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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Sorry to be redundant. 🙃 Just wanted to stress the importance of this one again as water quality is the most important thing for baby snails, and without flow through the box, it could.. well the outcome would be grim as baby snails are super sensitive to parameters. Yeah she’s great, isn’t she? She has a fun and silly personality.
  2. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The 2 black neons with columnaris completed their treatment and I started the first water change last night to remove meds. The dye in the Jungle Fungus fizz tabs was so dark I could hardly see them. But each day when I swirled a test strip they both came up to it. They are also eating good.
  3. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The water sprite always has a snail in it. Goliath has reached a high point. Annnnd is somehow taking a nap on one blade of grass. (well, Christmas moss)
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You will find your Bolivians. You’re on a mission. When I bought Snoopy he was in an unlabeled tank, but I recognized him as a Bolivian after watching Prime Time’s vids a bunch of times. Big box didn’t know how to ID Snoopy or ring him up, so they rang him up as a red ram. (??) I didn’t care, it was about the price I expected. Before that, At another store I asked for Bolivian Ram and they tried to give me GBR and I stopped them and said, nope. That ain’t the one. The body shape is the same so sellers mix them up. At least you got a video beforehand.
  5. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’m sorry 😞
  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail check out @xXInkedPhoenixX Bolivian Ram. His name is Punk.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail those are not Bolivians. See their red eyes? Bolivian rams do not have red eyes. Snoopy
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Well I can’t help. Because I only know how 1 ram does. Snoopy gets along well with community fish but I’ve seen him get angry if he’s trying to defend sinking food from a greedy school; he runs everyone away (except snails. He likes snails.) Prime Time says they also defend their area if they have spawned.
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh they lived together? That’s awesome! Can’t wait to follow along.
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    It looks like half moon has a lump on his side? I’m hoping crown tail does not have columnaris. Here’s photos of my 2 when they had it. The remedy is a combo of Kanaplex and Jungle Fungus clear fizz tabs.
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The adult snails can smell the food.
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Do you think the worm treatments somehow caused the algae?
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You may want to get 3 because with just 2 @redfish and @flyingcow had disputes.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    See how courteous he is toward snails? He’s a good fella.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I love your journal so much @xXInkedPhoenixX My ram Snoopy does the pacing at the front in the morning as well. He also gets in front of the camera at every opportunity.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The new tank looks great and I love the guppysnail grass.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Somebody photobombed that first pic. 😺🐟
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I see it. The opposing team is way outnumbered and clearly the purple thing in the middle is the goal post and the 2 orange things on the right are fans with their arms up in the air, cheering on the stars of the field. And if you take into account the A that is near them it spells yay.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The females can hold fertilized eggs for months. I only had one adult snail as well when I hatched eggs. If you get the breeder box with the lid, you won't have to worry about the big ones eating up all the baby food.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    We need a pic of Sailor when he's out & about. 🙂
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh yes. They love live plants! Great source of biofilm. I offered mine java moss and lots of them attached to it.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Congratulations on your babies! You are going to love them. As they grow and you can see them better, you'll notice they have little personalities and do funny stuff. One other thing I'd recommend is having an actual breeder box as the specimen box does not allow for water flow. Water flow is very important so that the box doesn't fill with ammonia from the food and waste. Breeder boxes are very cheap. Several options are less than ten bucks.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You'll want to crumble the rest of that clutch as the snails inside are already full developed. Once some start hatching, that means everybody is ready, even if they haven't chewed out yet. Follow this video on how to crumble the clutch. The reason for crumbling is because some eggs may be harder than others (mostly due to humidity inconsistency across the clutch) and the snails CAN'T get out if the eggshells are too hard/thick. Here is a guide on how to maintain the breeder box. You'll want to feed powdery foods that you can swirl around in the breeder box to coat the walls. Some popular choices for this are repashy powder or spirulina. Some people use fry food. Careful with the quantity of food so you don't pollute too much. You can wet a bamboo skewer and dip it into the powdered food and then swirl it. Repeat until it looks like all snails will have enough food. A less popular choice to feed them is hardboiled egg yolk. It's great for them starting out, but it does foul the water. It is what I used, and I had success with it. You just have to test your water parameters every day to make sure everything stays stable.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    So that’s what they mean by a balanced tank. Lol I mean, the algae is filtering your water and stuff, providing oxygen. At least there are some pros to it, even if it’s unsightly. Have you tried the peroxide method?
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Well if you can’t grow anything else well, at least you can say you grow algae well. 😉
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