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I was just wondering if any of you keep your wood shrimp with applesnails. They seem to be the perfect mix. The snails produce infusoria for the shimp and they don't seem to bother each other. I've observed snails crawling over a filtering shimp a couple of times. In the beginning it freaked me out,...

i just got my visi 50 watts heater that i am currently using for my 10 gal. is it dangerous for shrimps? also would u recommend putting the heater vertically or horizontally. thank you in advance. I have a visi term 25W in a 3 gallon tank, and I have never had any problems. It's a bit large and chu...

Thanks for the responses.

I moved them to my snail tank yesterday, and they seem to be doing great.

The've settled down on a horribly ugly status which is placesd in the current from the filter, and they are filtering all the time.

Bradimus wrote:

abc wrote: I read a thread from a person who never changes the water in the tank, but only adds water as it evaporates.

That's me. I don't recommend it for everyone.

Just out of interest, do you know what your pH and kH are in the tank?

Thanks very much for your answers! and I add extra calcium and iodide. A waste of time and money. Hrm... Our water is soft around here, and pretty much all the sites I've seen so far recommend adding at least extra calcium to snail tanks. My snails have very nice shells at the moment, so I hope I'm ...

Hi all, I bought two wood shrimp (about 1 inch each) from my LFS a couple of days ago. So far they are quarantined in my cycled, planted, 6 gallon Eclipse tank. (everything I get from my LFS, including plants, needs to be quarantined for at least 6 weeks... the guy actually tried to sell me a half-d...