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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Are they 100% acrylic?
  2. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If it starts to suck stuff you don’t want it to, crimp the hose with your dry hand. That will stop the flow so whatever is in the tube will fall back out. I do this when I vac sand.
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    At 4:12 Irene says the dwarf lily is a very heavy feeder and she puts a ring of root tabs under it once a month.
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    Less than 10 minutes and she already cleaned this stuff! Her little chew marks, hehe ☺️ I would like for her to outcompete the limpets, and I’m confident she will.
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    Look at that lily go!
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    Meet Button, the newest recruit to the family. Button is a nerite snail (olive??). I think the black trim on her whorl is so pretty. She is going to help with tidying up the growout tank. There are plenty of algae noms in there for her. Even a little bit of green hair algae has started growing on one of the pots. She’s very spunky, and she tried to escape her bag during drip acc! Hard to drip acc something that doesn’t want to stay in the water! I will need to be extra careful with this one- checking all the lid gaps are sealed every day! She got a little shell rubbing in my own tank water, as I did with Dodger, to help ensure no nasties enter the tank. She was out the whole time I was handling her. Not a shy one at all.
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    I ended up not getting a barnacle bill, not because of the barnacles but because of shell health. The ones I inspected, the middle of their whorl was paper thin.
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    Interesting. But if I add salt any nerite eggs will hatch! I’m not sure if I’m ready for another snail-raising escapade!
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    If I adopt a nerite with living barnacles, what concerns should I have about that? I know the barnacles will die after a little while in fresh water but will nerite be ok otherwise? @Guppysnail
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    Put the mops in a breeder box for the time being.
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Can you provide any photos as well as your water parameters?
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    In my experience the newborn baby snails were seeking biofilm first.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Hey I just remember you use bacter ae. Isn’t that stuff made to create a biofilm? (You should rename this thread, like a journal.)
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    Finally decided to get the biowheel going again (the actual wheel). Older one ripped when I tried to clean debris off. But hey, it went strong for 11 years +. No complaints at all. Plus biowheels look cool. Anyway, what a pain to get the water flow just right to get it to spin. Quickly figured out there NEEDS to be a gap before the wheel. Also was trying to keep my gap in the back, so had to make the coarse sponge thinner. That was fun. Cutting coarse sponge and it springs back into shape and flicks tank water on my face. After my shower too! 😐 Anyway, made a gap with the ceramics but the water would gradually push the sponge and floss toward the wheel anyway and wheel would stop. I think I got it resolved now. I needed to make 2 coarse sponge “spacers”. Filter maintenance. Heh. My most loathed thing. 🫤
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    I don’t know that I’d want to soften it @Fish Folk. The tetras and the snails in there are benefitting from hard water.
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    The couple with the 120 gallon are coming by again today. At first they wanted 6 snails and then after a few minutes they messaged again to ask if I have 10. I do. 18 was the last count. Boy is the tank going to be bare! 🥲But I know these guys boil the veggies and spoil the snails, so that’s ok. Some of my snails are still small! I wonder if that is because they were having trouble competing against the big ones (some are nickel sized or bigger) for food. For example, look at this big chonker! I will continue to raise the small ones and take down my ads. Look who is at the food dish today, eating the scraps! I almost didn’t see him; he blends in! The anacharis I put in the tank is making neat hanging roots. I like it. Also the snails reach for them and slurp them like spaghetti. 🙂 See all the algae back there? That’s a limpet buffet. I see a nerite in my near future. 🙂 York has laid clutch 14 and is now taking a nap on the front glass. Lastly, Tony advises everyone the correct way to spend their Sunday. That’s all for now!
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You will love your snail! They are mesmerizing to watch (and sometimes just plain silly).
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Nope. I think it rotted. But it was in bad condition initially.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Keep it in the dark, weigh the stuff down so it is fully submerged, and don’t put a lid on the container. I usually do 16 hours but that’s because that’s what works with my schedule.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    She eats baby brine shrimp and Xtreme Krill flakes, and Hikari Gold sinking cichlid pellets. We were talking about substrate color the other day, how the lighter substrate might be muting her colors? I have hard water.
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    I think it may be too deep? You should be able to see the part where the plant meets the roots above the substrate. More info here
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    I tried reverse respiration on a bunch of my plants. In the last few posts you may have noticed the brown diatoms on the ludwigia. Here’s the after pics. And a bonus pic of Dodger the snail. ☺️
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    Before I bought the ram I looked at 2:59 in this video.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The water sprite should not be all the way in the substrate; make sure to leave the crown out. If you see an area where the leaves connect to the roots, that should not be buried. Or you can float it.
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