gimme30
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Until the beginning of this year I never made a serious effort to keep live plants. My first attempt years ago was a complete failure-this was when they sold by the cents, not dollars. Aquascaping wasn't even a word.
No biggie, I don't have a problem with plastic plants and my tanks never looked like Bozo the clown trying to fit into a drag convention.
But I can appreciate their benefits to livestock so I decided to try them again.
So, along with algae I've never had to deal with before, now I've got pest snails. This isn't my first rodeo with the little nasties. I've purposely introduced them to tanks whose inhabitants viewed them as tasty slime covered treats.
But I'm not keeping anything that eats them now and I absolutely despise them, so I've been on a mission to eradicate every last one. A seek and destroy, but without the RPGs, sort of mission.
I may have found my RPG. Unfortunately it came from a place I refuse to do business with due to their unethical practices but it was the only place I could find it and, like I said, I'm on a mission.
It comes in tablet form and is administered over a 3-day period. It claims to be fish, plant, and shrimp safe, and while the ingredients are vague (50mg snail paralysis agent, 180mg snail stimulate agent, no copper) I can confirm no fish or shrimp deaths as of today.
The plants? Hard to tell as dying is their normal state of being. It hasn't accelerated at least.
Now this may change, as the instructions state to do a 50% water change after treatment, which I completely ignored on purpose. #1 if it's safe, then why bother. #2 if it works, then mo' is betta'.
The instructions also state that it will take care of 90% of them which I'd rate conservative as there are very few left. But as we all know, for snails, one means LEGION. You're supposed to do another treatment the following week to take care of any newly hatched snails and I am doing exactly that today.
It's really too early to make a definitive judgement but so far #7 has lived up to it's claims.
No biggie, I don't have a problem with plastic plants and my tanks never looked like Bozo the clown trying to fit into a drag convention.
But I can appreciate their benefits to livestock so I decided to try them again.
So, along with algae I've never had to deal with before, now I've got pest snails. This isn't my first rodeo with the little nasties. I've purposely introduced them to tanks whose inhabitants viewed them as tasty slime covered treats.
But I'm not keeping anything that eats them now and I absolutely despise them, so I've been on a mission to eradicate every last one. A seek and destroy, but without the RPGs, sort of mission.
I may have found my RPG. Unfortunately it came from a place I refuse to do business with due to their unethical practices but it was the only place I could find it and, like I said, I'm on a mission.
It comes in tablet form and is administered over a 3-day period. It claims to be fish, plant, and shrimp safe, and while the ingredients are vague (50mg snail paralysis agent, 180mg snail stimulate agent, no copper) I can confirm no fish or shrimp deaths as of today.
The plants? Hard to tell as dying is their normal state of being. It hasn't accelerated at least.
Now this may change, as the instructions state to do a 50% water change after treatment, which I completely ignored on purpose. #1 if it's safe, then why bother. #2 if it works, then mo' is betta'.
The instructions also state that it will take care of 90% of them which I'd rate conservative as there are very few left. But as we all know, for snails, one means LEGION. You're supposed to do another treatment the following week to take care of any newly hatched snails and I am doing exactly that today.It's really too early to make a definitive judgement but so far #7 has lived up to it's claims.
