The joy of snails....

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cheyennefb

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Last spring I bought a tiny itty bitty calico fantail goldfish (i know boring) from petsmart just because he was so darn cute. With-in a week i noticed one of my rocks moving... WTF ITS A SNAIL!!!.... there must have been an egg on my fish because i had no problem before. So I got rid of the snail, and went on vacation for a couple of weeks, while my friend fed my fish that i soon later named Gilbert. I came back and there were thousands upon thousands of snails in my 10 gallon tank. I took gilbert out, put him in a dif tank, and had to clean him off, and clean the tank. Needless to say within a month, the tank was filled of snails again....

Lesson to learn- Just buy some snail killer instead of washing it 500 times....

PS. Gilbert is fine and is now 9 inches long and weighs a whopping 7lbs.... hes a big guy....
 
thats funny that you asked cuz i was just trying to take pics of him.... i'm working on it, i dont have an underwater camera (thats a future investment though), so i'm trying to figure out to not get the glass relection
 
Take the picture when it is dark in the room w/only your tank lights on...use no flash. Or, if you must take it during the day with a flash, try angling the camera so the reflection bounces away from the lens.
 
awesome thank you!
 
I like the snails, free loach food.
 
I'm calling BS until I see the pic of your 9 inch 7 pound goldfish. That's the size of a honeydew, but denser- even if it is perfectly round.

As for the snails, I agree with ewurm.
 
If the goldfish was perfectly round, 9" in diameter and weighed 7lbs, it would have a density of 31.69 lbs/cubic foot. Fish meal has a density of 37 lbs/cubic foot and it is dry. Add water at 62.4 lbs/cubic foot, and you would get a higher density... so a 7lb fish at 9" is not out of the realm of possibility.

http://www.reade.com/Particle_Briefings/spec_gra2.html#N for fish meal density.
 
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