Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 4/21/2023 at 3:53 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Reminded me.... I fed shrimp food, was supposed to feed powdered today. I need to crush some up!

My shrimp just seem to enjoy a good il’ piece of mulm or fish food. Aren’t you also supposed to feed them chicken?😝

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Crab cuisine today. 

Being very stealthy:

 

She has eggs. Black rose shrimp??

Theres about a half a dozen molts in the tank today. They must’ve had a molt party or something. I do have cuttlebone pieces in this tank. Sometimes the nerite eats it.

 

Edited April 22, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I have another berried female but photos are too blurry. I noticed the berried females are very defensive of their personal space.

[nabokovfan87]

On 4/22/2023 at 5:49 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

She has eggs. Black rose shrimp??

Definitely should go to the jar. Yeah. Black form.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/22/2023 at 4:28 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Definitely should go to the jar. Yeah. Black form.

I don’t have the heart to move a female with eggs. Going off Mark’s shrimp tanks advice to keep the black shrimps in there.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Dropped in a Snello. Look where it landed.

 

@Lennie

 

Edited April 24, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I guess I’ve been looking in the wrong spots for my shrimp culls. I should have been looking up high. This guy found the hornwort.

Kratos is on the move. Check out those antennae! I never saw him stretch them out when he lived with Geppetto.

Nibbles carefully balancing.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This little girl may be sick? I think I remember seeing her in this same spot and pose yesterday. Everyone else is cruising around. Parameters look good, with nitrates at a 10.

(I was not able to clean the glass there, as I didn’t want to move her.)

 

Actually, she may be the same snail that had the Snello on her head yesterday.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Hmm, I checked in on her and found she traveled a little ways toward the back of the tank. I can’t see what she is doing since she is facing away but she has found a decaying leaf and I think she is eating that.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea
Fix typo

[Lennie]

Nooo summer!!!

I can’t take it right after Rick. You better get well soon 

😭

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Ehh… she’s like, scrunching up or something. Wondering if I should qt.

 

[Guppysnail]

She is just over year old I think. I allow them to remain in the tank as long as they are moving. Sometimes it takes a month or more before their time with me ends. Sometimes only a few days. 
I equate the slowly not moving at this age to arthritis. In no way similar but the slowing and creaking of aging. 
Im sorry your girl is slowing. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/25/2023 at 6:41 PM, Guppysnail said:

She is just over year old I think. I allow them to remain in the tank as long as they are moving. Sometimes it takes a month or more before their time with me ends. Sometimes only a few days. 
I equate the slowly not moving at this age to arthritis. In no way similar but the slowing and creaking of aging. 
Im sorry your girl is slowing. 

That’s a bummer. Everyone else is doing their vacuuming so I don’t think it is a “tank problem”. If I qt her I can do a catappa treatment. Not sure if that would benefit her or not. Perhaps the stress of being moved may not be ideal. 

 

[Lennie]

Shes just grumpy cause this week’s snello was not in a teddy bear shapeee

[nabokovfan87]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea Is there any issue/risk of the amount of waste in the substrate?  Maybe just a few good siphons or something and clean water?  I know you said the nitrates were low, but maybe there's too many organics causing stress?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/25/2023 at 9:33 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea Is there any issue/risk of the amount of waste in the substrate?  Maybe just a few good siphons or something and clean water?  I know you said the nitrates were low, but maybe there's too many organics causing stress?

About 2 days ago I did a good vac.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Found Amethyst on her back this morning. That always makes me nervous. Did the sniff test and the [gentle] poke test. Both ok, seems to be some tension in the flesh. Placed her back upright and after a few minutes I saw a feeler come out and slowly wave around. But she didn’t open up. Then a short while after that she was on her back again and another snail was near her. I think she got knocked over and didn’t have the energy to right herself. 😔

Edited April 26, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Friend came to visit

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Wow, lots of happenings!

 

 

[Lennie]

On 4/28/2023 at 12:22 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Wow, lots of happenings!

 

 

whoa

those eggs look very big o: 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/27/2023 at 5:27 PM, Lennie said:

whoa

those eggs look very big o: 

Seriously!

I keep wanting to retire that yellow water sprite but there’s always like 20 shrimps in it.

Edited April 27, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Snails being adorable.

Edited April 28, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This came up again on another thread. Seen it before, but I don’t pay that much attention to it. I just post random pictures of shrimp and say, this is interesting, this is different, lol.  I’m just the casual shrimpkeeper.

Based on my offspring, my Heinz 57 varieties, I may not have started out with ANY blue dream shrimp. I believe I started out with deep blue neo shrimp. (You guys probably already knew that. Heh.)

[Lennie]

On 4/29/2023 at 12:32 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

This came up again on another thread. Seen it before, but I don’t pay that much attention to it. I just post random pictures of shrimp and say, this is interesting, this is different, lol.  I’m just the casual shrimpkeeper.

Based on my offspring, my Heinz 57 varieties, I may not have started out with ANY blue dream shrimp. I believe I started out with deep blue neo shrimp. (You guys probably already knew that. Heh.)

I love how your shrimp shoot different beautiful colors. Great shrimp to trigger MTS.

You can literally start your own color lines all the time 😄 

I used to not like blues. You made me grown into them, now I like them

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Hmm.. it seems Button has had a visit to this rock.