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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Finished RR on the anacharis. Some nice looking sprigs here. Before I did that I went a bit nuts looking for Nibbles. He’s so small. I could never RR him! Eventually found him on the airline tubing. Then I couldn’t find Button! He was on the lid. For those that haven’t been to my snail journal, here’s Nibbles and Button. Nibbles’ species is unknown. He came in on a plant. He sure is cute though. Button is an olive nerite snail. No more plastic plants and everyone still seems to be getting along well. For some reason the head-and-taillights didn’t eat from the frozen brine shrimp cube, but they did eagerly go for the Xtreme Krill flakes. Perhaps they didn’t want to feed in a tight pack with the others on the cube. The flakes spread out and they can feed from different areas. Or perhaps they don’t care for brine shrimp.
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    Fish folk put a tank in his closet. There’s always possibilities. Can’t the ram go with the cories? The ram is a bottom feeder though..
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    Yes, I think it works well.
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    What I did, when the snails were about chickpea sized, was I looked up where my local aquarium club holds meetings. Their meeting have fish/plant/snail etc auctions where hobbyists can buy from other hobbyists. Mine was 2 hrs away so instead I: -ran an ad in the little town paper. You can ask the library what the smaller newspaper is called if you’re not sure -posted an ad on the Nextdoor app. My responses came from the Nextdoor app actually, and local hobbyists adopted all my snails (I did keep a few). I liked it because I could give out care sheets, chunks of cuttlebone, and some crab cuisine to get the new snail parents started. I was also able to ask the interested parties what size their tanks are and if the tanks are cycled, etc. Below 40 would be better
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    Look at the cutest saltwater goby at the LFS doing his interior design.
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    Hmm, I think I used 20 lbs for a 10 gallon tank, and that gave me a 1" layer. Lots of people put dirt or plant-friendly substrate under the sand. In my case, I have one tank w/ bare bottom that I put the sand in, but my intention was just to use water column feeding plants like anubias and java fern. In my 29 gallon I put a 2" layer of sand on top of a layer of dirty gravel so the plant roots could reach down and feed off the stuff in the gravel. The space between the gravel also provided space for the plants roots to grow. I think I put 30 lbs of sand in there to create that layer because I had a 50 lb bag of sand. About 2/5 of the bag was left after I finished the 29 gallon project.
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    That's actually pretty cool.
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    Hooray! @Guppysnail got an upgrade!
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    I use pool filter sand. It's nice because when I vacuum the tank I can go into the sand a little bit to freshen it up and not too much comes up in the siphon. It's a heavier sand compared to some. I rinsed it in the bottle a bunch of times, just pouring off the dust each time and then added it using the mess free method.
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    I love that you said this @xXInkedPhoenixX. You have a really big heart.
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    @xXInkedPhoenixX I've seen something called a betta leaf. It's a fake leaf with a suction cup on it and it is for bettas that need to rest at the top of the tank (or middle, or wherever - off the bottom). Maybe the ones that have swimming difficulty could benefit from a betta leaf. They are super cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Med-Laboratories-AZMBL20-Hammock/dp/B0027IZ6KW
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    @xXInkedPhoenixX this is a lovely thing you are doing for them. 😍 One big box store near me does a poor job with their betta section. Another big box has each betta in a glass container with NO lid, each with a nice-sized piece of hornwort. The ones in the glass with the live plant, although it's the same size container, appear MUCH healthier than the tupperware ones. Agreed. My least favorite fishes, @nabokovfan87.
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    @DaPrawf help us solve this mystery and taste it to see if it tastes like cheese. (This is purely for scientific purposes)
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    @Guppysnail
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    Some people put their aquatics plants into terra cotta pots. That way they can add a substrate to the pot for the plant without having to change their existing substrate.
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    After all the meds are out of the water. Once you are done with treatment (which you may need to repeat, depending on symptoms) you can run carbon in your filter to remove the medication from the water, as well as performing several water changes over the course of a few days.
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    It will go back to normal, but it will take time. It will fade little by little, similar to how if you have a wound, it becomes a scab, then becomes a lighter patch of skin, etc. My fish went through the same thing this year. The journal is in my signature line. I too misdiagnosed in the beginning but ended up at the Jungle Fungus and Kanaplex treatment, and it worked well.
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    It is fine to leave the salt in there. It's better for him actually. Helps him with electrolytes and slime coat as he goes through the treatment. However, I would not increase the salt level at this time as doing so would increase stress, and so will meds. You will also want to make sure he has an extra airstone if at all possible, as medications in the water reduce oxygen. If you have any shrimp or snails, you must remove them before medicating; they cannot tolerate meds. Here's a helpful article about salt use. This article uses Tbsp instead of tsp though, so you are in between a level 2 and level 3 salt right now. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-salt-for-sick-fish Keep an eye on your ammonia level because adding salt will slow the bacteria on your filter, but not to worry- they will spring back in a few days. If you do have ammonia, you can add something to the water that makes the ammonia non-toxic, such as Prime (just until you complete treatment). With Prime, you'd need to dose it every day. Of course, the proper way to remove ammonia is through water changes, but then that would also remove the meds, so this is the workaround I have found that is successful when treating sick fish. This is the plan I followed for the medications:
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    pics?
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    If you can add a Wondershell on as well, that could be helpful. (You only need to put a chunk in the 5gal, not the whole shell.)
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    For my one clutch I used a 10g tank. It worked well, but when they got bigger (chickpea sized) I was doing water changes twice a day. You have multiple clutches, so I wondered if you were spreading them out across tanks.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I thought in the beginning I had a red worm known as a camullanus worm. It was at that point they had paracleanse. That was weeks ago, and I haven't seen any since. Thanks so much @nabokovfan87, always willing to lend a hand. 🥰 And no, parasites are not the issue; we are looking at columnaris again which is bacterial. I ran it by Colu without suggesting what I thought it was, and they believe it is columnaris. I will follow the treatment I used for Pippin, which is a combo of Jungle Fungus fizz tabs and kanaplex. They are on day 3 now, so they will get a water change tonight along with their doses. The treatment is only 5 days. They are active and show promise, and this case is much milder than what Pippin and his friend (brother? Merry?) had. 🙂 Is the schedule specific to parasites/worms or is it for all diseases? Also, the head-and-taillight tetras are growing on me, and so far I see no conflict at all even though there are only 2. I see why they are called that. The light catches their headlight and their taillight and they really do shine like little lights! I can't capture the effect on video, but if you see some in the LFS, take a look at them for a few. When they turn certain directions, their lights shine. 💡 Maybe you can kind of see it in this video (not my video), especially the fish on the right that are leading the pack and go in front of the black background.
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    I'm excited. Also @BAT, do you have any pics of the parents? What is your setup for growout tanks? Number of tanks? Number of gallons? These snails get sizeable, you know. The powdery foods and the snail waste could cause a cycle crash in smaller tanks, so you'll want to test ammonia EVERY day, and water change based on test results.
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    How do you guys cut your acrylic sheets? We had bad luck with power tools. The acrylic broke and we ended up with shards.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    It’s the walls of the eggs getting thinner because they are chewing on them. That’s why the eggs look dark. The snails are showing through.
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