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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Brine shrimp treat. Watch at very end for tetra mating dance!
  2. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That's what I was thinking too about food removal, @Guppysnail. And I also had a thought that since I'm siphoning things out with the irrigation syringe, maybe I can also siphon new food in with it. That way I have more control over quantity fed and I can keep track of it. What I added yesterday was half of an egg yolk, so I know it's definitely less than that. I also siphoned out a lot of the Snello. The Snello was the size of a square ice cube. @Guppysnail these guys ARE going to a grow out tank, but the sponge filter is not ready yet; it's been seeding since 6/1 in the main tank here. I want it to seed for one month. However, when it is ready, I am putting the sponge filter into the 10gal, and ALL OF THE 10 gallon water will be directly from the 29-gallon that same day. I have been giving some thought about testing the sponge filter prior to snail transfer. I want to stress the sponge filter. To do this, I will put a small chunk of raw fish or shrimp from the grocery store into the tank to let it rot. I would like to see if ammonia spikes and a cycle happens. After this process though, a complete drain out. Then 29-gallon water, then snails. I think doing this is better than having something bad happen with parameters once the snails are in that tank. @Guppysnail have you used a net breeder or a plastic breeder in the past with your snails?
  3. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Keeping breeder box secure in corner with heater suction cups Keeping breeder box secure in corner with heater suction cups
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    How many of you forgot about clutch 2? 😉 I siphoned some food out of the breeder box. I way overfed. Some people say they clean the breeder box once a week, but I don’t feel comfortable leaving food in there that long. Wouldn’t it foul the water? Anyway, here’s all the garbage I siphoned out with the syringe. (2 snails went for a ride and were safely returned.) And here is the breeder box after. A snow globe hot mess. Look for the gang climbing the walls. They are a little darker than the egg. Mostly everyone is on the walls eating the egg dust.
  5. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Good morning! Daily check of clutch 2.
  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Fish are picking at the hard boiled egg yolk dust that fell into the foot of the pantyhose!
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’m happy to report that the snails are eating the hard boiled egg yolk! Also as an added bonus, when I added it, it turned the breeder box into a “snow globe” and coated the walls. I have about 31 snails on the walls and 3 on the bottom, so wall coating food is good. It looks nasty but it benefits them. I definitely put too much but will try to measure better next time as I get to know them. 🙂
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yep, my 10 gallon leaked and I had to move everyone to a tote recently. It worked well though.
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @xXInkedPhoenixXoh wow yeah, super swollen. Does she act territorial and chase others away?
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Odd Duck thanks for responding so quickly. Her territorialism does make a lot of sense if she is holding eggs. Let’s see if she can find some romance. Actually whenever I feed brine shrimp everybody likes to get busy. I should try that now that she has a school again. I should also note that it wasn’t my intention for her to be alone for a few months but there had been an ick situation that wiped out her school.
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I saw something else that says it could resolve by adding males. I just added 4 of her species, so maybe this could work itself out.
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    There is something called gill disease which may be worth researching. It’s normally treated with Maracyn Two (different from Maracyn).
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    What can be done for egg binding? She eats like a hog too.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The fish eats eagerly and heartily
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    For years I’ve had this fish and over time the fish has become more swollen in the belly. It has been the only black neon in the tank and schools with pristella tetra. I thought maybe it mated with one of them, but now I’m not so sure because the swelling has not gone down. The fish stays at mid level, looks right at me and “treads water” by flapping its side fins. It also opens & closes it’s mouth while doing this (like it’s saying blub blub blub). It does not look like gasping or struggling for air. More like it’s chatting. It has begun to act territorial and chases away other fish that approach it. Then it schools as normal without the mouth movements. It alternates between treading water, chasing, and schooling. Illness? or behavior? Other black neons in the photo were just added yesterday, but the swelling and behavior are ongoing. Ph 7.5 temp 81 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 10 80/180 for gh and kh- I’m not sure I listed those two in the right order, I don’t have the test kit in front of me
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Is the fish flashing, darting, and rapid swimming or is it hiding, sluggish, not eating?
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I thought of something else. If you are just using coarse sponge in your HOB and your sponge filter, you may want to add filter floss to it also. I found that coarse only was not enough to keep my water clear. This is the stuff I use, in addition to my coarse sponge.
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I used pool filter sand in mine. I'm not too good with the different types of sand, but I've heard that in general it just take time for the cloudiness to resolve itself.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    What type of sand did you use?
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    On today’s menu we have hard boiled egg yolk and Snello since yesterday’s menu was not popular. I also added a little more Java moss since some of them liked it. I removed the unpopular algae wafers and cichlid pellet by using a syringe. Anything I sucked out was inspected in this dish to ensure no snails went along for the ride. I also did a 1 cup “water change” for the breeder box. Used syringe for that too, high up in the middle box of the box away from everyone. New tank water automatically comes back in through the slats. I’m OCD about water quality.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Are you sure? Because @Fish Folk used his closet space for a guppy tank! You don't have a spare closet? 🤪
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That's awesome! I have a lot of work to do. Getting my husband to watch snails hatching was out of the question. He's a gamer and prefers to absorb himself in that instead. (I did text him a photo of a baby snail though. I couldn't help myself.) However, when I scaped the tank (changed from gravel to sand, added driftwood & live plants) he did walk up to it and say, the tank looks pretty good! Also when I got the Bolivian Ram and added him to quarantine, I got hubby to come and see him. So he's not a complete lost cause? LOL
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Garden snail that visited while eggs were hatching.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    When I got home yesterday I saw things in the breeder box which I believe were slugs. They were moving but didn’t look like what I observed hatching later. I put a paper towel under the breeder box to try to get a pic to focus.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If I am really bored and can’t find ANYTHING else to do, I will remove calcium deposits from my hood. 😝
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