Cilph

Thanks all. I'll check him again on Friday or so if he hasn't moved.

One of my two nerite snails hasn't moved in three days. I found him upside down on one of my plants and am pretty sure I saw him poking out of his shell at that time. I picked him up and set him on the substrate and then nothing for three days. I pulled him out yesterday to examine him and don't see anything wrong with his shell and he doesn't smell. Is he dead? I read somewhere that they hybernate? His tank mate is going strong and eating all the things. No ammonia or nitrite. About 30-40 ppm nitrate. Ph is somewhere between 7.5-7.8

Thanks all. And I'm correct that they will not only eat off the glass but also the algae on my plants and rocks?

Slowly adding fish to my main tank. Have 3 guppies and 6 neon tetras in there currently, all happy. Just finishing quarantining 6 dwarf corys; will add tomorrow. Algea is starting to grow on glass and decorations so think I should get some Nerite snails. Never done snails before. Do they need to go through the same kind of quarantine process (trio)? Anything else I should know about snails? I read the nerite care guide. My water seems to be pretty hard (180ppm GH via API test strip) with a PH slightly above 7.0. What else do I need to know about snails? I assume two nerites for a 10 gallon tank?

In the same vein. I'm dealing with an ammonia spike right now. In the video on ammonia, it said that dechlorinators neutralize ammonia for a while? How does that play into how much I add? I was at 2ppm ammonia this morning. Did a 50% water change and its (as expected) at 1ppm. Was going to do a smaller water change tonight to get the levels down, holding off on a food for a day or two until I can get things stable. Thoughts?

When I change water and add a dechlorinator, do I add enough for the amount I'm putting back in or for the entire tank? For instance: 10 gallon tank, with 2.5 gallon water change. Do I treat only the 2.5 gallons or the entire 10 gallons?

Thanks everybody. Gave me a lot of confidence trying to establishing this tank after the slaughter that was the first round. I'll start with two more guppies (what the kids want) and the 6 pygmy corys as an initial clean up crew. What do you mean by drip acclimate?

Hi all. Brand new to the hobby (thanks to my 6 year daughter). Started with a 5 gallon tank and 4 guppies. Killed so many fish 😞 We really tried. Now we are left with one incredibly hardy and resilient guppy. I've got my quarantine trio ready to go (no more ich or parasites in my house) and am making sure to get a good cycle going before buying new fish. We have decided to upgrade to a 10 gallon tank. I set it up with substrate and a few plants about four weeks ago and have let it run while Sunny Wilma (the remaining male guppy as named by previously mentioned daughter) stayed in the 5 gallon tank. Checking the water every few days and amonia is at 0 ppm and its moving through nitrite and nitrate as expected. Moving plants and decorations over to the 10 gallon tank this weekend. Will move Sunny W. too. A few questions. First, we want a community tank. Borrowing from the post about cookie cutter tanks, we thought about trying the following. Again, a 10 gallon tank with four plants (dwarf grass, java fern, and something else I can't remember): 3 male guppies 6 neon tetras 4 panda/pygmy corydoras 3 amano shrimp Does this seem about right? Too many? Too few? I don't want to overload the ecosystem and we are VERY much novices here. If that's about right, do you suggest I buy all those fish and introduce them at once, hitting all of them with the trio? Or do it in phases? If phases, how long between each new set of fish? In what order? I really don't want to kill any more fish and would appreciate any advice. Cilph