You're a feeder I don't feed my fish every 4th day. Served me well over the years. Also I have to keep waste down as my tanks are usually planted so you can't vacuum the substrate or the tank would turn to a mud bath. I always carefully balance the bio load. Baking soda do't get me wrong I don't noow it that is safe or not, just the thought of putting anything into my tanks is I use a certain type of gravel if I want to raise the pH to make it suitable for shrimp and snails. I kept some African cichlids in the past and used sand and rocks to harden the water to about 7.8 pH. Your water must be quite soft, as in pH lower than 7 and kH lower than 3 for snails to have a raw deal. Bad buzz on the wipe out, never had one, I always used quarantine for 2 weeks for new fish and plants and used methylene blue as a disinfectant. as for those batards Malaysian snails. Even loaches can't eat them, the shells get too thick.
Depends on what is in the tank. I don't feed fish every day. Baking soda is fine as long as you moderate what is put in- I don't put anything in my tank I don't research heavily. Buffered substrates tend to raise the pH and KH higher than I want them to go. These are planted tanks so I try to moderate the water chemistry to be good for both inverts and plants. Most plants don't like the water to get too hard. I can get big bags of baking soda and Epsom salts really cheap- and I don't put a lot in... the bags last me a long time... and I can fine tune what I need... pretty well practiced now what's needed- don't bother measuring water hardness anymore. My water has a high enough pH for most of the inverts in my tank- some of the tylo species I have though the shells show a lot of wear, they would like the pH higher. For really beautiful snails you really need very hard water. I do a week quarantine usually. Nothing had been added for over a month before the Brigs all died. Nothing else died- but the brigs all did I can't explain it. Yeah... my spixis would occasionally eat bladder snails and ramshorn- they wouldn't touch an MTS. I've seen female ghost shrimp attack snails- but never anything with a trapdoor like an MTS. When I had dwarf puffers- they loved snails... wouldn't touch MTS though.
Assassin snails, I reckon they'd eat them, they can go into their shells after them and suck them out. Slow breeders too. For RHC the Assassin snail please log in to view this image
Again, not my picture, but this is what my invert tank looked like before my Brigs died. Had a wide variety of colours- although I tended to prefer magenta's and DSP. please log in to view this image Nerites are awesome- and don't breed in freshwater- so you don't get overrun: Lots of kinds of nerites- one species you can pick up in rivers near the coast here in the US (gulf regions) please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Assassins will eat them... I've heard of people using them for snail control... but assassins will also eat other snails... even the huge snails like Cana- they somehow will form a pack-mentality and gang up on one Cana at a time to eat them. If I didn't have ornamental snails I'd get them... plus I think assassins look cool.
I also have a handful of faunus. They don't breed in freshwater either. They live a long time- mine are all at least 8 years old now, please log in to view this image Not as spectacular looking as some other snails- but they get quite large and are some what of a rarity in the invert trade.
More pics please i'm quite interested in this some cool looking fishy things. How much is a small tank?
I don't own any of these [Cana] because: 1) They eat plants. 2) Hard to get/ illegal to cross state lines in the US and don't know any vendors in my state They're pretty cool though: please log in to view this image Marissa are plant eaters too and can't cross state lines so never had any. please log in to view this image Only "can't cross state line" species I've ever owned are Spixis- found a local vendor... they're also not plant eaters (as long as you feed them enough) so safe to keep in main tank.
You'll get a 60 litre tank for about 60 quid with the bits to go with it, small filter heater light. would be 24"x12"x12"
I used to have multiple tanks- I had a tank just for snails and other inverts... my wife was annoyed at all the tanks- so I had to combine them all. Now I just have my 150gallon tank at home and my 10 gallon tank in the office.
Very interesting life is a bit hectic at the moment but this is something I quite fancy getting into.
Do border control keep an eye out for these guys man they're big ass snails, the US hobby scene another level to the European one. Germany maybe is aquascaping central in Europe. I am into biotopes for species and breeding. @Luv This is what you can do with a 60 litre tank, I have a bit of peat in the bottom and panda Cory catfish and glowlight danios in there, all small fish and a crappy light over it, all cost me about €100 including fish please log in to view this image
Depends what you get. Mine (tropical) don't take much looking after but nor have I got anything too fancy. Depends what you define as small. For the size Sisu said, it would only be £60 for either a basic or second hand tank. Becareful on the latter, ****s sell them with leaks although you can buy the sealant for them too.
I had a custom 600l, jewel 450 vision, 350l corner tank trigon, Vision 160l, aqua One 360L perspex 200l quarantine, record 180l and a bunch of 54 litre hatching and breeding tanks. then the ceilings started getting soggy in the fish room from moisture. I had to cut back
here's one on gumtree UK, just for a visual, £70 for tank lights hood heater filter ornaments sands the lot, just add fish and set to broil please log in to view this image
