Hi all, I'm having a rather... curious problem.
I've got an 80L tank with 15 Neon Tetra's, 1 Albino Catfish, 2 feeder fish, 6 Apple snails, and several hundred Malasian Trumpet Snails.
I have nothing against the snails, except their sheer number. To combat this I've taken to feeding the fish less, and less often when I do. I don't want to kill off the apple snails, nor do I want to kill the snails by removing them from my tank environment... I know it's weird, but I'd rather have a dying back to a manageable level then torture them in the rubbish bin.
The other problem I have is algae, green spot that only surfaced after my last major water change. Before then, I had less snails and *no* algae. I figure the snails are having a bit of a feasting/breeding carnival with the algae at the moment, which accounts for the snails (But not the large amount of algae in the tank)
To combat both problems, I've decided to shut the lights off until I want to feed the fish, feeding the fish every 2nd day, and hopefully that should kill off the algae (Or at least stop more growing), and then the snail population should scale back as the food supply does likewise.
Sound like a plan?
I've got an 80L tank with 15 Neon Tetra's, 1 Albino Catfish, 2 feeder fish, 6 Apple snails, and several hundred Malasian Trumpet Snails.
I have nothing against the snails, except their sheer number. To combat this I've taken to feeding the fish less, and less often when I do. I don't want to kill off the apple snails, nor do I want to kill the snails by removing them from my tank environment... I know it's weird, but I'd rather have a dying back to a manageable level then torture them in the rubbish bin.
The other problem I have is algae, green spot that only surfaced after my last major water change. Before then, I had less snails and *no* algae. I figure the snails are having a bit of a feasting/breeding carnival with the algae at the moment, which accounts for the snails (But not the large amount of algae in the tank)
To combat both problems, I've decided to shut the lights off until I want to feed the fish, feeding the fish every 2nd day, and hopefully that should kill off the algae (Or at least stop more growing), and then the snail population should scale back as the food supply does likewise.
Sound like a plan?
