cowgirluntamed
Fish Herder
So far my 20 gallon seems to be going well!! Pygmy chain sword is the only one up in the air, oh well.
Anyway....I wanted to get a colony of Malaysian trumpet snails going. I had three from an order a while ago but wanted more. So, I found an ad on aquabid and purchased 25+ of them!!! Also, I could get a bonus mystery snail(I ended up paying for a second one of these too...lol.)
Now, I know the mystery snails are big eaters. Right now they finally seem to have found the fungus on my wood! So hopefully they will take care of that for me. Anyway, the day after I put them in the tank, I put in an algae wafer. More of the MTS went to that than the mystery snails. I plan on getting a cucumber next time I shop in a day or two. But when do I know to feed them? Right now they are only about the size of a nerite. (I also have harder water -ph is 8.2 and kh and gh are around 12-13 drops from api liquid kit-, do I need to "feed" them some sort of calcium?
Also, what else can I put in there to make sure they get food since there are no fish? (Dying leaves from melting crypts and the fungus but that's it).
One other question...I thought the mts were nocturnal?? Now, I don't see them all out at once but a lot of them are! Is this maybe because there aren't any fish to "scare" them? First time I've had the mts so I was curious. Lol. Also maybe because to me, it's not a really bright tank either. Between the mopani wood releasing it's amazing tannins, I think I have my fluval aquasky dialed in fairly well(at the moment!) It's set with not quite the brightest of the white LEDs(supposed to go up to 6500k on those) but I added more red and blue and just a smidge of green. So far no algae!! I'm also using the seachem flourish with 1 1/2 ml dose. The wisteria is taking off already!! Then I only have 3 flourish root tabs spaced out I think I decent amount. The kliener bar swords are happy!!
Sorry for the rant! I'm having fun with so far(just over a week.......*cough*....) of success!!
Anyway....I wanted to get a colony of Malaysian trumpet snails going. I had three from an order a while ago but wanted more. So, I found an ad on aquabid and purchased 25+ of them!!! Also, I could get a bonus mystery snail(I ended up paying for a second one of these too...lol.)
Now, I know the mystery snails are big eaters. Right now they finally seem to have found the fungus on my wood! So hopefully they will take care of that for me. Anyway, the day after I put them in the tank, I put in an algae wafer. More of the MTS went to that than the mystery snails. I plan on getting a cucumber next time I shop in a day or two. But when do I know to feed them? Right now they are only about the size of a nerite. (I also have harder water -ph is 8.2 and kh and gh are around 12-13 drops from api liquid kit-, do I need to "feed" them some sort of calcium?
Also, what else can I put in there to make sure they get food since there are no fish? (Dying leaves from melting crypts and the fungus but that's it).
One other question...I thought the mts were nocturnal?? Now, I don't see them all out at once but a lot of them are! Is this maybe because there aren't any fish to "scare" them? First time I've had the mts so I was curious. Lol. Also maybe because to me, it's not a really bright tank either. Between the mopani wood releasing it's amazing tannins, I think I have my fluval aquasky dialed in fairly well(at the moment!) It's set with not quite the brightest of the white LEDs(supposed to go up to 6500k on those) but I added more red and blue and just a smidge of green. So far no algae!! I'm also using the seachem flourish with 1 1/2 ml dose. The wisteria is taking off already!! Then I only have 3 flourish root tabs spaced out I think I decent amount. The kliener bar swords are happy!!
Sorry for the rant! I'm having fun with so far(just over a week.......*cough*....) of success!!
