Any fishkeepers here? Saltwater or freshwater

[Baby Lee]

"Keep a clean tank"
- A. Sipowicz

That's all I got.

[Silock]

Lame! Might just have to buy an assassin snail if things get too out of control. Based upon the number of eggs I removed, I see this becoming a problem very quickly.

[Silock]

Well, water params are 0 amm, 0 trite, 0 trate. Either my plants are eating all the nitrate, or the cycle has completely restarted and the filter is bunk. Not sure what to think at the moment, although the filter has been up for 3 days and there's been zero spike of anything with a snail, pleco and betta in the tank. You'd think they'd be kicking up some kind of ammonia by now, especially since the snail by itself in the quarantine tank kicked up 3 ppm of ammonia in 12 hours by himself.

[Silock]

Still zeros across the board. It seems that the product worked?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Silock

Still zeros across the board. It seems that the product worked?

I would think yes. If it wasn't working, you'd see at least some ammonia.

I'd say it's likely that your fish aren't producing enough waste and the plants are completely depleting your tank.

[KS Smitty]

Speaking of snails...we have a pair of Apple Snails that have laid eggs twice but neither batch has hatched. They lay their eggs above the water level and we have made sure that when doing water changes/adding water (this time of year we get a lot of evaporation) that they remain above the water level but no babies. Is there something we're doing wrong?

We have a yoyo loach in our 49g tall tank and even though he does pig out on the flakes that we feed the other fish in the tank he still loves to dig around in the gravel and eat the ramshorn snails too.

An easy way to trap unwanted snails is to use a plastic soda/water bottle with an algae wafer in it, the snails will crawl into it (maybe some fish too) and you just take it out and let them dry out, or crush them and feed them back to the fishies.

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by KS Smitty

Speaking of snails...we have a pair of Apple Snails that have laid eggs twice but neither batch has hatched. They lay their eggs above the water level and we have made sure that when doing water changes/adding water (this time of year we get a lot of evaporation) that they remain above the water level but no babies. Is there something we're doing wrong?

We have a yoyo loach in our 49g tall tank and even though he does pig out on the flakes that we feed the other fish in the tank he still loves to dig around in the gravel and eat the ramshorn snails too.

An easy way to trap unwanted snails is to use a plastic soda/water bottle with an algae wafer in it, the snails will crawl into it (maybe some fish too) and you just take it out and let them dry out, or crush them and feed them back to the fishies.

That's great advice w/ the container/algae wafer. I have 100's of pond snails in my 5g Red Cherry Shrimp tank. When they start to get out of hand, I do the container/algae wafer trick. I then float the container in my 55g and release a few each day for my Clown Loaches, (I now have 3-picked up 2 little ones last weekend).

I actually like the pond snails, (they're fun to watch), but can reproduce very quickly. In the Spring, I place a bunch of them in my pond and they keep the algae down quite a bit.

[Mr_Tomahawk]

Fish?

Here are a couple of Blood Pythons...

[booger]

Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk

Fish?

Here are a couple of Blood Pythons...

beautiful looking snakes dude! I remember talking with ya a couple years back when I was contemplating getting a ball python. Never did get one but might down the road. How big those blood pythons get?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by KS Smitty

Speaking of snails...we have a pair of Apple Snails that have laid eggs twice but neither batch has hatched. They lay their eggs above the water level and we have made sure that when doing water changes/adding water (this time of year we get a lot of evaporation) that they remain above the water level but no babies. Is there something we're doing wrong?

Some apple/mystery snails are sterile, meaning they'll lay eggs but they'll never hatch.

Originally Posted by KS Smitty

We have a yoyo loach in our 49g tall tank and even though he does pig out on the flakes that we feed the other fish in the tank he still loves to dig around in the gravel and eat the ramshorn snails too.

My daughter's yoyo loach isn't interested at snails at all anymore. She added 2 more loaches (not specifically for snail control, thankfully) but they are Kuhli's and they don't touch snails.

Originally Posted by KS Smitty

An easy way to trap unwanted snails is to use a plastic soda/water bottle with an algae wafer in it, the snails will crawl into it (maybe some fish too) and you just take it out and let them dry out, or crush them and feed them back to the fishies.

The problem is with the plastic bottle method is that it simply won't work in a small tank - there's nowhere to put one in my daughter's 14G tank.

My salt shaker trap I made is much, much smaller. The most snails I've captured at once with it is about 30.

[KS Smitty]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Some apple/mystery snails are sterile, meaning they'll lay eggs but they'll never hatch.



My daughter's yoyo loach isn't interested at snails at all anymore. She added 2 more loaches (not specifically for snail control, thankfully) but they are Kuhli's and they don't touch snails.



The problem is with the plastic bottle method is that it simply won't work in a small tank - there's nowhere to put one in my daughter's 14G tank.

My salt shaker trap I made is much, much smaller. The most snails I've captured at once with it is about 30.

I didn't realize snails could be sterile. hmm
Your salt shaker trap is a good innovation for a smaller tank. You seem to be pretty good at home-made equipment that actually works!

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by KS Smitty

I didn't realize snails could be sterile. hmm
Your salt shaker trap is a good innovation for a smaller tank. You seem to be pretty good at home-made equipment that actually works!

I've made my own light fixtures, filters, and other things. It's kind of fun. I wish it was something I could make some money doing.

[htismaqe]

So I dropped almost $600 today on a pretty major upgrade...

I bought two 30W TMC GroBeam 1000 LED tiles. This isn't my tank but here's what 2 of them look like together.

[Silock]

Sweet!

Also, I keep meaning to ask:

Some of my plants' leaves are browning. Is that due to a lack of light or a lack of fertilizers? I do root tabs once a month, and Fluorish twice a week. Do I need to increase something?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Silock

Sweet!

Yeah, when it comes to total light output and proper plant-growing spectra, these are as good as it gets. SHO (super high output) CFL bulbs are the only thing really better but they're basically spiral CFL bulbs that are 10" long and 4" wide - not real space friendly. Studies have also shown that these LEDs inhibit algae and cyanobacteria growth because of the very precise wavelengths of light they produce. I'm really excited.

Originally Posted by Silock

Also, I keep meaning to ask:

Some of my plants' leaves are browning. Is that due to a lack of light or a lack of fertilizers? I do root tabs once a month, and Fluorish twice a week. Do I need to increase something?

Can you post a picture? It could be any number of things but more than likely it's a nutrient deficiency. Having a picture of the exact damage might be able to tell us what nutrient it is.