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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Hi! I have a mystery snail egg journal. The link is in my signature line below. It was my first time hatching the eggs, and I did it and I think it’s cool! Mine hatched on 6/8 and I have another clutch that has been hatching a snail here & there. My egg journal shows everything I did to hatch the eggs and afterwards the snails can be sold to the local fish store.
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    The thought actually crossed my mind, but then I felt weird about it: feeding undeveloped snails back to snails. That’s truly like the movie Soylent Green! 😳 They do chew out of their eggs though. And it’s recommended to keep the hatched clutched with them after birth, and they consume it. 🤔
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    Wow, 25! (25 clutches or 25 snails?) It can get overwhelming pretty quickly with all the egg laying. I freeze the clutches that I’m not equipped to hatch. I do it as soon as they are laid. I had 5 clutches but chose to hatch 2.
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    Today I made the Repashy Snello recipe, using the first recipe. Just had to boil some water & mix! It was easy to slice into little cubes and the fishies like it. York tried to bust into the breeder box to get some, so I placed her on her own special Snello cube. See the previous post? She laid eggs again this morning! How many eggs can this snail make?! 😱 I thought she was going to lay more because she spent some time cruising around above the water and in some spots she “swelled” and I thought I might see the process, but then she smelled Repashy and her priorities changed. 😂 Cory recommended storing the unused Repashy powder in the fridge. I froze most of the Snello and will take a little out at a time as needed.
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    This is my tank maintenance supervisor. Her name is Mouse! She is up in her usual watch post.
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    eBay! 🐌 ⚠️
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    The dedicated jar is cool @Torrey!
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    The Anubia on the right side of the tank melted! I think there is one puny leaf left on it. Most plants spring back, so I left the roots with leaf in there and removed the dead stuff. Also I believe the algae is from the plants being too small to use up all of the Easy Green. The water change would have diluted some of the Easy Green, so that should help. I am embracing the algae though. It means the tank is alive and algae does a great job at controlling nitrates.
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    Did a water change on the 10 gallon today. Parameters are looking good. I plan to wait a little while more to be sure before the baby snails will be moved in. Got some algae going on in there. I wonder if snails will eat it. Lights off today.
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    Some goodies came in the mail today! A fun sign and ingredients for a snail food recipe. Plus a cuttlebone and some more calcium chips. There are 2 recipes that I can choose from. I plan to make the first recipe. For these recipes the ratio is 1 part Repashy powder to 2.5 parts water. Storage: refrigerate 2 weeks or freeze 6 months. (If freezing, recipe can be made as a flat sheet and stored in a Ziplock, then chunks can be easily snapped off as needed). I also recently watched a Cory video where he made Repashy and before it set he dipped things into it to coat them (ie: a coconut hut, a pleco cave, a piece of PVC pipe). Then after it set, he put the items in the tank for the fish to graze on. I may try this with a small ceramic ring that came with a plant. Right now I’m using the ring to weigh down zucchini in the breeder box. 🙂
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    I just want to say thank you for what you're doing @Woogie23. Did you boil the lettuce first? Might have been too crunchy for them?
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    You could take the background you have now and you could do packaging tape along the top of it so that water can't get in. And do the same for the sides.
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    Eh just leave the rocks as they are. The driftwood is not gonna float forever; it's just like this temporarily. Remember @sweetpoison, things don't have to be perfect! Allow yourself some room for error. Look at how great the other stuff looks. Work on some other stuff in the meantime, like the ammonia. While you're doing that, the driftwood is absorbing water. You're doing awesome!
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    I use the black "by the foot" backgrounds from petco I use those too. I just scotch tape a little around the sides and it holds. Can’t really see the tape, honestly.
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    Oh that’s what diatoms are? I think I already went through the diatom stage in the days after I squished the filter stuff into the tank. Or it was just bits of filter media gunk laying on stuff. I wanted to remove some of that brown from the sand yesterday, and I thought that was the diatoms still, but it wasn’t. What lays on the sand now is the stuff like the heater has. It is kind of “ gripping” the sand. I plan to keep the light off today.
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    I think the dash of salt is a great idea. It helps with wound healing and stimulating slime coat.
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    Yeah I’m not really sure? I am also not sure what kind of algae it is, whether it’s hair algae or brown diatoms or something else. I’m really not good with plant ID.
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    These are fish tank safe? Really?
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    I’m late to this thread, sorry! I think going from an 8 pH to a 7 pH would be a big shock?
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    Is the plant with the purple on the leaves a wandering jew plant? I think I have one in my backyard that I used to have in a pot!
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    Check this out for cycling with plants!
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    Woohoo! Lookin good @sweetpoison! Can’t wait to see the new scaping soon!
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I think your background looks nice @sweetpoison! Pretty tank @Kaylish.
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