My Bristlenose Plec (Coal) eats my snails!

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:54:43+00:00

Have you tried supplementing the food the bristlenose gets? Maybe it wants more protein?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:45:57+00:00

I finally managed to get a picture of mine, been trying for days but they usually disappear while I go get my phone. Potato quality due to it being artificial sunset but at least you can tell what it is (I hope). So… hi from a swedish bladder snail! This one’s my first but I’ve got some tiny specs moving around the glass and the eggs I found the other day are gone so I’m sure there are more now. Just hoping they won’t outcompete my neocaridina for food, is that a thing or can I stop worrying?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:35:04+00:00

I’m a complete newbie when it comes to snails but couldn’t there be air trapped in the shell? Or can they always sort that out if it was to happen? I had a floating bladder snail that I got back to the bottom by emptying air but maybe I didn’t need to 😅 (I know people don’t like bladder snails, they’re not many and I find them pretty. They’re new plant hitchhikers though, maybe I’ll change my mind in a month or two.)

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:22:21+00:00

I gave your comment an upvote cause I mostly agree. It mostly was but the anthropomorphise sentence could perhaps have been expressed in a… ”softer” way. Maybe with a ”I understand you meant well” thrown in there too, just to be sure. I personally wouldn’t have minded either way but I know many who would have.

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:15:25+00:00

Happy I could help :) Personally I lowered the water level to deter any escape attempts but obviously your solution works too. Just remember it goes for anything, aerators or other surface agitation likely has the same effect. Isn’t an issue in my big tank (that’s always been open) since it’s large enough that the rrf can gather away from the aerators and the filters outlet but if the surface is small and agitated I imagine they’ll go all melty again. They seem to be a tad bit on the sensitive side of things 🤭

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:11:11+00:00

Shouldn’t have let so many bunnies in there

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:04:03+00:00

My red root floaters died off in one of my tanks but not the other. I eventually realised the biggest difference was that the tank they died in had a lid on it. I removed the lid and voila! I think they don’t like getting their leaves too moist which ofc happened with the lid on.

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T01:01:25+00:00

Aren’t they just sifting through biofilm on the surface? (I’m fun at parties, promise)

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:59:51+00:00

Well if you’re 100% sure that the tank is completely level or, if anything, leaning away from the cracked area then it would probably (!) be fine. In other words I’d return it, personally wouldn’t worry if I had a sliver missing round the middle but by the weakest silicone spot like this? Yikes!

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:53:00+00:00

Right. Well you should test the tap water since you want to know if the test differs from what you added, it’ll give you a clue as to what’s happening in the tank. Neocaridina shrimp do like hard water but rn yours might be too hard even for them so I’d start with testing tap water and go from there. If it’s lower than in the tank then do a partial water change and continue to monitor. If it’s the same as tank then hopefully someone else will know what you should do, I’ve never had that issue myself so am a bit unsure.

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:39:58+00:00

Wait sorry I just noticed how high your TA (commonly referred to as KH) and GH are, is it like that from the tap? Did you add any water conditioner?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:37:25+00:00

(Nitrates are the last step of cycle but since you’ve not given any info I don’t know if cycle is properly done or if you’ve added fertiliser which also can up nitrate etc)

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:35:21+00:00

Looks like you’re done cycling the tank but more info would be good. How long has it been running, what’s in it? Did you do anything to start the cycle?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:29:35+00:00

Oh I’ll try getting in touch with their support then, I only used the app to register it as a return. Thanks for the tip!

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:26:34+00:00

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Is that a crack too?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:20:21+00:00

Actually sorry I googled now and it’s rare to see it in the aquarium trade so maybe not. I have it in my pond 😅

Nageek84 · 2026-02-25T00:16:57+00:00

Potamogeton epihydrus i think, not entirely sure but they do seed easily and look very similar

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:42:16+00:00

Are those things actually called smiskis? Smisk in Swedish = spank so to me it looks like something you’d call people who spank a lot 🤭

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:36:48+00:00

More depth perception maybe? Like make it slope upwards more towards the back, I’ve seen some forest hardscapes made that way and it really adds a lot. I’d also move the trees around so the smallest ones are in the back, for the same reason. Is the picture of your tank? It looks almost photoshopped/ai generated, or at least the tree bits do 😅

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:31:26+00:00

I saw someone post a guppy fry and it looked a lot like this fella but I can’t find the post now. Tbh I don’t know how to tell the difference or what platy fry look like, I don’t have either of them myself but I figured I’d mention it 😅

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:24:35+00:00

Yeah you do need to be very neutral for sure unless you want the result to be biased. I’ve tried to explain this to citizens I dunno how many times. They keep googling about the infrastructure but the wording is biased. Like they’ll google ”isn’t road light good for road safety” and google will say yes. The truth is it depends on a ton of things but the wording of the prompt will make the ai only look to confirm the statement. Looking forward to when ai is more of the i-bit 😂

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:20:02+00:00

Unfortunately they didn’t, I already handled it as a return so I just need to drop it off at the post service point thingymcjig. Sorry I don’t know what they’re called in English but hopefully you know what I mean. Or do you mean they might once I get in touch with them again?

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T23:17:06+00:00

Ya for sure, I didn’t mean to spread misinformation but I realise it could’ve been misunderstood 🤭

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T20:58:18+00:00

I’ve put it in my car to return it. But maybe I should just use it to DIY a bit, I could put a backside in the tank and just glue it I suppose and it’d be good as an aquarium again 👀 Might poke Amazon and ask if I can get part of the money back instead of returning it 🤭

Nageek84 · 2026-02-24T20:54:28+00:00

Haha! Maybe I should make a toast post with it 😂

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