Guppysnail Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 LIMPET. remove it unless you want tons ask @Chick-In-Of-TheSea🤣 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 4:50 PM, Guppysnail said: LIMPET. remove it unless you want tons ask @Chick-In-Of-TheSea🤣 I wondered if that might be a limpet. I wasn't sure though. I couldn't seem to see any 'insides'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 4:50 PM, Guppysnail said: LIMPET. remove it unless you want tons ask @Chick-In-Of-TheSea🤣 Limpets have shells, right? I removed this and it had no shell. Clear and squishy throughout. Very easy to remove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Oh my looked like a limpet. On your finger it looks like the gel beads they pack tube plants in from big box stores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 @Guppysnail It kind of felt like that too... Maybe a little squishier. I don't have any plants from the big box though. A bit of a mystery... You don't think it's anything to worry about though? The shell underneath looked fine when I took it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 I would not worry. It’s probably been in the tank awhile and the snail happened to get it stuck to its shell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 (edited) Doesn’t look like a limpet. Limpets are oval, like an egg. They do have hard shells because they are snails. Your thingy looks round. Piece of root tab? The capsules start green but turn white fairly quickly. Or maybe a fish egg. Edited October 13, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 (edited) On 10/12/2022 at 9:12 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Piece of root tab? The capsules start green but turn white fairly quickly. That is probably it! I put some in a few days ago and my substrate got suddenly much dirtier than usual overnight last night. I bet one worked it's way up. Edited October 13, 2022 by Katherine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 Oh man guys, it's been a while. My tank has been on a bit of a roller coaster since I last posted. At the end of dealing with the illness previously mentioned I've got 8-10 danios left (they're hard to count!). My hand is still injured, though significantly better than it was in Oct. I ended up losing some of the plants that I had purchased just before the illness issues and almost losing some others. I also had a period of about a month where I could only physically get to the tank enough to throw some food in. I couldn't really see it and certainly couldn't manage water changes during that time. My KH and PH bottomed out and I had a cycle issue at some point, and I lost a few of my mystery snails, but I've got it back under control now. My water was very green at one point and is still just a tinge green and cloudy, but continuing to improve. Here's a current photo of the tank. I'm planning a rescape at some point soon, which I'll be starting another thread for advice on, since aquascaping is not my strong suit. I've got a few new plants in the tank in pots at the moment and I'm planning to get a few more before I redo it. My PSO is one plant that's coming back from death's door as I get my water back under control and with the addition of the new coop light instead of the light that came with the tank. It's a little tangled up in my new crypt that fell over into it at the moment, and it's small, so a little hard to see, but definite visible growth since I got the new light last Monday. My brother and his fiancée gave me this piece of decor for Christmas which I'd like to work in there somehow. When I was out looking for plants on Monday I also found these 2 tiny horned nerites. They're about the size of a pea. The shop sold me both for the price of one zebra nerite as they didn't have a price for them and the manager thought they were likely hitchhikers and not something they'd actually ordered. I was thrilled! They seemed very happy to land on the top of Algae Mountain and we had visible trails where they'd been eating within 20 minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 2:30 PM, Katherine said: Oh man guys, it's been a while. My tank has been on a bit of a roller coaster since I last posted. At the end of dealing with the illness previously mentioned I've got 8-10 danios left (they're hard to count!). My hand is still injured, though significantly better than it was in Oct. I ended up losing some of the plants that I had purchased just before the illness issues and almost losing some others. I also had a period of about a month where I could only physically get to the tank enough to throw some food in. I couldn't really see it and certainly couldn't manage water changes during that time. My KH and PH bottomed out and I had a cycle issue at some point, and I lost a few of my mystery snails, but I've got it back under control now. My water was very green at one point and is still just a tinge green and cloudy, but continuing to improve. Here's a current photo of the tank. I'm planning a rescape at some point soon, which I'll be starting another thread for advice on, since aquascaping is not my strong suit. I've got a few new plants in the tank in pots at the moment and I'm planning to get a few more before I redo it. My PSO is one plant that's coming back from death's door as I get my water back under control and with the addition of the new coop light instead of the light that came with the tank. It's a little tangled up in my new crypt that fell over into it at the moment, and it's small, so a little hard to see, but definite visible growth since I got the new light last Monday. My brother and his fiancée gave me this piece of decor for Christmas which I'd like to work in there