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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Guys my shrimp tank needed help! Even the silicone is growing algae. Light reduction helped a little, but not enough. Many days over the past month or so the light was kept off. This gal sure ain’t toothy enough to get the job done. Also she made a baby (hatched from egg) which I can’t find half the time. Limpets and MTS haven’t made a dent in this either. So here we have Shiva! Thanks to @Guppysnail for the name. I collected name suggestions when I adopted Kratos. Kratos name was chosen by a neutral 3rd party, and I kept this name in mind for the next nerite. Shiva is a young olive nerite. He will be having the feast of kings once he learns his way around.
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    I had to revamp this tank. The huge rocks were just monopolizing the swimming space, and it didn’t seem like the fish were comfortable. It is only 5.5gal. Before & after Geppetto got a new tunnel as well which he loves.
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    https://aquariumshrimpkeeping.com/how-to-treat-scutariella-japonica/ I followed these instructions for the No Planaria method.
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    The day has come. My oldest snail Romeo has finally passed. Romeo was sent to me, along with his siblings, by @Guppysnail. She hatched him in October 2022. I found some pics from his childhood. This could be him or a sibling, not sure. This was the day my snail mail arrived. I carefully placed everybody at their welcome gift. Aren’t they gorgeous!!! Romeo was first to explore. He had a white foot and everyone else had a peachy foot. Also Romeo had freckles. Here he had a bit of a growth spurt. He was notorious for falling asleep on his girlfriends and they had to haul him around the tank for 2-3 hours. What can I say? He liked to snuggle afterwards. 💜 And here’s just a little video of how arrogant he was. LOL! That’s a nerite he’s monster trucking over. But he was a joy to have. He reached 16 months old. Wow! He long outlived his siblings. Perhaps due to the “exercise” he was getting? But he was also the fastest mystery snail and would be bookin it across the tank on a regular basis, just doin his laps.
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    I resolved it with No Planaria. Note: No Planaria is not snail safe! I moved my snails out before treatment. Also it will be awhile before you can return them. P.S. Tried salt dips. Found them ineffective and extremely stressful for me and for the shrimps. Also I had tried Prazi Pro: didn’t work.
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    Sometimes midwater. Never from the surface. I use a tube to drop food to the ram.
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    Flint cozying up to Hampshire
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    One Bolivian ram makes for a nice peaceful community fish. Some folks that got 2 Bolivian rams reported they fight; one will chase the other relentlessly until it gets stressed and starts to starve. Not sure what the magic number of Bolivian rams is. Ask @Guppysnail or @knee @xXInkedPhoenixX is the only one I’ve seen so far to keep 2 together for any decent length of time, but I believe she ultimately separated them because she “wasn’t sure” if one was picking on the other while she wasn’t looking(?) Bolivian rams are less colorful than other fish, but they win for personality. They will interact with you similar to how a betta would.
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    Wow! Look at it go! Aqueon lids.. ugh! ☹️
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Looks similar to the pregnant molly in this video
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    Welcome!
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    Great news! With just 2 days of ich x and salt, the dot on his head is gone. While I don’t think it was ich (because the dots didn’t multiply), the Fritz disease chart recommends an ich med for like 3 different diseases that have dots as symptoms, so I felt I had a good chance of success going this course.
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    Floating plants don’t like glass or acrylic lids but they do ok with an eggcrate lid. However there will be more evaporation and top offs.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The spot on Geppetto’s head was not improving, nor was it getting any worse. The treatment was salt and catappa. After a few days of monitoring and moving the shrimps out, I started him on ich-x. Here was yesterday: And here is today, much improved P.S. 3rd photo looks like a bunch of spots, but those are not on him. Those are limpets on the glass and some particulates in the water.
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    Since Geppetto has been having a violent streak this week, I made the executive decision to evict his tenants. They are now in shrimp paradise and can enjoy the latest and greatest goodies from my Crayfish Empire shipment such as soybean pellets and dragonfruit sticks, bee pollen sticks, beetroot sticks, etc.
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    How’s our boy Punk doin?
