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Turned over all the rocks. The good news is, I found exactly zero flatworms, as well as all of my ghost shrimp... they hide a lot so I was starting to wonder. I also figured out why this tank never has many pond snails in it... I saw a ghost shrimp DEVOURING a snail! I'm not sure if the shrimp kille...

Aw, dang it. :evil: I thought the flatworm was cool too... I haven't seen it in quite awhile though, if it showed its face (?) while the betta was in there it probably got eaten, but I'll probably turn over the rocks to make sure I can't find it... if it's already too late, I'm fairly certain it was...

Thanks for the update. Nice use of your betta to clear the tank. Thanks... the betta seemed happy in there too, so everybody wins... I have no more worms, betta got to eat worms, and future shrimp don't have to deal with chemicals I might have otherwise used to get rid of worms. I prefer to use nat...

That can work, but remember putting a sponge over the intake will slow down the filter, ie decrease the gallons per hour, so you might want to use a slightly bigger filter. Personally, I just knuckled under and got a sponge filter and airpump, works like a champ. You can also make your own sponge fi...

Yeah, holidays REALLY eat me alive. You all post too much, I haven't been on the site in what must have been ages and there were so many posts to catch up with. :lol: Anyway we have filtration again! But also tiny worms! I guess I was feeding too much, but I put my betta in there and he ate them all...

I would avoid the actinics, personally, for freshwater, as I find they make everything look too BLUE, and are expensive to boot. I agree with you that the yellow thing looks funny, but don't worry, 6500s seem to be a little on the blue side of white anyway, if that makes any sence. Good luck with th...

Neonshrimp, you read my mind... so, I put in a second vote for Blinky.

So update, it was the water. I kept watching the water parameters closely, and yesterday the ammonia spiked! I did a big water change, brought the ammonia down, and all snails are acting normal now. I'm thinking the white spots are scarring from a previous injury, as the shorter feeler seems to be g...

I've seen pictures of your snails, they do indeed knock my socks off. :lol: I'll try the squash... My tank is ten gallons, and it's only been sans filter for about three or four days. Is there a special reason Amquel+ is better? I'll see if I can find some at the LFS... As an update, one of the othe...

I don't think it's egg laying... that was my first thought, so I lowered the water level a little (so the snail was all the way above the water, about three inches between water line and hood) and it just scooted back to half in, half out, and resumed its lap. I'm conditioning the water with Aqua pl...

So, one of my mystery snails is doing something odd. This is in my new (still shrimpless) shrimp tank (also still filterless by the way... freaking broken air pump...). One of the snails sits right at the water line, sort of half in and half out, and is slowly making a lap of the tank. It moves if I...

Sounds like they're growing at least then. Good job! Did you end up keeping the salinity the same, or did you change it?

I've never timed it, so I don't know, but likely ten minutes is about right... enough time to remove the old water, throw it out, and get my daughter out of the fish food, if that means anything to you. Me doing water changes is more performance art than anything scientific with my little helper aro...

There's supposed to be a filter... I have a sponge filter, but the air pump that was supposed to be powering it snuffed it, so the sponge is aging in my community tank. Guess I forgot to mention. :oops: Haven't gotten a new one yet, because I was already over my official "fish money" limit...

Interesting, I didn't realize that some dechlorinators didn't remove chloramines too. When I was using Aqua-Plus, the bottle said to double the dosage if treating for chloramines. Good to know. Aqua plus is pretty good stuff actually, in my book anyway. It does remove chloramine, also does pretty w...