somehow. When I was out looking for plants on Monday I also found these 2 tiny horned nerites. They're about the size of a pea. The shop sold me both for the price of one zebra nerite as they didn't have a price for them and the manager thought they were likely hitchhikers and not something they'd actually ordered. I was thrilled! They seemed very happy to land on the top of Algae Mountain and we had visible trails where they'd been eating within 20 minutes. Good to hear from you @Katherine! I've been wondering how you have been doing. I'm sorry you haven't been well, and I hope you have been able to at least able to get some good rest and recovery. I still see a lot of cute snails in your photos 😍. Looking forward to following along with the rescape. It's always fun - maybe try a plant you've never had before, because why not? Heads up, you have an airline not connected to anything there. Make sure there's a check valve on that guy so it doesn't siphon water out. 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 2:00 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Heads up, you have an airline not connected to anything there. Make sure there's a check valve on that guy so it doesn't siphon water out. 😉 I had that in there for extra air during the meds and haven't gotten around to removing it yet. It's still connected to my gang valve, but the air's turned off to that valve. And there is a check valve on the other side of the gang valve. Thank you for looking out! On 1/18/2023 at 2:00 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: maybe try a plant you've never had before, because why not? 100% that's my goal. I might buy some more PSO if I can find it locally, but otherwise only new things. I snagged a Rose Sword, 2 pots of Crypt Wendtii Green, and 1 pot of Crypt Wendtii Bronze. I'm hoping to find some java fern, and then just open to whatever catches my eye. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 Here's our semi-regular sighting of The Big Snail. Sleeping in the substrate. This guy has been with us nearly 3.5 years now. My rose sword has new growth! Those not green leaves in the middle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 On 1/20/2023 at 9:26 PM, Katherine said: My rose sword has new growth! Those not green leaves in the middle Cory showed a hack when he was demonstrating the easy planter. You split the rock wool in half and put a root tab in there, then close it back up and put the plant back in its plastic pot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 On 1/21/2023 at 7:32 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Cory showed a hack when he was demonstrating the easy planter. You split the rock wool in half and put a root tab in there, then close it back up and put the plant back in its plastic pot. Yes! I did that on this one and the bronze crypt. The green ones have so many roots coming out the bottom I'm going to have to cut them out of the pot, so they didn't get one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 Shopping again today. I should be done for a while now. I didn't find any Java fern. I did find this little guy. Quite a bit larger than my new horned nerites, still smaller than any of my others. And 2 new plants. Crypt spiralis. And crinum calamistratum, which I stuck a plant weight on temporarily. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 I got my rescape advice post put up, if anyone wants to head over there and help me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 I haven't been able to get a good shot of the rescape yet, but there's a cloudy one in the other thread. I'll see if I can get better once the lights are on today. I wanted to share these pictures of my mystery snails clearly enjoying the new setup. I've never seen them sleep in the plants like this before, even though they're mostly sleeping in plants that aren't new. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 That last one with the black foot. Is that an olive colored shell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 On 1/23/2023 at 12:57 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: That last one with the black foot. Is that an olive colored shell? No, it's kind of a grayish brownish blueish. The lights were off in this photo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 On 1/23/2023 at 2:23 PM, Katherine said: No, it's kind of a grayish brownish blueish. The lights were off in this photo. The little ramshorns are cute too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 @Chick-In-Of-TheSea Here's a better photo of that snail. And here's a less cloudy full tank shot after the rescape. With the lights on it just looks cloudy. But with lights off the water is obviously green. I'm mostly trusting it'll resolve itself with just my regular maintenance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Henry Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Nice looking clump of C. spiralis, is it from the Co-op? I bought a plant labeled C. Spiralis from from local box store, not convinced it's Spiralis so we 'll see in a few weeks as the submersed leaves are just now sprouting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 @John Henry It's not, I picked it up locally this weekend. I think you'd have trouble shipping it this tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 I'm enjoying watching my mystery snail runt cruise the top of the tree. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 On 1/23/2023 at 3:46 PM, Katherine said: Here's a better photo of that snail. Funny, I just noticed a snail sleeping in my plant too. She was very well hidden. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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