Snails Thread 2 - Page 2

22-03-2007, 12:03 AM

interesting link:

http://www.petfish.net/articles/Inve...bra_Nerite.php

Occellatus · 22-03-2007, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by fireopal

interesting link:

http://www.petfish.net/articles/Inve...bra_Nerite.php

Thier young apparently start out life as free swimming larvae which settle into a crawling life as they get older so if you want to breed them, you better use sponge filters in their tank so you don't suck up any babies.

Free swimming larvae! Ive yet to see that.....so far only seen eggs of snails but not free swimming ones as yet....maybe i buy some and throw into my algae infested office corridor setup.

22-03-2007, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Occellatus

Thier young apparently start out life as free swimming larvae which settle into a crawling life as they get older so if you want to breed them, you better use sponge filters in their tank so you don't suck up any babies.

Free swimming larvae! Ive yet to see that.....so far only seen eggs of snails but not free swimming ones as yet....maybe i buy some and throw into my algae infested office corridor setup.

bro,... u keep zebra too huh?

Occellatus · 22-03-2007, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by fireopal

bro,... u keep zebra too huh?

Used to bro.....had 2 of them....one died after some time....real stink. Another one cant remember go where liao, maybe gave to my friend. At that time, just wanted something to clean my tank wall of algae and after few days, tank wall all sparkling clean!

It even helped to scrape all algae from hard to reach places like pipes and on the pumps as well.

22-03-2007, 01:10 PM

Hey bro, which type of algae does zebra eats? Can put in shrimp tank as well?

Occellatus · 22-03-2007, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by natsuboku

Hey bro, which type of algae does zebra eats? Can put in shrimp tank as well?

So far, i only have zebras eating those green algae found on my tank's wall. I dunno about hair algae and all that....Maybe u can just get one from C328 florists and try? Its at 50cents each....can try and monitor for a few days...if it starts to eat up ur plants like moss, then better remove it.

22-03-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Occellatus

So far, i only have zebras eating those green algae found on my tank's wall. I dunno about hair algae and all that....Maybe u can just get one from C328 florists and try? Its at 50cents each....can try and monitor for a few days...if it starts to eat up ur plants like moss, then better remove it.

not $1 meh?