It has been said that the snails will not eat the the plants and will only be a problem if there is too many. They will eat dead leaves. I am trying to keep the plants alive (I'm not sure of the plant. It was reddy pink when I bought it) but it leaves deteriorate in the water. I have sucked up hundreds of snails, they are less now that I have been keeping vacuuming the gravel but the plant roots get disturbed
With practice, care and some skill, you should be able to hover the end of your syphon tube just over the surface of the gravel. It'll then remove the loose waste.
It could be one of those pretty red plants that are not really aquatic, but that fish shops like to sell and customers buy because they look pretty...for a short while.
Two words...floating and plants.
You still NEED a proper test kit.
There is a slope on the tank I'm not sure if it's my cabnet it's sitting on. I'm still trying to work out which way around the slope angle is to where the dirt will go. LolWith practice, care and some skill, you should be able to hover the end of your syphon tube just over the surface of the gravel. It'll then remove the loose waste.
Probably not much help to you now, but when I set up my tanks, I always made sure that there was a slope in my substrate, leading down to the front. This ensures that a lot of any waste will flow 'downhill', to where it's relatively easy for me to remove it.
It could be one of those pretty red plants that are not really aquatic, but that fish shops like to sell and customers buy because they look pretty...for a short while.
Two words...floating and plants.
You still NEED a proper test kit.
Although here in Blighty, our water supplying companies have websites with all that sort of info on it. Perhaps your water supplier has a similar set-up?
I do my water change with buckets. Is it ok to put all of the water conditioner into the first bucket and do the other two buckets with no water conditioner or is it advisable to split the amount of conditioner into half and half?With practice, care and some skill, you should be able to hover the end of your syphon tube just over the surface of the gravel. It'll then remove the loose waste.
Probably not much help to you now, but when I set up my tanks, I always made sure that there was a slope in my substrate, leading down to the front. This ensures that a lot of any waste will flow 'downhill', to where it's relatively easy for me to remove it.
It could be one of those pretty red plants that are not really aquatic, but that fish shops like to sell and customers buy because they look pretty...for a short while.
Two words...floating and plants.
You still NEED a proper test kit.
Although here in Blighty, our water supplying companies have websites with all that sort of info on it. Perhaps your water supplier has a similar set-up?
I always do it a bucket at a time;
You will soon learn how to release sucked up gravel & just remove water. Experiment. Don‘t suck up continuously . There are youtube videos that show how this is done.
I have red ramshorn snails as well. How are you getting rid of them?
Although I had one red ramshorn snail which disappeared. And then one day i woke up and there were all these little snails on the sides of the tank. I just assumed they were the same snails but now I think they are something different. They are very tiny and the bigger ones are about half the size of a little finger even a bit smaller.
The ramshorn hitch-hiked on a plant I think. There was only one and i haven't seen anymore These are another little snails, were in there hundreds a real pest and are very small. I don't know where they came from
Maybe so. But I think mine were baby ramhorns that would soon grow and reproduce. The bigger ones were maybe 5/8 inch. They grew fast, especially in the heated tank, not so much in the cold water tanks.
Yep, never had the problem, but hear it happens. The pet shop I visited yesterday was selling assassin snails for $2.99 each. The owner of the shop said they will eat unwanted snails.
