Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This guy is FAST!  Have not seen reproduction (yet). Hoping it doesn’t get all crazy. Just rollin’ the dice for now. It hitchhiked in from the sword plant from the Walstad jar, and somehow.. I allowed it.. 🫣 It’s shell is coppery when the light hits it.

 

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

@TheSwissAquarist you’ll be happy to know there are still shrimps in Geppetto’s tank

 

 

I haven’t really seen him hunting lately. I think it was just the initial introduction that intrigued him.

Edited November 1, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I put a soggy catappa leaf in the shrimp tank and they ate the whole thing in one day. So today I added another one and the frenzy begins again. They love it.

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Here’s a new kid I adopted from Kat’s Aquatics at Aquashella

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I ♥️💙🖤🤍🤎🩶 wild shrimps!

 

Edited November 9, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Cadet is curling up around the Kat’s Aquatics new food. He really likes it, apparently. This is the 3-in-1 and I’m trying to see which one they like. He ate all the red ones first. 

New little blue guy from Aquashella joins in and goes for a green one.

 

Juniper shows up next

I think I like this food! It’s not all dusty, and the fish didn’t figure out how to steal it.

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Repashy frenzy

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

A little bit of Thursday morning parasnailing 

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I moved his favorite sponge filter out and look who started a journey! Kratos! 
 

He journeyed all the way to his original hangout, the PFS, where he will sit and collect what comes his way. 

Edited November 18, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Been struggling with some cloudy water which resulted in a big water change and more mechanical filtration, amongst other things. Today the tank looks “pretty ok”. Not perfect but not terrible either.

 

The last fellow looks like a blue jelly.

[nabokovfan87]

On 11/19/2023 at 4:50 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

The last fellow looks like a blue jelly.

Really good quality too.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Was sitting watching shrimps yesterday with the magnifying glass. They were picking apart a soggy catappa leaf. Satisfying to see the shrimp empty a cell of the leaf, allowing light to shine through, and moving onto the next. The leaf skeleton should be ready for me later today.

I have at least 2 lovely red shrimp: a warm chestnut color. They were swimming about. The key to getting shrimps to swim more is time between feedings and floating plants. Feed shrimps if they are swimming/active but if they are just sitting or walking, they are not that hungry.

I woke up this morning to the tickle of whiskers on my cheek, little puffs of air and sniff sniff noises on my eyebrow, a long warm purr and a massage (kneading).  Very pleasant way to wake up, despite the 5am hour. My view was something like this.

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Wandered over to the fishroom and the leaf skeleton has already been revealed.

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

And so it begins again. They are turning over a new leaf!  (I see the shrimps; they are turning.. hehe 🙄)

I give them the soggy, ready to fall apart leaves from Geppetto’s tank and they love them. Geppetto’s tank is hotter by about 7 degrees, and leaves tend to break down quicker there.

Another blue jelly type shrimp (on bottom left edge) with that black inkspot pattern. See the green carapace? Signature for a blue jelly. (I think. I don’t really research too much into the genetics. I just allow stuff to happen and make sure everyone is healthy).

I heard someone (Secret History, perhaps?) say in a video, wild types have the most potential.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Sherry]

On 11/21/2023 at 5:21 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

I am thinking about getting shrimp… this is good information.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Sherry
Somehow deleted the quote - the part about how to tell when shrimp are hungry.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

@Sherry there is a YouTuber called Mark’s Shrimp Tanks. Very good info there! 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

 

Little blue snail needs a name.

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

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Happy Thanksgiving! Everybody is eating pumpkin!

 

[Guest]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea, I hope you also have an awesome Thanksgiving! Also, awesome pictures you have there, very adorable.

[Lennie]

On 11/22/2023 at 7:05 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

 

Little blue snail needs a name.

Mr meeseeks ofcourse! 
 

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 11/23/2023 at 8:38 AM, Lennie said:

Mr meeseeks ofcourse! 
 

 

As I recall, the rest of the R&M gang is in YOUR tank, @Lennie! We still need to get you a Summer. Think we can sneak a clutch past customs? 😈

[Pokey]

Happy Thanksgiving @Chick-In-Of-TheSea! Thank you for all the interesting and fun posts you make! 😃

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I found a baby MTS in the shrimp tank. That means…

it (more likely its parent) survived Prazi pro

& it survived No Planaria

Wow! That stuff is supposed to be fatal to snails.

[Guppysnail]

Some snails are affected more than others.