Fish tank maintance

[Chickerdoodle13]

Sorry, double post!

 

[bantamamba]

Lots'a good advice. Agreed, do your research if you are contemplating loaches. Make sure you have the right species...and a large enough size tank. But it is not a generally recommended method of going about snail eradication.

When I had a snail problem (thank you Petsmart) I kept a teaspoon handy at all times. Whenever I saw a snail on the glass, I crushed it's shell with the spoon. Ew, I know. But it had to be done. Most of the carcasses were then removed (sometimes the fish would eat them, sometimes not). I also did a full tank scrubbing with heated water (left the filter alone, though...I didn't want to risk having the tank reset and cycle again). All inhabitants removed. Plants thrown out. New sand. Poof, no pond snails. Yay!

 

[EweSheep]

Good idea folks!

Tomorrow is the deed day! They will be food for the chickens! Escargot, my girls????? Butter or plain?

I just could not believe how many snails there are and found a few mating.....ugh!

We will keep the biggest and original ones. I know its tough to get rid of the plants but we want to keep them for the baby guppies and so forth.

We had ghost shrimps and all of them died. Bummer!

We had the water tested and it was doing just great!

 

[bantamamba]

Bummer about your shrimps. Can you give us the numbers from the test? How is your PH? Temperature?

Ghost shrimp can be very aggressive toward each other as well, so that might have had something to do with it. It is recommended to keep 1 ghost shrimp per gallon, with lower concentrations in smaller tanks (10g and lower).

 

[EweSheep]

We bought 6 shrimps. We took one out for the baby tank of two gallon tank for baby guppies. So the ones in the BIG tank all died. The remaining one is still alive in baby tank. We will move them out soon!

We have a 50 gallon tank.

I can not remember the numbers but the PH was on the low end of the chart they gave. No Ammonia. Auto heat element, cozy at 80 degrees (dont like that glass sticker tape on the outside of tank!)

Three of my grocery stores do not have any zuccinis so I may have to check with Wally World and see if they have any. One thing came the closest are the burpless English cukes, seedless. So the snails got another few days of reprevive but they will GO!