Guppysnail Aquarium Journal

[eatyourpeas]

Always a lovely morning when catching up with this journal and a cup of coffee! This makes me miss my Mystery snails… 🐌

[Guppysnail]

Of course I’ll post cute photos here…just because I’m me 😁 But I wanted to keep all the info on these guys I learn in one spot. Here is the new adventure thread

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

Well isn’t he just the cutest little thing There are 2 fry in the ugly fry funny tank. This is the bigger of the two. 🥰. The coffee filter hatch fry box worked great but I could not see 👀 them ☹️  What a wiggly little thing. 

man’s of course the parents all have to have the SAME tubifex cube. The other two are not good enough 🤣

 

HAPPY ADVENTURES…TRY SOMETHING NEW 

Edited July 13, 2022 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

Water change day 

Time to hook up hose 

driveway pavers used my hose removed my quick connect apparently took it with them  

Oblivious to my suffering and drama. 

[Guppysnail]

Dad is releasing the babies today 🥰

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 7/15/2022 at 8:50 AM, Guppysnail said:

Dad is releasing the babies today 🥰

Oh my goodness!  Look at those little guys! How cute! ORD

[Odd Duck]

Love the babies!  ❤️ 😍🥰 

And call your paver guys and make them return your quick disconnect!  It’s not like they can use it without the other half of it!

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Found this

 

[Guppysnail]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea picture this in the guppy girl grow out 20 long. Instead of trimming I’m going to let it grow in full. The nerites Yardbirds are already there. Once these girls grow up and get adopted I just doing community breeding.  I finally got to see my blue boys turn out exactly as I envisioned. So now I’m kinda over doing that much work and having that many guppy tanks. 

[Guppysnail]

Working on a 2 day haircut. I’m guessing Dean slept on Caramels shell 🤣

Last one visible this morning then he went to the substrate and disappeared. So I’m guessing they dug themselves in for a nap after 24/7 food frenzy. 
last bit of Riccia on the tree. Tiny terrorists  are digging under it to get it up 🙄. I’ll just let it float. Maybe it will form a large floating ball. The guppies picked the guppy grass to shreds so now it floats everywhere. I’ll let that hang out until it gets long and try again. Thinking of glueing the Riccia to a mesh bag piece of material then glueing and zip typing it to the tree. I really liked my Dr Seuss tree ☹️

HAPPY ADVENTURES…TRY SOMETHING NEW

[Guppysnail]

@CKetchum all my mystery snail stuff is on this journal. This is what happens when I put in the nano blocks. 

On 7/16/2022 at 10:12 AM, Guppysnail said:

@CKetchum all my mystery snail stuff is on this journal. This is what happens when I put in the nano blocks. 

Grab n go fast food🤣

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 7/16/2022 at 10:12 AM, Guppysnail said:

@CKetchum all my mystery snail stuff is on this journal. This is what happens when I put in the nano blocks. 

Grab n go fast food🤣

Om nom nom!

Cant wait to follow along with the Yardbirds tank!

[Guppysnail]

It will be a bit. I’ve got about 40-50 week old guppy fry 🤣. But Yardbirds are there. Working on the wizard snails. 

[Katherine]

On 7/16/2022 at 9:12 AM, Guppysnail said:

@CKetchum all my mystery snail stuff is on this journal. This is what happens when I put in the nano blocks. 

Grab n go fast food🤣

What color is this fellow under the algae?

[Guppysnail]

@Katherine he is chestnut brown with stripes. The stripes were not as noticeable actually hardly noticeable at all before his algae grew. You can see it in the smaller spire rings. I’m uncertain if the algae stripped his color or if it softened the outer layer just enough that the nerite is removing the color layer. I actually pushed to make certain his shell is not soft. It is not. Perhaps his shell just lightened as it grew. 🤷‍♀️  I’m uncertain but it definitely is something I’m watching. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

How is this guy doing?

[Guppysnail]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea I just checked him an hour ago. Still eating and active. His shell looks more distinctly like something chewed on him. There are distinct teeth marks. I can see flesh cover with a thin membrane layer. His shell looked like it cracked through from this, but fused because it is not level. His growth after the crack is patterned very different.  So he is doing well. He seems happy. I left him and another zebra in the shrimp/panda fry tank so he has company and I can keep a good eye on him. Because of all the very deep teeth marks close together and flesh only covered with membrane it’s not safe to repair. My attempts would likely cause more harm than good. Clean water and trust Mother Nature.  He is giving no signs of any type of distress.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 7/17/2022 at 9:01 PM, Guppysnail said:

he is doing well. He seems happy.

That’s great. He’s in the right place at the guppysnail house 👍

[Guppysnail]

The little 2.5 g bow Snailtopia is being retired. I had set the funny tank up to raise the magentas I’m hatching. With the panda fry in there I cannot vac debris. They hide in the mulm. So I went to get Froggin crickets today and they have several versions on the 5G aquatop all in 1 setup. Looked pretty decent so I picked up the cube.  Only place I can put it and only stinking plug in 2 fish rooms I have left is right where Snailtopia resides. This tank looks so awesome setup in the store. It’s a shame it’s going to be upon a bottom shelf under another tank ☹️

Babies are due to start hatching in a few days  

Now let’s see how fast I can yuck up this tank and make it one of my ugly fry tanks 🤣

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 7/18/2022 at 10:52 AM, Guppysnail said:

Babies are due to start hatching in a few days  

I’m excited!!!!!!! 🎉🥳

[Guppysnail]

So I’m impressed with this all in one they put thought into it. 
 

I set a stopwatch. 12 minutes from box open to complete with light turned on for setup. That included taking pictures. Of course I didn’t read the destructions 🤣

the filter can be positioned anywhere on the back. The light sits in a chamber in the back. So high light plants one side slow growing low light on the other to avoid a bit of algae. Or all higher light plants. Even a corner cut out on the lid for plugs. Bottom of the filter is filled with bio media ceramic rings. I’ll leave those. Not using floss and cartridge I’ll put in sponge. 
 

Filter comes with fry/shrimp guard. Outflow is 360 adjustable direction control. I could easily zip tie sponge on the outflow to baffle it for thing like Betta etc. 

YAY 👏 I’m pleased with the new mystery snail “Snursery” to borrow @Darth Mollusk name. 🤗

Edited July 18, 2022 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

Now I am SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED 

Look what’s inside the destruction manual

and a manual picture of the interior of the filter

[Katherine]

On 7/18/2022 at 9:52 AM, Guppysnail said:

So I went to get Froggin crickets today

What does this mean? 🤔

[Guppysnail]

On 7/18/2022 at 12:07 PM, Katherine said:

What does this mean? 🤔

My tree frog 🐸 eats crickets. The little pet shop near me sells the crickets 😁

Froggin is her name

Edited July 18, 2022 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

Tada. A Snursery is born 🥰