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    New white rocks from PetSmart

    Rarely, things that are meant to be aquarium safe aren't. Occasionally you can get a real rock that has something bad in it as an unexpected mineral inclusion or a bit of plastic that isn't hardened properly etc. It's exceedingly rare but happens (happened to me with a modestly sized aquarium...
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    High-Quality Snail Photos Needed!

    Side note: the pics in this thread are officially responsible for triggering a relapse in my multiple tank syndrome after 8 years of strictly limiting myself to just two marine tanks. So congrats...y'all made me fall off the wagon and now I've gone and set up a 2gal Planorbid bowl.
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    Life after dinoflagellates

    Interesting problem I may have...these are two of a collection of Astreas that were in the pack. Note that one on the right looks a litle odd. That's because it's got two rather large limpets on its shell! (The other one also has a friend: a Vermetid snail hanging off the side - but I welcome...
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    Fish shipping season rapidly coming to an end…

    Being a chicken person myself, I don’t think they will ever send those to your door - they hold it at the office to pick up even if you use your home address. 300 though…yikes. That probably took up most of the back area lol.
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    Fish shipping season rapidly coming to an end…

    I'm redoing two marine tanks right now with no decent LFS within driving range, so I've been trying to beat that approaching temperature wall. With the weather being milder than normal this year, the in-transit temperatures seem to be less of a problem than the issue of where it sits on arrival...
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    Life after dinoflagellates

    The CUC invasion has landed and is doing well so far. No thanks to the courier - the driver left it sitting completly hidden from view of my house at the bottom of a long driveway with a bend and didn't update the tracking for ages - so it was sitting out in the cold for a while before I even...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Potamopyrgus & Bithynia: Mud Snails Other common names: faucet snails, New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum specifically) Bithynia from CassCats Mud snails are tiny species, some of which resemble a Viviparid - but at a fraction of the scale, typicaly no more than a few millimeers...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Clea (Anentome) helena: Assassin Snails (image from wikipedia) Clea helena is species of freshwater whelk within Buccinidae. The vast majority of other species in the family are saltwater, with some species being common additions to marine aquariums. It is important to note that C. helena's...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Neritidae: Nerite Snails Note that common names for this group have become complex and sometimes seller-specific relating to the color of the shell. Neritina sp. photo from Essjay. See the bottom of this post for additional photos of this highly variable group of snails. Description Nerites...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Cerithoidea (Thiaridae & Pachychilidae): Trumpet and Rabbit Snails Other common names: Malaysian trumpet snails (MTS), Sulawesi snails (Melanoides tuberculata photo from wikipedia) Thiarids are a group of freshwater snails where most species reproduce by parthenogenesis, a form of asexual...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Ampulariidae: Apple Snail and Mystery Snails Other common names: one species of this family, Marisa cornuarietis, is also called the giant ramshorn snail. NOTE: many countries now have laws restricting possession of Ampulariids – check your local laws to determine whether keeping these snails...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Viviparidae: Trapdoor Snails and Live-Bearing Mystery Snails (Note that some members of Amulariidae are also referred to as "mystery snails") Cipangopaludina chinensis: Description Viviparids are a group of snails that give birth to fully-formed young snails instead of laying eggs. They have...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Acroloxidae: Freshwater Limpets (photo by Alexander Mrkvicka on wikipedia) From https://www.fishforums.net/threads/snail-species.75554/ : "They are both really small snails and their hood-shaped and limpet like shells don't have whorls. They aren't really limpets, but they resemble them...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Planorbidae: Ramshorn Snails (Note that this common name is also shared with Marisa cornuarietes in Ampulariidae) (Red Planorbid, photo from wikipedia) Description Planorbids are the second most commonly seen group of accidentally introduced snails in the aquarium trade next to Physids...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Lymnaeidae: Pond Snails (Shell of Lymnaea stagnalis from wikipedia. Note that the opening is on the right, dextral, when the spire is up and the opening is facing forward) Description Lymnaeids are often confused with Physids due to the similar appearance. Despite similarities in size...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Physidae: Bladder and Tadpole Snails Other common names: “pest” snails, pond snails (shared with Lynmaeidae) (Physa acuta, photo by connorlindeman) (Shell of Physa acuta from wikipedia, the most common freshwater aquarim "pest" snail. Note that the opening is on the left, sinistral, when the...
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    Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

    Basic Terminology for Identification Anatomy: Foot: the bottom, muscular portion of the animal used for locomotion. Siphon: a proboscis-like appendage appearing on the side of the shell in some species. Mantle: the soft tissue inside the opening of the shell. Spire: the conical part of a...
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    How many of you measure the temperature of the water when performing water changes?

    I do check temperature, but only by hand. I typically prefer the incomming water to be a bit cooler than the tank water for my sw tanks. Room temp new water into a slightly warmer tank can help stimulate certain coral activity as long as it's a smaller 10-20% WC and not something like 90% (then...
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    Life after dinoflagellates

    Well, 3 days to snails and crabs. Don't ask me why I feel like I have to tidy up for this event given that CUC means "clean-up crew" and it's literally their job to have at the algae mess. I guess I just needed to prove to myself that there's still promise under the thick sludge that likes to...
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    High-Quality Snail Photos Needed!

    Very nice!! I probably need to add “mud snails” as a category to the ID thread, since I don’t think those are in there right now (unless I did add them and forgot…I’ve had the thought more than once in the past couple years lol). They were basically nonexistent as hitchhikers back when I first...
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    flat worms

    I was going to say the same at first, but I'm not seeing the tail sucker I would expect for the ones that look similar to that. So that does say weird flatworm. Where in the room was it found? Or was it directly on/near a HOB filter or something similar where it can get perpetual moisture...
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