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Skwishee
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Re: A Snail Tank!
« Reply #66 on: May 28, 2012, 03:54:16 AM » |
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Well here's something I learnt yesterday, anaerobic bacteria in a tank stinks! XD When I was cleaning the snails tank yesterday, even though the sand isn't very thick at all, I found black spots, underneath the cuttlefish it was entirely black, the cuttlefish stank of eggs, so that is in the organic bin now! Sucked up all of the black sand, stirred the heck out of everything else! Snails had quite the sand storm! I think I'm going to feed them calcium a different way, I do not trust cuttlefish after this! I think liquid calcium or calcium tablets will be far safer! Hopefully if I stir up the sand once a week during maintenance it should stop it from happening again, or I could buy myself some more snails  Malaysian Trumpet Snails burrow in sand and would turn it over for me  |
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sajacobs
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Re: A Snail Tank!
« Reply #68 on: May 28, 2012, 09:31:02 PM » |
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Yuck  Stinky stuff What about coral? Doesn't that leach out calcium? So I want to share a bit of humor. After about 1/2 hour in the tank, my older snail was being "saucy" with my new snail. Yeap it turns out I have a male and female. The new snail was bothered for hours...what a way to enter a new environment. So much for my guessing....I'm not good at that either  So snail lovers....does the female get very quiet after mating? The new snail (sunny) has been sitting in her shell and bearly moves around. The male is always on the move...goes all day. Is that normal? I guess I'll be following skwishee's lead and having a snail tank. |
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Skwishee
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Re: A Snail Tank!
« Reply #71 on: June 01, 2012, 07:20:27 AM » |
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Okay so I'm always going on about the st*pid things I find my snails doing, I sorted their tank out with a filter today after the panic with anaerobic sand I think some beneficial bacteria would be useful, so I've moved the small internal filter into their tank. Lucky's tank should be fine as the external should have enough bacteria by now! Anyway I was sorting out some photo's and found some of the silly things I've caught my snails doing, so thought I'd share them I apologise for the terrible quality, it's hard to get good photo's of them when their so tiny! First we have the leaning tower of snails followed by the snail bundle... Yes that is one snail trying to swim down with others on his shell, not quite sure how they managed that, but shortly after I took this another snail swam up and joined on! I'm hoping they'll still do these antics with a filter in the tank...... |
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