SnowyzMom
Fishaholic
EXCUSE ME-this has zip to do with Bettas(my honey is just fine!) and I have NO CLUE how it got in here---verrry embarassing! Mod pls. move to Tropical ChitChat, where I thought I'd put it-THANK YOU! (blushes) Must go find where I put my brains, clearly I didn't have them when THIS got posted! 
While waiting for my stubborn oldies to go to fish heaven by natural causes
, I am highly annoyed at how many filters I'm blowing thru on the main 25-29 gallon tank. Yes, there's a bunch of fish in it, all disgustingly healthy(as in living too long 
) with high aeration. I expect to use up filters fairly regularly, BUT every 2 days or so?
My daughter goes on about how you can brush the filter off, hers last for months and I'm going "I don't think we're talking about the same thing here." I'm referring not to the permanent black sponge foam stuff(I've bin sick for ages I am NOT going to remember the right terms so ! ) I'm referring to the white filter bag that sits next to it and is enclosing loose charcoal over a plastic frame. I am rapidly suspecting my snails! I didn't ask for them, they came with the plants, they came, they saw, they multiplied! I am thinking the blighters get up the intake tube, get macerated by the spinning blades of the motor and it's snail guts that's clogging the filter up entirely within days. You cannot brush this grey slime glue off the filter, it just coats it! 
As I find broken shell splinters on it sometimes I think it's just that my entire filter is turning into one large snail crusher. Could I be wrong? It's a fairly strong motor in there. And once in a while I hear it grinding up a snail when I'm in there doing water changes etc. It doesn't take it long! 
The tank is fine by the way, the inhabitants are having babies, all look great, no illnesses and they're living disgustingly long lives....soooooo IF it's those blankety blank snails dying for a cause in there, how the bleep do I keep them OUT of the intake tube? I thought it was too small for them!(it's only got slits in it...or do they overland it to get inside it? Yeeeks.) I have NO idea how they get in there in the first place but that thick coating of grey slime sure looks like minced jellied snail to me...or what's left of them!
Any thoughts? B)
While waiting for my stubborn oldies to go to fish heaven by natural causes
, I am highly annoyed at how many filters I'm blowing thru on the main 25-29 gallon tank. Yes, there's a bunch of fish in it, all disgustingly healthy(as in living too long ) with high aeration. I expect to use up filters fairly regularly, BUT every 2 days or so? My daughter goes on about how you can brush the filter off, hers last for months and I'm going "I don't think we're talking about the same thing here." I'm referring not to the permanent black sponge foam stuff(I've bin sick for ages I am NOT going to remember the right terms so ! ) I'm referring to the white filter bag that sits next to it and is enclosing loose charcoal over a plastic frame. I am rapidly suspecting my snails! I didn't ask for them, they came with the plants, they came, they saw, they multiplied! I am thinking the blighters get up the intake tube, get macerated by the spinning blades of the motor and it's snail guts that's clogging the filter up entirely within days. You cannot brush this grey slime glue off the filter, it just coats it! As I find broken shell splinters on it sometimes I think it's just that my entire filter is turning into one large snail crusher. Could I be wrong? It's a fairly strong motor in there. And once in a while I hear it grinding up a snail when I'm in there doing water changes etc. It doesn't take it long! The tank is fine by the way, the inhabitants are having babies, all look great, no illnesses and they're living disgustingly long lives....soooooo IF it's those blankety blank snails dying for a cause in there, how the bleep do I keep them OUT of the intake tube? I thought it was too small for them!(it's only got slits in it...or do they overland it to get inside it? Yeeeks.) I have NO idea how they get in there in the first place but that thick coating of grey slime sure looks like minced jellied snail to me...or what's left of them!
Any thoughts? B)
can I have them
OF COURSE it doesn't belong in there/here--in fact I came here this morning looking for the topic over in Tropical Chit Chat where I THOUGHT I had put it. I must be way sicker than I thought! 
