Hi all,
I'm new here and new to the hobby; thanks for all of the useful advice and tutorials etc. I wanted some advice about adding extra inverts to a small planted tank.
It's a 45cm, 34L tank, which I started about a month ago. I suppose it is high tech though I don't have much CO2 going in because I am nervous of gassing the livestock.
I added some clean up crew: 5 Amano Shrimp and some horned nerve snails who seem happy, and a week ago 6 otos, 2 of whom died after a couple of days, to my distress, but the others seem happy now and are eating and pooping like mad. I want to add some more inverts to make the ecosystem a bit richer, and I ordered a mixed pack off eBay of various snails (dwarf Ramshorn and some other types), arsellus aquaticus, and some gammarus pulex, but I have read some things about the last of these being overly aggressive and attacking nerites. So is this a bad idea? will adding this crowd (6 mixed snails, 4 water louse and 10 XL gammarus pulled) be damaging? What would some alternatives be?
I'm new here and new to the hobby; thanks for all of the useful advice and tutorials etc. I wanted some advice about adding extra inverts to a small planted tank.
It's a 45cm, 34L tank, which I started about a month ago. I suppose it is high tech though I don't have much CO2 going in because I am nervous of gassing the livestock.
I added some clean up crew: 5 Amano Shrimp and some horned nerve snails who seem happy, and a week ago 6 otos, 2 of whom died after a couple of days, to my distress, but the others seem happy now and are eating and pooping like mad. I want to add some more inverts to make the ecosystem a bit richer, and I ordered a mixed pack off eBay of various snails (dwarf Ramshorn and some other types), arsellus aquaticus, and some gammarus pulex, but I have read some things about the last of these being overly aggressive and attacking nerites. So is this a bad idea? will adding this crowd (6 mixed snails, 4 water louse and 10 XL gammarus pulled) be damaging? What would some alternatives be?