Recent content by Seymourfish

In my experience the ramshorns and trumpet snails won't touch the eggs. Mystery snails on the other hand will happily devour any fish eggs that they come across.

I'm really a fan of mystery snails, and I find that the black and Inca (yellow) tend to leave plants alone as long as they are well fed. They will eat any dead plant matter though, so they often get blamed for eating plants.   You might also want to throw in a few Malaysian trumpet snails in the...

Is it optimal? Not by a long shot. But I think that you can keep a handful of mollies healthy in a 10 gallon. I always say you should go for larger though and mine have been kept in 29 gallon and 45 gallon tanks in the past. Like anything else, the minimum should be considered as the minimum...

I personally think that short fin mollies will be fine in a 10 gallon, but only if it has regular water changes, is slightly over-filtered and has enough free swimming space for them.   If it was a sail fin molly, I would definitely agree that 10 gallons would be far too small, and fry will do...