hey everyone!
I’m Looking for opinions and suggestions from any one out there with experience on the subject! I have a lot of diatoms (brown algae) covering the things In my tank. I’ve mostly been spending some time cleaning it off my plants because I’m concerned with it blocking light. I started doing research on snails because the ghost shrimp in my tank don’t seem to like it. It seems like nerite snails are the most popular and effective for clean up and also the eggs will not hatch in fresh water. While cleaning up some of the plants yesterday I noticed I picked up some hitchhikers on my new plants! I found two tiny snails that seem to have doubled in size overnight. And Last night iM pretty sure i seen them mating too. Like I said they are pretty tiny so I can’t really tell what they are… any one out there able to ID them? Bladder snails maybe? Should I leave them in to help with the brown filth in my tank or will they completely overtake my tank? What do ya guys think?? Posting pictures of the snails and a picture to give ya guys an idea of how bad the diatoms are. Thanks!
I’m Looking for opinions and suggestions from any one out there with experience on the subject! I have a lot of diatoms (brown algae) covering the things In my tank. I’ve mostly been spending some time cleaning it off my plants because I’m concerned with it blocking light. I started doing research on snails because the ghost shrimp in my tank don’t seem to like it. It seems like nerite snails are the most popular and effective for clean up and also the eggs will not hatch in fresh water. While cleaning up some of the plants yesterday I noticed I picked up some hitchhikers on my new plants! I found two tiny snails that seem to have doubled in size overnight. And Last night iM pretty sure i seen them mating too. Like I said they are pretty tiny so I can’t really tell what they are… any one out there able to ID them? Bladder snails maybe? Should I leave them in to help with the brown filth in my tank or will they completely overtake my tank? What do ya guys think?? Posting pictures of the snails and a picture to give ya guys an idea of how bad the diatoms are. Thanks!