Hello all. I am a Registered Nurse x 42 yrs. (Soon to be retired) that is new to the hobby. I started last Fall into the hobby, went to a very reputable aquatic store and got a new complete setup aquarium. An Aqueon 10 gallon. I let it cycle did all my water test as I was supposed to and when I thought it was ready I went and got a lovely betta fish and a couple of snails. The nerite snails died almost immediately but the mystery snails hung in there.
Long story short I ended up doing everything wrong - over feeding my betta, putting in too many tank mates, & having two strong a flow in his filter output. He became very stressed, got every problem just about that a betta can get & passed away. This was extremely upsetting to my husband and I since our betta Flash was just delightful.
I waited a couple of months and started over we now have another Betta his name is Blue and a very large mysyery snail that's been with me for a while named Finn. They seem to be doing well. They are in the original ten gallon Aqueon aquarium just the two of them together l the tank is planted, heated, filtered. When Flash was sick I also went and got a 5 gallon Fluval tank as a hospital tank for him. I went back to the same aquatic store purchase 2 new mystery snails relatively small which turned out to werebe a male and a female - unplanned. The female named Phoebe started laying egg clutches. She and Marty the male seem to do be doing great until I got a horrendous influx of worms and pest snails. I tried everything I could find short of chemicals to rid the tank of the pest snails & worms including 100% water changes, new substrate, new plants, new everything. To no avail I was unsuccessful so I finally went and got three Cory catfish. Now Larry, Moe , & Curly who have done their job quite well - no more worms and the pest snails though still present are very limited. Phoebe in Marty however, are not faring well. They are picked on continuously by these three Cory catfish. There are no more snail clutches & Marty hardly ever moves and I never see either one of them eat anyting.
Pease help with any suggestions what I should do to help my two mystery snails. I have a third aquarium presently cycling it's another Aqueon 10-gallon but it's going to take awhile since my API water test show that the nitrates are still only at 0.
I don't want to lose my mystery snails.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
BTW Larry, Moe & Curly seem to be doing just great in the five gallon Fluval.
I'm not terribly fond of them however since they pick on my two snails unmercifully.
Sorry for the long post.
Long story short I ended up doing everything wrong - over feeding my betta, putting in too many tank mates, & having two strong a flow in his filter output. He became very stressed, got every problem just about that a betta can get & passed away. This was extremely upsetting to my husband and I since our betta Flash was just delightful.
I waited a couple of months and started over we now have another Betta his name is Blue and a very large mysyery snail that's been with me for a while named Finn. They seem to be doing well. They are in the original ten gallon Aqueon aquarium just the two of them together l the tank is planted, heated, filtered. When Flash was sick I also went and got a 5 gallon Fluval tank as a hospital tank for him. I went back to the same aquatic store purchase 2 new mystery snails relatively small which turned out to werebe a male and a female - unplanned. The female named Phoebe started laying egg clutches. She and Marty the male seem to do be doing great until I got a horrendous influx of worms and pest snails. I tried everything I could find short of chemicals to rid the tank of the pest snails & worms including 100% water changes, new substrate, new plants, new everything. To no avail I was unsuccessful so I finally went and got three Cory catfish. Now Larry, Moe , & Curly who have done their job quite well - no more worms and the pest snails though still present are very limited. Phoebe in Marty however, are not faring well. They are picked on continuously by these three Cory catfish. There are no more snail clutches & Marty hardly ever moves and I never see either one of them eat anyting.
Pease help with any suggestions what I should do to help my two mystery snails. I have a third aquarium presently cycling it's another Aqueon 10-gallon but it's going to take awhile since my API water test show that the nitrates are still only at 0.
I don't want to lose my mystery snails.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
BTW Larry, Moe & Curly seem to be doing just great in the five gallon Fluval.
I'm not terribly fond of them however since they pick on my two snails unmercifully.
Sorry for the long post.
