Recent content by bobs802

yeah it was nearly 5 weeks before i added fish i wanted to keep checking it was ok. seemed nothing happend for ages then bang ammonia was gone then ages again then bang nitrits were gone then i checked for another 10 ish days it was all ok

my assasins are now eating, i had to "teach" them i put a couple of big ones next to them and them took them out now there wizzing about picking them off

yeah pond snail i have a few of these i found them nice to watch while my tank was cycling but then noticed ramshorns too so got some assassin snails to keep them in check after a few days they have now started to eat them, assassin look nice too and are really fun to watch them do there base...

nice one i have just finished cycling a 72l and yeah that took around 8 days to get to 0 ammonia, long wait now untill the nitrate eaters grow mine took another 16 days its well worth the wait

thanks, as soon as i introduced them the biggest one went straight on the wood and has done nothing but lay for the past few days !! other one is nippy enough but seems to ignore pest snails but maybe i just havent seen them pick any off yet, there nice things to watch though and it looks like...

Hello all I have what seem to be vegetarian assassin snails! so far since getting them from a lfs one has done nothing but lay 20+ eggs all over my wood and the other has just raced round the tank all day and night i have watched them for long periods of time and seen pest snails crawl on the...