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Calcium Nitrate

Westyggx

Westyggx

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Hi all, i noticed alot of my snails started to die and their shells went white, so i bought the above from APF. Does anyone know the correct dosage etc and will this cure my issue?

Cheers
 
Hi. I don't know what the exact dosage should be but I wouldn't of thought you would need a lot. Just increase the dosage slowly until you see an improvement.
 
Matty1983 said:
Are you sure it was a calcium deficiency which killed them. Do you live in a really soft water area then?
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I dont know it was calcium difficiency mate but Alistair had the same issue and he said it could be that, worth a try anyway. I lost a shed load of shrimp a few months back too so could be that. Not sure on the water hardness in my area to be fair i will have to check.

Cheers
 
It's super soft water here and the snails I had would start getting holes in their shells etc and lots of then dying. I checked the water report and started to add a tsp of calcium nitrate in my 5foot and noticed a marked improvement. Your already adding back magnesium in your macro mix. On your tank mike I'd just add just under a quarter teaspoon see how that goes. Mix it in a glass of water first as its like pellets and doesn't desolve straight away


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Hi all,
Any calcium supplement should help. I get a bit if shell attrition in rain-water, in some of the tanks I can keep MTS and Red Ramshorns, but in others with more tannins, the Red Ramshorns shells just dissolve away and the upper spirals of the MTS shells are mainly missing. I can't keep Assassin snails at all, and I think they must require harder water.

The most effective way is to get some more calcium is in the snails diet. You could try a block of chalk, egg shell, an oyster shell or bit of cuttle "bone" and feeding the snails some cabbage/spinach/kale etc, and these techniques do work to some degree, but once you are below about pH6 even the MTS can't grow shell quick enough to survive for long.

cheers Darrel
 
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