The joy of snails....
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I'm against your suggestion to use a fish to do the job. Consider the adult size of the fish, tankmates, tank size and future plans before you suggest a fish. Clowns can reach 12 inches eventually even if others insist they are slow growers. In the end, we as aquarists should be responsible for whatever fish we buy. Once we buy them, they fall under our responsibility and must be given the best care we can provide, not sell or trade off repeatedly because their purpose to be there was done.Hawaii Predator;1866169; said:
I had the same problem with snails. They came in on plants I had bought and over took my tank. Couldn't get rid of them even when I took the tank completly apart my filter aerator everything I even boiled the rocks. Guess they survived in the water I had to keep, dunno know. Starter buying predators, keeps the population in check espeacially my lepard leaf fish.
You could always get a nice big handful, put them in a flat rate box (in a bag of water of course, and maybe some veggies for them) and send them to people who need them.
I set up my 55 glass with plants, and let the snails do their thing alone for a month to be sure I would have a nice, established tank. There were several at that point, but they keep the algae from covering the plants. I dislike any chemicals in my tanks at all, unless I absolutely can't avoid it. The dumpwater can be very pulluting to the water supply/ground water for no reason. Esp if you are fanatical about having clean tanks as I am.
I ended up with two "eartheater" ciclids (imagie a convict on greyscale, that's it...I don't know the name as they're new and I never saw them in any fish book I have).
Everything, as we all know, has a downside. Ciclids of the eartheater variety are not as sweet with other fish as every book on them tells you. They like to be bullies, and the only ones worse are the dwarf gouramis. I have two of the former, and two of the latter, and they love to be jackasses at any chance.
This is in a 55 with two red whiptail cats (which I love--very nice fish, but you have to make sure they eat by hand-feeding, as both former fish are pigs), four glowlights, pair of swordtails, and my other faves, two peacock gobies--who really can't hang with the boisterous others, I plan to move them very soon. So they have plenty of room.
I did the "new fish" acclimating, ie change the decor around, shut off the lights, feed everyone, and so on...nope.
There's also two fry nets...one 2 month old guppy I saved from the petstore a few days old, and 13 new guppies in a fry crib, and then the swords spawned from all the brine shrimp. Weaker fry are not immune from getting bit through the net from the dwarfs, either. if the sit on the bottom of the net.
So, I need to allow my new bigger tank to finish blowing dust around, as the screen for the fry gets clogged very fast and stops the filter. I plan to try a filter cover, as nutmeat rags seem to be the right thinness, but get clogged almost immediately.
I ended up with two "eartheater" ciclids (imagie a convict on greyscale, that's it...I don't know the name as they're new and I never saw them in any fish book I have).
Everything, as we all know, has a downside. Ciclids of the eartheater variety are not as sweet with other fish as every book on them tells you. They like to be bullies, and the only ones worse are the dwarf gouramis. I have two of the former, and two of the latter, and they love to be jackasses at any chance.
This is in a 55 with two red whiptail cats (which I love--very nice fish, but you have to make sure they eat by hand-feeding, as both former fish are pigs), four glowlights, pair of swordtails, and my other faves, two peacock gobies--who really can't hang with the boisterous others, I plan to move them very soon. So they have plenty of room.
I did the "new fish" acclimating, ie change the decor around, shut off the lights, feed everyone, and so on...nope.
There's also two fry nets...one 2 month old guppy I saved from the petstore a few days old, and 13 new guppies in a fry crib, and then the swords spawned from all the brine shrimp. Weaker fry are not immune from getting bit through the net from the dwarfs, either. if the sit on the bottom of the net.
So, I need to allow my new bigger tank to finish blowing dust around, as the screen for the fry gets clogged very fast and stops the filter. I plan to try a filter cover, as nutmeat rags seem to be the right thinness, but get clogged almost immediately.
sweet, could we gat a real picture of the fish? this thing sounds pretty big, how long did it take for you to grow it out?likestofish;1497971; said:I got a picture of the gold fish
Grimpatches14;2343500; said:
She doesn't have any fish that large. For a petstore sized fancy goldie to get to 9" in year isn't possible.
Druu;2355630; said:
alright, that sounds more truthful, i cant really imagine a fancy ever getting to be 9" long anyways
