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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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On 6/24/2022 at 10:40 PM, Chrisanderson707 said:On 4/11/2022 at 12:18 PM, sweetpoison said:
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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On 6/24/2022 at 10:12 PM, Katherine said:
from my understanding those stay almost dust-like
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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On 6/23/2022 at 12:17 AM, A Moore said:
He is still marinating in catappa leaves and I added a tsp of salt
I think the dash of salt is a great idea. It helps with wound healing and stimulating slime coat.
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On 6/24/2022 at 9:01 PM, Brandon p said:
would be surprised if mystery snails would take care of that.
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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On 6/24/2022 at 5:04 PM, Guppysnail said:
Get a mother plant. I do then I have a house plant and unlimited number of tank plants. There are tons of videos on YouTube how to water propagate inch plants. It’s simple you just snip off a vine and jam it in the tank. Takes about a week to see tiny roots. The videos show how and where to snip and which leaves to remove to encourage roots.
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!
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I think your background looks nice @sweetpoison!
Pretty tank @Kaylish.
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It’s my understanding that snails can’t get ick but they can get other things.
They don’t do well in water that has fish meds or salt; some meds are fatal to them.
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The word got out that a zucchini was floating and a Friday night party started at the top of the box!
Also a little snail was taking a ride on a big snail.
And for as much as I fret about clutch 2, I seem to have snails of THREE different sizes? (And the limpets too.) Things might be hatching when I’m not aware or around. 🤨
I think they are running the show and they know what they’re doing.
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The zucchini floated but that didn’t stop anyone!
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They are little guys, huh? I like their shells. Looks kind of pearly. You could throw a piece of cuttlebone in there for them to eat. It will help with shell development.
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Got some sort of algae in the snail grow out tank. If only I had some way to remove it? 🐌
This tank is ready. I’m just not sure how old the snails should be before I move them. And I would not move any newborns. The first crew was born 6/8. What do you guys think? I will use 100% same tank water the day they get moved.
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On 5/29/2022 at 6:30 AM, Brian said:
Also are you trying this with a new plant
Plant was a couple months old and was doing well. Then it just turned brown, but the leaves were still rigid. They then started to deteriorate and cause ammonia, so I removed the dead leaves. Oddly enough, the dying plant produced a bunch of babies. This article says when the plant starts to die, it will do that. Pretty cool. It's like getting 10x my money's worth on 1 java fern.
Do you think there is a way I can glue to babies to the driftwood underwater? Or would I have to take the whole driftwood out (I'd rather not).
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Well, the babies don't like broccoli, but York was happy to have it. They don't like canned green beans either. 🤷♀️ I guess baby snails are picky. York has eaten everything I've offered her except for spinach.
When I checked on the babies yesterday afternoon, they had eaten pretty much everything I put in there in the morning (except the broccoli). In the morning I had added 2 algae wafers, a piece of calcium chip, 5 crab cuisine, and broccoli. So, in the afternoon I dropped in 5 more crab cuisine.
This morning I gave them 10 crab cuisine (the pellets are quite small) and a zucchini round which I know they like. And they still have their java moss. During breeder box cleanout I did find an empty shell. A tiny one. Bummer.
I do keep a small journal about how much they are eating so I know what quantity to feed because in the beginning I just had to guess.
Every day I marvel at how much the snails are growing. Often when I look at them in the afternoon I swear they are bigger than in the morning.
The rest of clutch 2 seems dormant. I'm disappointed. I hope it does something. I misted it. I don't know if that helps it or not. At least I got like 6 babies hatched out of it so far.
Also my HOB was not hardly working today! Barely a trickle and a film forming on top of the water. Clogged intake floss. So guess who was doing filter maintenance early in the morning before going to work? Heh.. not my favorite thing. Anyway, all I had to do was swap it out for coarse ACO prefilter sponge. I had planned to swap it anyway during the next water change because the floss looked ugly. I know finer sponge and floss is better for the baby snails, but it clogs too quickly. Much better now. I still think this sponge will be ok because even though it is coarse, it is quite thick.
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On 6/23/2022 at 4:03 PM, Torrey said:
They need you to offer them some veggies (see Guppysnail's journal) like blanched cucmber, blanched green bean (skin hulls, no seeds), blanched squash,blanched carrots. Give it 2 weeks, and your new growth will look better.
Mine like blanched zucchini quite a bit.
On 6/24/2022 at 9:00 AM, Mmiller2001 said:It also has no copper, which is a gimmick to sell to people who keep shrimp. Shrimp and plants need copper to live.
Be careful with "copper sulfate" though - it's my understanding copper sulfate is harmful to snails, if you want to keep the snails. Not sure how it affects shrimp.
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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.