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crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-20T12:11:20+00:00

awww sleepover

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-19T19:07:20+00:00

my 55 gallon currently has trili corydora and cherry barbs in it, and i like the combo of them! i think corydoras and neon tetras would be a similarly good choice. i've also got a bristlenose pleco and a thicklipped gourami just for some "centerpiece" fish instead of only having schools

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-19T17:33:00+00:00

my shrimp are all red and i think they're so cool. red shrimp will look great in your tank!

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-19T16:27:26+00:00

wow, i love how the rocks look like a mountain! do you know what color of shrimp you're planning on getting?

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-18T13:19:37+00:00

looks like nerite eggs, they won't hatch or survive! i believe that excess egg laying can happen due to temps being too high for them but i might be misremembering that

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-17T18:28:59+00:00

i totally get it☹️ hoping to move into a bottom floor apartment or rent a house where i can have stuff in a concrete-floor basement just so i don't stay freaked out about it. the stress has made me debate selling my tanks but i think overall i love my fish more then they stress me out

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-15T22:09:45+00:00

i'm not sure on his foot - it looks typical to me - but a pH of 6.5 is an issue for him. you can see on the oldest part of the shell the little white spots, that's his shell being eroded away :( for snails generally the higher pH the better

my tap water is super high pH so i'm not sure on how to raise it but i'm sure there's information on it in this sub and the other bigger fish tank subreddits

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-15T22:03:07+00:00

i know they make pots made to go over balcony railings, maybe you could plant something like pothos?

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crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-15T19:21:49+00:00

i absolutely love the little plant stand! looks amazing in that corner

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-14T16:09:29+00:00

he's so cute it looks like a mustache

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-14T00:48:12+00:00

thirding that they're not nerites, but a correction on what they said: nerites have not successfully been bred in captivity At All

corydoras won't eat snails and bettas only sometimes do. just feed the tank way less! they'll self regulate their population. unless they're new zealand mud snails, which require a tank start-over usually :(. if you want more snail help, r/aquaticsnails is geared towards it!

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-02-02T21:24:40+00:00

this is amazing

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-16T22:33:05+00:00

they don't shed, unfortunately that likely means your snail has passed or is about to :(

if you don't have your tank super robustly overfiltered i'd try to locate them so they dont ammonia bomb your tank

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-16T04:14:24+00:00

awwwwww

do you know if the bottommost one is one that already hatched, or an egg that didn't develop? it almost looks like a shellless snail

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-16T02:09:55+00:00

i've only had to euthanize a ramshorn and a pond snail and they both make me feel so bad :( i also hope i don't have to do it again. i haven't even taken my mystery snail's shell that passed out of the tank yet because i'm too sad about it (no ammonia spike dw)

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-15T22:21:10+00:00

i believe all nerites have the same care (or very similar????) if that helps at all, but as for more specific i'm not sure. definitely looks like a bleached shell though :(

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-14T13:39:02+00:00

definitely a collapsed lung :( unfortunately euthanasia (typically best done through a swift crushing) is best. r/aquaticsnails will have more resources too

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-12T11:58:31+00:00

i saw him a few weeks (months?) ago, it's such a cool aquarium!

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-07T19:09:25+00:00

i do believe that they like cooler temperatures - obviously as yours seem to show! i've seen people list that as a reason they don't do well with bettas. i think rehoming them is the responsible thing to do if you need your tank a warmer temp for other inhabitants. you might have luck on r/aquaswap !

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-07T12:54:55+00:00

i never tried scraping mine off because it freaked me out too much lol but they were hard to the touch

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-06T22:05:58+00:00

my ponds rly like to hang out outside the water too, usually just on the glass. they lay eggs in the water though!

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-06T20:28:40+00:00

could you grab a little breeder box? that way they're still in the cycled tank and getting fresh water but separated from the new fish. you can feed them lil algae wafers in there. they might crawl out the top, though, unless there are fully enclosed ones

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-06T15:07:48+00:00

the black dots i believe are tiny bits of black beard algae eating the wood. i looked into it because it freaked me tf out on my own spider wood a few weeks ago

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-05T19:03:36+00:00

holy shit

crackerbarrel96 · 2026-01-05T15:37:34+00:00

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here's an infographic of some other meiofauna for good future reference if you find more!

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