you must have never had a real outbreak in your tank. when they get into large numbers they eat anything green, not just the dying leaves. i have even seen ...
shannon, the only way that i have seenanyone get rid of them completely without using clown loaches is to start a whole new tank with new filters, and transfer...
best thing to do is to run the plants ina hospital tank for 3 weeks to make sure no snails hatch ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
I agree with you Patrick. 70 gallons or more for a normal pleco. There are some that stay small, bushynose, clown, among others. Commons, gibbices and many...
I'm sorry, I misspoke, they absorb O2 at night, not release CO2. "Damaged and I like it. It made me what I am!" With live plants, only use an airpump at...
So, you can manually remove the snails, but what about the little worms? I started seeing the little tiny worms swimming around when I cleaned my tank last...
Psst, I need a flying fox..... Willing to rehabilitate one that can be returned to the wild. Hey, just wishful thinking. I see photos and programs about the ...
You say one is fat? Do you use salt? Might they have internal parasites? What does the fecal matter look like? Could you tell us what your water test read...
That's good to know Paul. I don't carry them at my store anymore, but the catalogs still refer to them as lead weights. Might this just be a lingering "name"...
No problem Jeff. I've added your address and will forward you a digest. As for being back, I take it you're a member of Tropical Fish Connection, too. I've...
Yeah, Joe, I don't think I'll have my Bioengineering degree done until I finish Microbiology degree and I don't think I can get that until I finish my...
Are the worms short and thread like? Completely white or red on the end? They could be planaria or tubiflex which are harmless (IMHO). I may have missed the...
Forest FloorI guess I had better introduce myself, especially after being called crazy already lol.. I like ramshorns. Anyway I raise pomacea bridgesii...
When I finally, wew, get through my messages and find the plants group, go to the archives, there was a lot of diiscussion about cichlids and plants. If you...
short, threadlike, completely white...they swim like caterpillers walk...only they do it vertically , if that makes sense... ... end? ... have ... Dwarf ... ...
I suspect that the particular species we have in Tennessee and maybe
other areas (or it might not have anything to do with location at all) are
not the same...
Those are planaria, completely harmless, they usually appear in good established tanks when there has been some overfeeding going on. Depending on the fish in...
THanks Terry! I did jsut vacuum, but I will cut back on feeding too. BTW, I just bid on your blue mystery snail!! he is sooo cute! Renee in MI ... Depending ...
There is a common ramshorn (planorbis) and there is an apple snail ramshorn which has a trap door and are commonly called giant ramshorn snails, they are...
those usually come from too much muck in the substrate. feed a little less, vacuum a little more, and if you can find them, get a couple of raspboras. they...
Excellent point once again,,, Actually killing of any wildlife is illegal. In one of my animal science classes my egotistical lecturer started in about...
Time for the loaches,, they really are eccellant snail controllers. As for transferable parasites, nematodes would be the only worry and if they had them they...
Algae eaters don't do what their name says , buty will harrass and attack fish. They are not worth keeping as they don;t ever touch algae unless there is...
... This is what I had done - I left the Riccia fluitans in my 2.5 gallon hospice tank, which was unoccupied and unsuitable for fish at the time (pH about 9,...
H'lo, I've never been sure about identifying the worms that appeared after the introduction of little-black-snails. One behaviour I observbed on a (my)...
He/she has actually eating tonight. Water is PH between 6.5 and 7.0 Nitrate between 0 and 10mg Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 And we do the water testing myself. No i...
Snailacides, that would kill the snails! :) I really don't mind the
snails. They are great for cleaning up the bottom of my fry box. Crushing
them once a...
It is easier to tell with for example guppies as you can see the gravid spot
apearing. You can't see this in a platy, but if it is a light coloured platy
you...
Hi! i'm from the philippines and i'm wondering if there's someone in this group from the philippines too who could tell me where i could get riccia and...
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