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Just my luck. I've decided to buy a new plant and fill some empty space in one corner of my tank. A nearby store had just the right one, a nice big healthy Cabomba caroliniana . After a few hours of washing and picking some unwanted guests (mostly snails), I've put the plant into the tank. It looked...

Magnetite and other iron minerals are often found in volcanic rocks, dust and sand. This black gravel is probably volcanic.

Newjohn wrote:Or more commonly called the Amano Shrimp.

Isn't the correct latin name Caridina multidentata?

These snails are Gyraulus albus, a common snail and eggs look like they belong to RCS.

They should be ok in any hard water with an alkaline Ph. Sadly they are not breedable in aquaria. Most aquaria with good lighting will support a few of these without special feeding. They are wonderful algae eaters. Exactly, they live in fresh water and even lay some eggs. And they love diatoms, ju...

Hello Could someone identify this hermit crab for me? The information I got from the pet store are very sparse. Supposed to be a brackish water species... http://images21.fotosik.pl/285/ac38a0da122ca838med.jpg http://images21.fotosik.pl/285/75ec967874020d04med.jpg http://images21.fotosik.pl/285/5acb...

I've read that T. fluviatilis is found in lakes, but I always wondered if this was a misidentification, because it would be impossible for youngsters to reach the sea. Yes, this would be impossible, but they really live and breed in lakes. This is where I found my snails 3 years ago. And I know the...

It sounds like some of the people on this site have raised Theodoxus spp. without any salt at all? So what is the natural habitat? Hi I've raised and successfully bred european nerite Theodoxus fluviatilis in freshwater, without any saltwater stage at all. They live in rivers and lakes with gravely...

On the contrary. They make little excrements, just like shrimp (well, maybe even less). Unlike nerites, apple snails are known to make a lot of waste.

Neonshrimp wrote:Thanks for the information.

Allex, are all of your pictures from a fresh water tank?

Yes, like zwergkrebszuechter said, all of them live and breed in fresh water tank. They feed mainly on diatoms and are very good at it too.

I got lots of emails telling me it's nonsense and that they are saltwater animals etc..etc. Of course these people did not know what they were talking about. Yes, you are right. I got some some strange e-mails too when I started breeding some of european nerites ( Theodoxus fluviatilis ). With a lo...

Taheton is right, this isn't Caridina japonica, they don't lay a few big eggs. It's rather something like this. They have a confusing name Mini-Amano...

Hello This is my first post and sorry for my bad English. all lava rock originates in the generally homogenous molten mantle beneath the earth's crust, and black lava from different areas of the world would likely have similar metal content No, there are many different types of magma/lava, some have...