Feeding one pipipi snail
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:09 pm
Hi,
My 1.5 gallon fishbowl has 4 residents:
3 opae ula (had them since 2011)
1 pipipi snail (had her since 2015)
Many months ago, I moved them from a tiny vase to their current 1.5 gallon fish bowl. The opae ula are doing well, growing big. I had the snail in it's own container and was feeding it for a while, then a while ago I moved her into the 1.5 gal bowl. She has since devoured all the algae and now I am worried she's starving.
I have my fluorescent light on for at least 12 hours a day to try to grow more algae. I even removed some of Mustafa's macro algae and just left a few strands (which are reproducing well still) in hope that more algae would grow on the glass. But alas, my one single female pipipi snail is keeping the fishbowl spotless.
I am inclined to feed her, but I worry about the risk of increasing "organic pollution" in the fishbowl for the opae ula in order to feel my snail.
Am I just being overly worried? Maybe there's enough algae in there for her to eat?
Or maybe it's ok to feed her, and the "organic pollution" will be absorbed by the macro-algae, which I can simply thin out every so often to keep the load in balance?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Here's a photo of their home:
As a side note: I have been leaning back and forth on buying them more friends. I'm thinking of buying 10 shrimps from this site, so I'll have a total of 13 shrimp in this 1.5 gallon bowl. (From the product page description, it seems fine. I read a lot from Fuku Bonsai and it seems the shrimps enjoy having more shrimps around.) I just haven't pulled the trigger because I worry I won't be able to recognize my original 3 anymore... but if it makes them happier... Any advice?
My 1.5 gallon fishbowl has 4 residents:
3 opae ula (had them since 2011)
1 pipipi snail (had her since 2015)
Many months ago, I moved them from a tiny vase to their current 1.5 gallon fish bowl. The opae ula are doing well, growing big. I had the snail in it's own container and was feeding it for a while, then a while ago I moved her into the 1.5 gal bowl. She has since devoured all the algae and now I am worried she's starving.
I have my fluorescent light on for at least 12 hours a day to try to grow more algae. I even removed some of Mustafa's macro algae and just left a few strands (which are reproducing well still) in hope that more algae would grow on the glass. But alas, my one single female pipipi snail is keeping the fishbowl spotless.
I am inclined to feed her, but I worry about the risk of increasing "organic pollution" in the fishbowl for the opae ula in order to feel my snail.
Am I just being overly worried? Maybe there's enough algae in there for her to eat?
Or maybe it's ok to feed her, and the "organic pollution" will be absorbed by the macro-algae, which I can simply thin out every so often to keep the load in balance?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Here's a photo of their home:
As a side note: I have been leaning back and forth on buying them more friends. I'm thinking of buying 10 shrimps from this site, so I'll have a total of 13 shrimp in this 1.5 gallon bowl. (From the product page description, it seems fine. I read a lot from Fuku Bonsai and it seems the shrimps enjoy having more shrimps around.) I just haven't pulled the trigger because I worry I won't be able to recognize my original 3 anymore... but if it makes them happier... Any advice?