StripySnailGirl04
Fish Addict
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Hello everyone!
You might have guessed now, seeing my username, that I have kept and still keep snails. My aquarium journey started 6-7 years ago. And it is a big one so I'm gonna keep it relatively brief.
One day I get a 40l tank. I know nothing about cycling and am extremely impatient. A week's time sees 4 guppies get put into the tank. One morning and I wake up to, not only 3 guppies, but a skeleton too. This is the beginning of a few "mass extinctions" in my aquarium.
The remaining 2 females and 1 male mate. When I return from holiday, all seems well. There is a tank now overstocked with fry, nothing too bad. Of course nothing too bad until one of the females have an extremely curved spine and can't swim properly. To keep things short: she dies, 2-3 babies die each morning, get zebra and leopard danios, holes with pus seeps out of the fishes, get bare 35l quarantine tank dump it with salt and last fry gets eaten, rest of guppies die, we get assassin snails... It goes on!
Skip forward about 4 years and we start getting fish and plants from a different aquatic shop which is MUCH better.
Skip again to 2022:
I have 2 Rosy Barbs (I know they need shoals of at least 6)
2 Leopard Danios (Again, I know about shoals, am just scared of overstocking)
4 Cardinals (There were initially 6)
3 nerite snails( one laid eggs)
All in a 40 litre tank with only Nana plants, some other plant and assassin snail shells (They died)
My aquarium worries:
Guppies
Anti fluke and wormer
King British tropical flakes (has a guppy on the top)
My ultimate wish :
Get a tank at least 100 litres
I hope you survive my story...
You might have guessed now, seeing my username, that I have kept and still keep snails. My aquarium journey started 6-7 years ago. And it is a big one so I'm gonna keep it relatively brief.
One day I get a 40l tank. I know nothing about cycling and am extremely impatient. A week's time sees 4 guppies get put into the tank. One morning and I wake up to, not only 3 guppies, but a skeleton too. This is the beginning of a few "mass extinctions" in my aquarium.
The remaining 2 females and 1 male mate. When I return from holiday, all seems well. There is a tank now overstocked with fry, nothing too bad. Of course nothing too bad until one of the females have an extremely curved spine and can't swim properly. To keep things short: she dies, 2-3 babies die each morning, get zebra and leopard danios, holes with pus seeps out of the fishes, get bare 35l quarantine tank dump it with salt and last fry gets eaten, rest of guppies die, we get assassin snails... It goes on!
Skip forward about 4 years and we start getting fish and plants from a different aquatic shop which is MUCH better.
Skip again to 2022:
I have 2 Rosy Barbs (I know they need shoals of at least 6)
2 Leopard Danios (Again, I know about shoals, am just scared of overstocking)
4 Cardinals (There were initially 6)
3 nerite snails( one laid eggs)
All in a 40 litre tank with only Nana plants, some other plant and assassin snail shells (They died)
My aquarium worries:
Guppies
Anti fluke and wormer
King British tropical flakes (has a guppy on the top)
My ultimate wish :
Get a tank at least 100 litres
I hope you survive my story...