Trevir

My tank has high water movement due to cheap corner hob filter, so anything that floats gets sucked in. Would water movement effect the sprite negatively?

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea that is great to know! That’s probably why it grows fast puts up shoots and immediately roots up into the water, I’ve been fighting this since week 2. my water sprite died, really quickly, it grew so fast and looked so happy for about 3 months and then turned yellow and began burning back to the stocks. It went fast, was my favorite plant. I want to replace it but i dont want to kill another… I had the it in the easy planter and im worried it wasn’t happy in there.

@Tonyp814 they love to help feed the fish and periodically they spend time watching. It helps that I have the fish set to their sleep schedule so the tank lights turn out just before bed time. They are 3 and 5, so everything is exciting. @jwcarlson that’s exactly how I got my java ferns so abundant. I thought I had a weird algae taking over until I realized it was a separate plant. So I started planting them in the gravel as they popped up and the rest is history.

I do feel that as with most things in life if you use pop culture or media to make decisions or set your habits without further research you are going to be disappointed by where you end up.

So in other words they’re not bad to have in the tank and they can help as long as their numbers stay balanced.

So in other words they’re not bad to have in the tank and they can help as long as their numbers stay balanced.

So it is possible that my 2 nerites kept the population small and in the substrate?

Any idea how long their eggs could have been dormant on a plant? Its been 8 months since we added anything.

Started researching fish keeping in 2015 when my wife and I got married, we lived in an apartment next to a fish tank installer and I realized there was a sufficient market in the world for such a thing and it blew my mind. Also started an itch that is not yet satisfied to some day get into some serious saltwater tank ideas, but that is for another day and a larger budget than I can justify. We currently have a 10gal planted tank with 5 neon tetras, 3 bandit corydoras, 2 (1currently) nerite snails, 1 flame gorami. we got a corner tank because it fits nicely in the corner of our kids room where the temperature stays nice and steady and I am able to control the amount of light that gets to the tank. The hang on back filter I followed some of the ideas from the filter boosting YouTube video that Cory posted and it is currently providing the aeration, which means there is a pleasant constant sound of water flowing that works as good as any noise machine for the kids to fall asleep to. threw in a piece of aquarium wood, a sunken battleship and a treasure chest, planted some cool plants around and this setup has been as close to no maintenance as any out there. I clean filters and do a 1 gal water change once per week and monitor the levels of chemical and haven’t had any significant hang ups.

When I was a kid I killed several guppies from over feeding, or so I thought. Finding out that actually it was the ammonia from the food decomposition at the bottom of the tank was kinda hard to contend with, cleaning the bowl could have saved my fish?! When we decided to get into fish I started researching because I didn’t want my kids 3,5 to have the same experience and disappointment I had. I really think the most important thing to teach is the nitrogen cycle to people new to fish, rather than teaching add minimal gravel and make your aquarium perfectly clean I think it is helpful to teach about beneficial bacteria etc. This is one thing aquarium co-op does so well!! It made this hobby so accessible!! Balancing fish with plants and filters and light means when our kids over feed I have resources to manage the ammonia spike, or the algae bloom, the nerite snails mopping up the glass and plants helps too. Also when we were buying our tetras for our little aquatic feature the sales guy reminded our kids how little these guys are and how just a couple little nano food particles would be enough for each of them! It was so cool that it was broken down throughout the whole process into little bits that made it so easy to set up a thriving system the first try!

hoping to use some expertise of the veterans. I have one nerite snail (featured in first photo) I had two, the other died right after Christmas, the next day I noticed these little dots on the glass and thought it was my corydora laying eggs again, when I noticed they were moving I was both excited and anxious. I dont have brackish water. The other thing is I havent added anything to my tank since at least July, I have never had more than 2 snails and I specifically chose nerites so I wouldn’t have to worry about babies. How do identify these little guys before they get big enough to actually effect the tank ecosystem? With 50% of my nerites out of commission my algae is already getting out of control so I am trying to decide what to do with these guys, let them live or introduce something that can take care of invaders(as rare as they may be) and balance the system to deal with the additional bio load. 10gal corner tank with rounded front face so images are a little distorted and its hard to get an angle of the top of one, plus they dont have a twist formed yet. Just kinda domed and pointy.