Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

As they say, it must be something in the water 

Well done 

Congratulations @apache6467   

Well done on achieving your A grade. 

Well done @apache6467

@apache6467 - good plan about the julii cories; as cories fare best in groups of 6+ of their own type, they should do well if their numbers increase.

Congratulations Granddaddy Paddy. 

Perhaps the answer is that the number of snails has hit the limit when you see the fish teaming up to push the snails out of the tank. Then what you do is buy a tank of dwarf puffers, or perhaps a single Amazon puffer, and you will never have enough snails ever again. 

Ha, no problem.
Remineralisation chemicals, coral sand substrate, tufa rock and limestone decor. *
Or go the whole hog, throw in some salt as well, head down the brackish route and get some figure eight puffers. *
I saw some figure eight puffers in the local MA 2 weeks ago, so cute. Managed to make it out without purchasing any.

(* Disclaimer: don't do this)

Alternatively, you could just leave the snails alone and admire their adorableness instead. 

I don't know. It's not something I've ever considered.
My snail tank is set up to purposefully encourage them to breed. I will say that I still test the water every week, same as all the other tanks, and I still get 0, 0, 40 in the snail tank (same parameters as tap water) even though I overfeed on purpose, so I can't image that it would upset your water parameters.
Is there a down side to snails?
I don't have posh snails, all mine are pest snails, and have probably ended up in every tank from plants. I did, very briefly, consider assassin snails, then realised that I don't mind having snails in every tank, because I quite like them.
If you like them how can you feed them to your puffers? I hear you cry. Well, only the baby ones go into the puffer tank, anything that is recognisable as a snail is either moved to the snail tank for breeding purposes, or is left in the tank it's in, to potter around enjoying the scenery. Puffers are more adorable than baby pest snails anyway. 
I realise I'm not being much help answering your question. Fiona or Sue would probably be better if you're looking for fact-based, sensible answers to snail questions.

We've just got back from the garden centre with Maidenhead Aquatics in and of course I had to go and look at fish even though I don't have a tank ready for them yet.

Why do penguin tetras look so nice when I've just about decided on Asian fish 


The purple harlequins were bigger than the last visit so they are on the Asian list, as are glowlight danios and stiphodons. 15 to 20 harlies and glowlight danios and half a dozen stiphs.

But now I see penguin tetras. So a South American tank with 15 to 20 of them, 10 cories and what? Something colourful to complement black and white. All  that springs to mind is cardinal or neon tetras.....

I didn't see any of those, but I wasn't looking that intently. It was just the penguins that caught my eye. I'm going to have to look more seriously nearer the time.

I added the last dose of Exit yesterday so now I just need to remove all the med I've added, clean the tank, wash the sand and put that in, then wait till August.

Interestingly, the tank and decor are covered with a loose light brown fluffy stuff, but the black brush algae has almost gone from the plants. Once I hoover up all the fluffy stuff, will the algae come back? I'll have to wait and see.