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haha, thanks! I love your hair color

He’s named Lincoln.

How to you keep sand clean? I try to siphon our what I can, but it never seems to be enough.

Yeah, it always costs more than you think it will. My email for art is on the website!

Well, I haven’t started school quite yet, but I’m sure I will be.

Yes, I always have things I never take pictures of. I seem to have come down with multiple tank syndrome, so I don’t have time to update the website between school, drawing, and water changes on 8 tanks.

Yes I like dogs. Here is a pic of mine. I also do commissions, so people always want pictures of their dogs drawn.

I might need to update the website with all these people looking at it lol

I think aquascaping can qualify as a visual art!

aww thanks! I appreciate it. @JuiceBox52 does wonderful art, I love seeing it. I’m terrible with a pencil, so I like the black and white things she does.

well, I am slightly obsessed with them ;)

that’s cool. Lol weather is terrible for fish outside, you never know when it might snow in the middle of summer. :lol:

See, I expected you to be older too!

Haha, do I sound older? I didn’t realize. I just turned 16.

Well, seems I’m a bit late. How did you all think I would look?

That’s what I suspected, but I bought it new. Can’t figure out where it would have come from. The same thing happens in another tank too...

Is 5 ppm high enough to kill them? It never gets above that in the new tank. I can see why going from such high to low extremes would be a shock, but new snails wouldn’t have a problem in the low nitrates, would they?

That's good, they do love algae. Be careful with overfeeding if you don't want them to take over the tank. A few snails are cute, but 100s of them squirming (what do you call a bunch of snails moving over the substrate?) isn't always the look you're going for.

Depending on how long they were there, they may have hatched. Baby bladder snails are soooo tiny, so you may not be able to see them until they get bigger. I find them cute too. :)

yes, that makes sense. The weird thing is that when I buy snails, they die in the clean tank as well.

oh sorry, I just realized that you said you already put her in her own tank. I that no matter what you treat with, she should be on her own, because you don't want to add meds to the main tank. I wish I could help more, but I don't want to offer incorrect information.

Anything and everything. Blanched veggies, algae wafers, fish food, shrimp food, homemade food, etc.

I bought them not too long ago, and they came like that. I’m on the well, and the water is pretty hard. I also feed them and add calcium to the water.

Did you cycle the tank before adding fish?

They always are. Even if I move the snails to the new tank after the water change, so both have similar nitrates, the same thing happens.

Yeah, that’s why I’m so stumped. I had a few in a breeder box for a while, in the high nitrate tank, and they were breeding and eating like normal. (Not thriving, but doing well.) as soon as I tried moving them to the cleaner water, they would eventually die. As soon as I saw the same thing...

Yeah, it’s a little out of control. All my other tanks stay around 5-10, when due for a water change, but normally 0. That goldfish tank always has high nitrates.

Yes. That’s why I tried drip acclimating, to see if I could help them adapt to the better parameters.

The nitrates are much higher than I normally would find safe. The tank is a goldfish tank, due for a water change today anyway.

Wow!! They're beautiful!!

I’m no expert on treating sick fish, so I will not offer any information there. I can say that it would be a good idea to isolate the fish in its own tank, so that whatever is wrong with it can be resolved without it spreading. Some more knowledgeable people here can advise on whaa exactly to...

Tnk "The tank is basically new, 2 weeks with fish." Did you cycle it before adding them? Just checking. Yes, I would treat the fin rot. I certainly wouldn't continue letting it get worse. Definitely keep up with the water changes, you want the water clean when the fish are healing. Livebearers...

I normally have gloves on. (made for aquarium use) No, I don't think there is any chance of contaminants in the air. I haven't done a copper test. I run all my tanks on well water. The strange thing is that the snails do fine in a bigger tank I have, with the same water. Even when I fill the...

What are the nitrites? Did you cycle the tank before adding fish?

beautiful fish!!

Sounds like the platys may have fin rot. Fish sometimes attack or nip at fish that are injured.