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Tropical Fish Keeping => Gallery Showcase => Topic started by: chriswhy1967 on September 09, 2015, 07:30:49 PM

Title: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: chriswhy1967 on September 09, 2015, 07:30:49 PM

Pic of new tank set up time too wait now.

Title: Re: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: GersBantamJR on September 09, 2015, 08:01:51 PM

Tank looks great, wish I had one that size. :cheers:

Title: Re: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: chriswhy1967 on September 09, 2015, 11:00:27 PM

seems I have live stock in already , seen two small snails speeding around.http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/forums/Smileys/default/violent1.gif

Title: Re: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: Anne on September 12, 2015, 05:50:24 PM

Tank looks good, I especially like the back wall and the bubbles coming out of the submarine.

Now all you need is some fish to keep your snails company once your tank is cycled.

Anne.  :cheers:

Title: Re: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: chriswhy1967 on September 15, 2015, 10:40:28 PM

I started to pluck the snails, started seeing a lot of eggs on the glass, would like to see the plants live long enought for the fish to arrive lol

Title: Re: New Tank set up and started cycling
Post by: Sue on September 16, 2015, 09:35:53 AM

Don't worry about snails. Most of them don't eat live plants.
Snails usually arrive with plants. The most common ones are ramshorns (small ones that grow a couple of mm) and pond snails. These will both eat dead plants and left over food (once you have fish) and algae but don't usually touch live plants. If they crawl over a plant looking like they are eating it, they are usually eating algae or biofilm off the surface of the leaf.

We once had a member who had a nerite snail stow away on a plant. If those are what you have, welcome them with open arms. They are just about the best algae eater ever.