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Hi everyone, Looking at everyone trying to set up anew tank, it got me tempting too. I don't like fancy looking or too finicky about it. I used one of my 5gal abandoned tank putting in some algae I already cultured a month. I bought : Lava rock 500g + coral crush = Usd2.10 Rain water I collected was...

Mustafa wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:13 pm Eggs don't really float, they are heavier than water. But whatever it is, no need to remove it if it's organic. The shrimp will eventually eat it.

Strangely , the shrimp never touch it. Anyway I just leave them be. Thank you Mustafa.

Mustafa wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:15 pm

MrsT wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2017 12:31 am

Oh I thought Varanus mentioned earlier about Mustafa's snails, I think they are Mts.

The ones I mostly send aren't MTS, they are Tarebia granifera, though sometimes I do send some Melanoides tuberculata.

Thank you for explanation Mustafa. Are the both far distant relatives?

Hi mike.d, hope the other big snails are ok. As i have only 1 horned nerite, i observe him pretty frequently. My shrimps like to do the upside down stunt on water surface and my nerite likes to climb up on the chaeto. My tank is a self cleaning tank which there is a tubing where dirty water flowing ...

Oh what a mess. So the mystery snails confirm dead?
The bigger ones, are they also mystery snails? Do you have the pic?

Hi mike.d, if you don't mind the slow process, I would suggest you get only one (olive nerite or horned nerite). Reason is they are so damn hard working, you don't want your 10 gal tank to be too clean. From my experience Hair algae and blue green algae they don't eat, their food is similar to super...

Very very beautiful, I love the baby snail latching on marimo

:( I read somewhere, ramshorn snail can't survive in brackish. From freshwater to brackish is challenging, probably the other way round like from saltwater to brackish maybe possible I think. So far only nerite and mts work well in brackish. Another possibility are those kinda snail that live in man...

Honestly I never acclimating my one and only small nerite horned snail. It's from my previous cherry shrimp tank I gave up. I transferred it straight away.

I suspect there must be something went in your 10gal tank, either from your hand or tweezers that goes in it. I would be careful of using anything from the 10 gal. If you decide to just keep them in your small emergency tank right now, you can : * Speed up algae growth by , take some of the rocks of...

My small tank about 0.950 gal. I never cycled it, I just add shrimps in. The seller provided a seeded algae coral and it just cycled as it goes. Besides I added a small horned nerite snail to speed up cycle. I don't know, I'm just guessing yours is still cycling very slowly. I don't know to cycle wi...

Hair algae are not from seafan. I can confirm this because I never put seafan . Mine grew on lava rock. These lava rock I washed it with brush prior to setting up my tank. I can only assumed hair algae is normal in brackish tank. Dimmer light won't cause this problem but if expose to the type of lig...

Thank you again DrKirk for the pic. Look at those algae pic 4 it's a heaven place for opae ula

Thanks. Just the light reflection. Wish the shrimp was blue. The tank's doing great. The cheato is staring to get to be a little too much. I'll trim it down soon. I probably have a dozen or so baby opae floating around at this time. I see. I thought oh wow a beautiful blue haha. You might want to b...

Oh mine too, the only green are hair algae and chaeto. I think you better get those burrower snails. Mine was crush Coral as ground and even though it's a small tank it has a self cleaning sistem built, it's better for me to just stick with nerite. nice. What types of snails can burrow into substra...