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I’m thinking of adding a snail colony in an air driven HOB Fluval breeding box on the puffer tank. Will be easier to keep the main tank clean as I can overfeed and siphon off mess easily away from the sand. It should prevent a total massacre if the puffers go on a snail killing rampage and...

Thanks for all the extra info guys. I have a tank with 10 little ‘murder beans’ so they should be predatory enough control them. Darrel Can you pm me with your paypal info and I’ll send the money over friends and family and send my address. Sorry I didn’t mean to go quiet on you. Have a...

Thank you so much for all the info. Yes please to some. Let me know cost etc

Hi I’m hoping for some advice on adding gammarus to my 120l pea puffer tank. Am I crazy to consider adding these to a planted tank? Are they going to destroy the plants? How fast are they? Will puffers be able to keep the population under control? If they are OK to add which type are...

I thought the tetras would wipe out the daphnia in a day or two. They do eat some Hoping the constant supply of live food and dense planting gets the tetras spawning

I wouldn’t know where to get black worms from. I monitor the number of ramshorn snails that appear when I add an algae wafer. If there are a lot I remove some and add them to the pond. If the numbers are increasing I use a turkey baster and airline to clean the substrate a little

Thanks for the advice. I’ve assumed that having a healthy and increasing number of daphnia and shrimp in the tank means the tank is fine. Water tests show no ammonia, nitrite and low nitrate whenever I test. The tank is heavily planted above and below the water. Very little substrate is...

Question for those of you who grow your own live foods. I seeded my ember tetra tank with Daphnia and Tubifex long before adding fish and shrimp. I add spirulina powder to the tank every few days to sustain the daphnia. Initially the tetras ignored the daphnia completely as they were...

Seen them back on sale this year. I used to have pink, white and blues and supplied the local shop for a bit in exchange for fish food

Apple snails used to destroy my amazon sword plants in days in my big tank. Back when plants were cheap to replace

I have weird mini fish. The pygmy cories and ember tetras in filter less Walstad tank completely ignore the tubifex and daphnia in the tank. The critters have been there for weeks. I blister when I get bitten so growing on mosquitoes isn’t ideal

Possibly. It is all floating giving them room to perch and lay eggs. I pushed the hay down with a weld mesh panel and took the surface water with a jug to remove as many as possible The water itself tests clean and clears within 24 hours. I add some green water from another older water...

I hope so. Just need to find an easy way to separate them from the hay I added on a recommendation from here. Thank you

I was trying to raise daphnia. Just dipped a jar to check if I need to add more green water. The water is full of these things. Photos taken from a video as I don’t know how to add the video. Are these mosquitoes? I assume whatever these are are safe for the bigger fish. Not sure I want...

Brilliant thank you. Have found a second waterbutt free locally so I can set up two cultures and maybe use some of the water too

Thanks for all the good advice again

I’m learning a lot from your advice on live foods but still have questions. Thank you for all the help. I have a open topped waterbutt outside that housed an uninvited but welcome supply of daphnia and other little live foods until Hubby decided to and move it a few weeks ago. I refilled it...

The fish foods I have contain a lot of algae and pong. My beagles come running from everywhere to investigate What are those worms you're feeding / inadvertently culturing? Tubifex. Added a tiny pinch to see if the fish would take them. Thought a few survivors might turn the sand over and...

Thanks for all the advice. I ordered some Walter worms for now. I did find a reasonably priced listing for grindal worms but they sold out so I’ll see how the first lot work out and order some others later. Going to give vinegar eels a go too storing the bottles in the garage. Might be...

I’m thinking of starting a microworm culture for my Pygmy corys and ember tetras but as my husband struggles with the smell of repashy, green and the infusoria culture I started recently I need to find the least smelly option. They really aren’t great at eating anything. They take some micro...

Cable tie a sponge or media net over intakes so tiny tank inhabitants are safe.

