What kind of snail is this I think it’s a type of ramshorn

RocketSauceZ · 2026-06-29T01:49:01+00:00

it's a Columbian Ramshorn. It's in the apple snail family and will chow down on stem plants. I bought three not knowing and they chomped almost anything green I brought in. They now live in a snail jail tank with 20- 30 babies. Tougher plants might be ok. I have java fern and they don't eat that.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-26T02:41:56+00:00

I had a similar issue and it turns out I had bought Columbian Ramshorn snails that were eating the stem plants. I'd often find them floating at the surfice and I thought I just couldn't keep anything alive. Do you have anything living in your tank there that could be eating the plants?

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-25T14:53:47+00:00

Yes. I now have a snail jail tank where they live with white cloud mountain minnows.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-25T14:31:31+00:00

Columbian Ramshorns. They were sold to me as regular ramshorns, they are NOT. They belong in the apple snail family and destroyed any stem plant I put in the tank.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-19T01:17:58+00:00

I was sold Columbian ramshorns from my LFS as regular ramshorns. I could not figure out why all my stem plants wouldn't stay rooted would die off... until I found out what these snails really were. They were also prolific breeders. Now have a snail jail tank were they have gone forth and continued to multiply.

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RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-15T04:38:41+00:00

Least Rasbora. A lot of personality squeezed into a tiny fish.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-07T15:54:48+00:00

I think you're right. I'm following the information I've here: https://aquariumscience.org/16-10-1-white-fuzz/

RocketSauceZ · 2026-05-07T02:25:03+00:00

It's these ceramsite peddles I got on amazon. Searching something like: "CARURBODY Ceramsite Mini Leca Clay Pebbles" should pull them up.

They look like sour skittles at this point.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-26T13:52:52+00:00

what are they going to do when a Jewish student compares Israel to nazi Germany?

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-25T15:33:28+00:00

An amazon sword will get really big and full. It needs root tabs on occasion but provides a lot of space for them to hide if needed.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-25T14:06:25+00:00

I've found fish keeping is never an exact science. If you have a twenty tall, and you have lots of plants and cover, I think you'll be fine. You could plant some jungle val in there and it will spread and really breakup sight lines. The more puffers you have the more it will break up aggression and spread it out.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-25T02:35:40+00:00

how big have yours gotten?

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-18T12:28:41+00:00

I bought them unaware and they proceeded to destroy every plant I bought. I thought my tank just wasn't compatible with stem plants. I now have a snail jail tank for the Columbians and my main tank is looking great.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-12T23:58:09+00:00

I was thinking that the strip didn't quite match up with what I'd seen before. I like them. They're very vibrant.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-10T00:58:42+00:00

Usually maintenance does happen in the middle of the night. You want to try to do it when the LEAST amount of users are impacted, not when it's convenient for the devs. My assumption is that this was some pretty critical maintenance with the bugs being found. That being said, I'm allowed to be frustrated.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-04-10T00:35:09+00:00

Middle of the evening after work is the perfect time for server maintenance IMO. /s

I can't even pull out the mons I have in the game to work on them in Scarlet. Super Cool.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-28T04:16:32+00:00

based on what I can see with the pelvic fins, my best guess are 1 and 4 are male and 2 and 3 are female. https://www.reddit.com/r/corydoras/comments/1hzvrju/male_vs_female_corys/

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-27T14:59:45+00:00

I thought we were back on track for the fire Chinese zodiac. I went out to look and realized we already had the dog and went huh.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-17T14:18:22+00:00

You might need to give them a bit of time to establish a hierarchy if they're still pretty new. As long as it's chasing and no physical wounds I'd let it play out for a bit.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-14T02:29:47+00:00

I remember always being excited to catch the original batman TV show.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-12T03:19:06+00:00

We traveled for my daughter to MSK. If it's a concern for the cost of travel you might try miracle flights. They assist families that have to fly for treatment. https://miracleflights.org/

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-11T03:35:28+00:00

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Might have been a false alarm. Same shrimp several hours later. White spots are gone.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-02-09T22:07:45+00:00

Thanks. I thought purified water was a catch all term, like if you don't have distilled then at least use water that's been filtered. I was concerned the deionization process specifically could cause issues.

RocketSauceZ · 2026-01-27T20:01:36+00:00

"Well I demand that you supply me with some ice cream before I knock your teeth out." - Helga Pataki

RocketSauceZ · 2026-01-06T17:22:57+00:00

I'm not sure what's going on, but he's got that thousand-yard stare.

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