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    Shrimps vs dragonfruit stick
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    Update to original post: after the 2 phased approach I rinsed the snail in tank water, then submerged him in a cup of tank water. I observed for 2 hours (this was DIFFICULT; I kept worrying I’d see movement or a feeler pop out, etc. every time I went to check). However, that did not occur and I was able to confirm the process was effective.
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    Taco Bell?
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    I might have to split the cultures again; there are so many!
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    If you are a snail lover, you may want to click away. If you keep snails, you may want to read this. My mystery snail has been noticeably sick. It has not been able or willing to release air, and it has not eaten or moved in about 4 days. I have situated it on top of leaves from overgrown plants that are so tall they lay on the water’s surface. Every day I’ve been checking on it and trying to hand feed, to no avail. Today I checked on it and it has lost 25% of body mass (I can see gaps around its body in the shell). It is moving, barely. When I see a loss of body mass like this, I know the snail is at the end of its life. I have used clove oil in the past on snails, but the snails I knew were already dead - I was just going through extra precautionary measures. But this snail has “some” life in it, albeit very poor quality life. I began to look up some information again on the use of clove oil for snails. I found conflicting information. Some claim it sedates the snail. Others claim it kills the snail. Here is a paper I found on euthanasia of land snails. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5029829/ While it does not specifically mention clove oil, it does provide the results of several experiments. For one, beer. Beer was used to attempt euthanasia of snails, and snails gave no response afterward when poked with a needle. However, after a rinse in Ro water and being left alone, the snails began moving around after a period of time! “All snails recovered within 2 h and climbed out of the culture dish” So, that’s one example of a failed experiment. A successful experiment, well two of them, used ethanol 70% and ethanol 95%. The snails did not recover after being transferred out. Hence, my little guy in the clove oil solution, while I researched further was floating, floating.. I left him there 1 hour. I ran out to buy the 70% ethanol - I got 70% Ethyl Rubbing Alcohol for this purpose. When I transferred my little friend from the clove oil solution, he was hanging out of the shell and had produced mucus. During his time in the clove oil, he defecated as well, not right away but at some point during that hour. I returned from the store with the ethanol and placed him in a condiment cup then submerged him in the 70% ethanol. It was not until this stage that he released all the air he was holding, and he sank. Therefore, I am convinced that clove oil alone does NOT kill snails. It may look like it does, but I believe it is ONLY a sedative. I am going to use the 2 phased approach going forward to ensure completion. This is unbelievably sad to write about my pet who I love so much; harder still to observe it and play God. It’s just awful. But I think it is necessary to post this to inform other hobbyists who may have a snail that is suffering. This raises questions for me as well such as clove oil being used to euthanize fish. Has anyone ever transferred their fish back to tank water and waited for a response after the clove oil process? And I wonder what would have happened.
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    Geppetto is now at a level 1 salt. The shrimps and the MTS don’t mind it. In fact, the MTS came out more. I read a comment somewhere earlier today that they can live in brackish water too. Interesting. As well as in radioactive substances. (Jk) The white spot on Geppetto’s head seems neither better nor worse. I wonder if he bonked it on that decoration in there trying to catch a shrimp. It is not sharp, but I think it’s possible and now it’s a little infected. He is in good spirits with plenty of exercising all over his tank, so I’m not overly worried. It does not look like ich but maybe fungal; not sure. Tannins are pretty dark now vs the previous pic I had posted: the combo of several large catappa leaves and rooibos. The shrimps are enjoying the catappa for lunch too, lol. You know I’ve been seeing shrimplets in there as well. In the 5.5g the ember tetras are doing well but there is an unsightly brown soft algae that has developed on the sand, the anubias, and the walls. I cleaned up the walls and did a siphoning which helped. The anubias don’t look that great (yellowing) but I hesitate to put any more fertilizer due to the algae. I could also tell these fish were uncomfortable with very little hiding space. I did like the scape and it was different than my norm, but I need to do better for them. I took one lava rock out and I floated a long plastic plant in there. They were instantly weaving in and out of the plant, and I could tell they like that. I feel like I need to revamp the tank again and take the rocks out in favor of more live plants. I may just take the route I have in the past by submerging some pothos vines. They hold up for a long time submerged and there is nothing to buy. Also my pothos plant needs a trim.
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    I figured! Haha
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    @Colu
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