Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I wish I could have gotten better images of this one, but here’s a cool shrimp. You can see his little face peeking out from the botanical he is cleaning.

 

Edited January 15 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Babies, and other random shrimpy pics 🙂

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Removed baffle and then deployed my flow tester to check direction of current.

Edited January 21 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[BIRD0887]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSeaYou have a picture near the top of ur snail eating something, what is that?? Is red...

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 1/21/2024 at 11:24 AM, BIRD0887 said:

@Chick-In-Of-TheSeaYou have a picture near the top of ur snail eating something, what is that?? Is red...

Which photo? Could be bell pepper, bloodworm, or vibra bites. I have a cichlid pellet that is red too and sometimes they eat those when they find them.

 

Edited January 21 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

There’s always a friggin awesome shrimp every time I look in this tank.

Bonus pic of Button the nerite just being adorable.

 

[nabokovfan87]

On 1/22/2024 at 3:03 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Carbon Rili!!!! Now you have all of the things.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Does anyone know why nerites attach to each other? Button rides around on Hampshire a good 90% of the time, but I think both are males. I’ve never had any eggs. Also I’ve never seen any adult behavior; it is just like, an Uber ride. Is this just a BFF thing? Button knows Hampshire is a nerite too and this is a security blanket sort of behavior?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

pretty MTS, has a bit of purple 

blue jelly in betta tank 

Edited January 31 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This wall is delicious 

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Shrimps vs dragonfruit stick

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Since Geppetto has been having a violent streak this week, I made the executive decision to evict his tenants. They are now in shrimp paradise and can enjoy the latest and greatest goodies from my Crayfish Empire shipment such as soybean pellets and dragonfruit sticks, bee pollen sticks, beetroot sticks, etc.

 

[Guppysnail]

I love the Guardians box’s and idea 🥰

[oS3R0o]

Your critters will be feasting well! 🐌😎👍

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

The day has come. My oldest snail Romeo has finally passed. Romeo was sent to me, along with his siblings, by @Guppysnail. She hatched him in October 2022. I found some pics from his childhood.

 

This could be him or a sibling, not sure.

This was the day my snail mail arrived. I carefully placed everybody at their welcome gift. Aren’t they gorgeous!!!

Romeo was first to explore. He had a white foot and everyone else had a peachy foot. Also Romeo had freckles. 

 

 

Here he had a bit of a growth spurt.

He was notorious for falling asleep on his girlfriends and they had to haul him around the tank for 2-3 hours.

What can I say? He liked to snuggle afterwards. 💜

And here’s just a little video of how arrogant he was. LOL! That’s a nerite he’s monster trucking over.

But he was a joy to have. He reached 16 months old. Wow! He long outlived his siblings. Perhaps due to the “exercise” he was getting? But he was also the fastest mystery snail and would be bookin it across the tank on a regular basis, just doin his laps.

Edited February 24 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Guppysnail]

Parasnail in peace Romeo. ❤️ 
They are such a joy but much too short lived.  I’m sorry for your loss.  

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 11/9/2022 at 3:15 PM, Guppysnail said:

Shiva- Hindu protector and destroyer god (protects from and destroys algae )

Guys my shrimp tank needed help!

Even the silicone is growing algae.

Light reduction helped a little, but not enough. Many days over the past month or so the light was kept off.
 

This gal sure ain’t toothy enough to get the job done.

Also she made a baby (hatched from egg) which I can’t find half the time. Limpets and MTS haven’t made a dent in this either.

So here we have Shiva! Thanks to @Guppysnail for the name. I collected name suggestions when I adopted Kratos. Kratos name was chosen by a neutral 3rd party, and I kept this name in mind for the next nerite.

Shiva is a young olive nerite. He will be having the feast of kings once he learns his way around.

Edited February 24 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[nabokovfan87]

I was very fun to see Romeo's Journey.  Beautiful shell coloration and he definitely had a full and happy life!
 

On 2/24/2024 at 12:43 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Even the silicone is growing algae.

I hate this as well.... it's so frustrating.  I would recommend thinning out the algae over time.  You can also cut feeding way back and let the shrimp graze on it more attentively.  Ultimately, even with bigger shrimp like amanos, once the algae reaches a certain size they can end up ignoring it for easier spots to graze.  The thin, new, "fresh" algae is their favorite, but the thicker, chewy, dense, harder, more robust stuff tends to get left there.

Use a Soft toothbrush on the silicone and just be very gentle with it.  You can drain the tank and brush on peroxide as well on any trouble spots and it should work wonders.

Just let it be exposed to air with the peroxide on the area for 10-15 minutes.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 2/24/2024 at 10:39 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

I was very fun to see Romeo's Journey.  Beautiful shell coloration and he definitely had a full and happy life!
 

I hate this as well.... it's so frustrating.  I would recommend thinning out the algae over time.  You can also cut feeding way back and let the shrimp graze on it more attentively.  Ultimately, even with bigger shrimp like amanos, once the algae reaches a certain size they can end up ignoring it for easier spots to graze.  The thin, new, "fresh" algae is their favorite, but the thicker, chewy, dense, harder, more robust stuff tends to get left there.

Use a Soft toothbrush on the silicone and just be very gentle with it.  You can drain the tank and brush on peroxide as well on any trouble spots and it should work wonders.

Just let it be exposed to air with the peroxide on the area for 10-15 minutes.

No need. I have a helper. 
 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

The new little nerite was able to clean the green algae off the shrimp feeding dishes. Algae that I was unable to scrub off at the kitchen sink!  He makes it look effortless.

[nabokovfan87]

On 2/25/2024 at 6:02 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

No need. I have a helper. 

I keep trying to talk myself into clithon's (mini nerites) and then I always forget that my water doesn't work for snails. 😞 

Literally wanting to get some, but not sure I can.  Awesome to hear they kicked the algae with ease!

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I feel like we needed to see a snail eating a green bean today! Am I right?

Hampshire the zebra nerite went dormant for almost a week on the driftwood. I was concerned and even tried jostle him a bit to check for wellbeing but he was firmly suctioned. Now he’s back to cruising with his frequent Uber passenger, Button. I put some Repashy powder in to coat the things.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

There are 4 new bladder snails that have appeared in the shrimp tank. I also found eggs. I took those out and put them in the Walstad jar. I don’t feed the tank very often since there is a lot of algae.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Shiva the olive nerite 🫒 

Wild shrimps vs. dragonfruit stick, 2 angles

 

Edited March 22 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Hampshire is in a makeshift hospital while I am gone for the day. Last night and this morning he gave me a few scares. The last few weeks he’s been slowing down. I don’t know his exact adoption date but it was before 3/15/22 according to one “headcount” in my notes. 

feeding ring+tupperware lid+paper towel. Mainly this is so he does not foul the tank for many hours while I’m gone… 😞

There is plenty of algae in the tank so I believe this is age-related.

I devised this setup so he can crawl back into the water if/when he feels better.

Edited April 1 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea