Recent content by frothhelmet

The problem is I have other snails I want to keep in the tank (which the limpets compete against), and generally these formulations contain copper which will also kill shrimp and embed itself in your silicone preventing keeping any invertebrates in that tank in the future.

Yeah well, there was a time I liked them too. But then they blanketed my front glass and didn't go away. Any case, they compete with my Theodoxus Fluviatilis snails - so glad for them to be gone. They came into my tank on some Elodia Densa from a long-time LFS I put into another tank, and when I...

I had a tank with freshwater limpets - Acroloxus Lacustris and they were obscuring the glass on my 37 gallon tank and didn't 'naturally go away' with time - had them for 2 years! Really bothered me in fact. No one seemed to know how to get rid of them, but I recently added a juvenile angelfish...

I gave my friend some Theodoxus nerites and he had a hidden assassin snail in his tank, and yes I saw it eating one it must have killed. Though theos are smaller than the normal nerites.

Cool. Morphologically they look like Crystals.

So cool. Why do you think your colony died off without replenishing?

What is a circulator? You just mean a filter?

Where is the best place in London to buy shrimps and snails these days? I am always looking for something out of the ordinary...

Just curious what shrimps everyone is keeping in the UK besides Cherries and Crystals. Post here with your experiences and pics if you can :)

Get some Theodoxus if you like nerites but don't like their eggs. Win win.

The leaves are healthy, but your frogbit roots are being eaten. You added a new partially or fully vegetarian fish like a Serevum and it is eating the roots. Look at them, they have been systematically 'cut'. Many things eat frogbit roots. Ramshorn snails for instance will eat the fine filaments...

If you get moss from an established tank it will have some. That's probably your best bet. Try the forum for some moss out of a member's tank.

Looks to be a type of nerite. More than that I can't say as I have never seen one with a shell like that before for sale. Where did you get it?

Theodoxus Fluviatilis nerite eggs rapidly disappear and do not mess up scapes. These are the ones that successfully breed in freshwater. I would get those.

Afro moss.....................Yes Frequency of trimming required - due to highly compact growth, approximately once every year - or less.