I’m reading ‘An alternative Aquarium: A Robust Habitat‘ by Matt Owens as it is free with my Kindle subscription. The author recommends adding pond snails, tubifex and scuds as the top three invertebrates to add as a natural part of the tank ecosystem. When I first got into the hobby I...

I have the pat mini filter powerhead with a double sponge air filter attached. The central pipe was a good fit for the opening of the powerhead. I heated and crimped some airline to put on the airline nozzle to block it. The sponges are really dense. You can even buy the double filters...

Two will soon multiply if you need more. I bought a couple many years ago for my 500l. They bred enough I was able to send some to people in this forum in the past. My tank lasted 10 years. When I tore it down last week there were 10 live assassin snails and loads of empty snail shells in...

Where are you? I believe it is illegal to sell apple snails in some countries. People may pay for unusual colours of ramshorn snails and maybe MTS but the other snails are a pest that people get with plants and buy assassins snails to eradicate. Can’t imagine many experienced hobbyists...

Ramshorns will eat damaged plant growth but won’t damage healthy plants (if I’m wrong someone will correct me.) They eat surplus food and detritus. They only become a problem if your tank is out of balance e.g. overfeeding or too much algae

Ramshorn would get my vote in the early days. They are far hardier than nerites. Apple snails are illegal in many countries including the UK. Back when I kept them they’d munch on my sword plants and breed like crazy. I kept pink and purple ones and supplied my lfs and still removed huge egg...

He thought they’d be OK as the tank was heavily planted

I used to have a very small shrimp tank and it was teeming with CRS shrimp. It never had a problem. Only stopped keeping them as my husband dropped them into my 500l when he decided to decorate the room so he could move the tank. The big fish had a feast 😳. I lost interest after that

From the colour it looks like a ramshorn

Bamboo shrimp are another type that likes to leave the tank and go for a wander. We lost a few that way

Ours are good at hiding. I used to have a dedicated shrimp tank. When it started to leak, my husband panicked and tipped the whole lot into our big tank (with big filters and big fish). Some of the cherry shrimp were eaten and a lot more were rescued from filters. The Amanos just vanished...

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If you are going to do a fishless cycle with household ammonia, don't add any plants until after the cycle and keep the lights off otherwise the tank will be a mess with algae. Keep feeding the tank with ammonia until it is all processed within 12 hours then your tank is cycled. A heavily...

Excellent! :) My toddler calls the shells ghost shrimps.. They do look a bit like the real thing.

I've had cherry shrimp and use easycarbo in their tank at 1.5 x min dose. Started with 5 and ended up with hundreds before tearing their tank down a few months ago.

Might be worth keeping an eye on rareaquatics. They stock unusual shrimps but don't have bumblebee shrimps at the moment. Might be worth dropping them a line though

All inverts are really sensitive to ammonia and nitrite. I know people on here have ditched the test kits but it is worth considering. How big are the rams. Could they be nipping at them? The ottos, shrimp and snails will all be competing for food to some extent. Depending on the size and...

If you can't find them locally Sweet Knowle Aquatics are selling them online.

I'd get some green water going first then add the dapnia. Don't know what sort of water quality your damsel fly nymph needs but you shouldn't need to let the whole outdoor tank turn green. Just culture some algae in jam jar of old aquarium water and dribble a bit in each day. Here's a link...

As far as I know daphnia will happily eat the algae in green water and survive in rain water butts so you shouldn't need anything special for them. They are sometimes suggested as a rather impractical 'cure' for green water in fishtanks. You should be able to pick up a bag of them from your...

I have some with White stripes and some with green on top of their backs. It may just be coincidence but the ones with stripes all seem to be egg laden females.

All but one of the rams look like girls. They will go into a 5x2x2 425l tank in a few months with the option of removing the pair to the 90l if trouble breaks out. Hopefully the new tank will be big enough for them. Fingers crossed.

I've got loads of CRS in with two adult and 4 baby german rams. The CRS numbers are increasing. Also found about 50 in the tank that I tore down at the weekend and that had dwarf chain loaches in it. Think I must have moved a few shrimplets over on wood or plants and they obviously thrived...