Hi all a quick run down of what happend lately.
Ive had my Nerite snails for about 4months, they live with a single Betta in a 30litre tank everything was fine they were moving around eating all the algae until recently.50% of water is changed every 10 days an all water parameters seem decent PH 7.4 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 0 GH 5 KH 4.
The tank used to have quite a bit of algae hence why I got Nerite snails as didn't want to have any other fish with my Betta an figured snails would be fine with him.
I recently emptied the tank completely as wanted to change all the gravel an setup.
The old gravel was white and I replaced it with fine black gravel i washed it twice before I put it into the tank, the algae was cleaned off the glass completely it was spotless. I filled the tank up an the let it run for a few hours to get some of the remaining dust sucked up into filter. I put my Betta an Nerite snails back into the tank and after 5 days of having the new setup I found both my Nerites dead turned upside down an brown on the inside, yesterday they were moving around,an both died today strangely. Water parameters are the same except the GH 03 an KH 02 has dropped from the previous setup of GH 05 KH 04.
Would lack of algae be the cause of there deaths or the dust on the glass? Thoughts on how they died?
Ive had my Nerite snails for about 4months, they live with a single Betta in a 30litre tank everything was fine they were moving around eating all the algae until recently.50% of water is changed every 10 days an all water parameters seem decent PH 7.4 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 0 GH 5 KH 4.
The tank used to have quite a bit of algae hence why I got Nerite snails as didn't want to have any other fish with my Betta an figured snails would be fine with him.
I recently emptied the tank completely as wanted to change all the gravel an setup.
The old gravel was white and I replaced it with fine black gravel i washed it twice before I put it into the tank, the algae was cleaned off the glass completely it was spotless. I filled the tank up an the let it run for a few hours to get some of the remaining dust sucked up into filter. I put my Betta an Nerite snails back into the tank and after 5 days of having the new setup I found both my Nerites dead turned upside down an brown on the inside, yesterday they were moving around,an both died today strangely. Water parameters are the same except the GH 03 an KH 02 has dropped from the previous setup of GH 05 KH 04.
Would lack of algae be the cause of there deaths or the dust on the glass? Thoughts on how they died?
