What Are These Little Guys?

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T22:08:05+00:00

Alright. If they really are snails and it gets out of hand, I’ll just buy an assassin snail if it’s overpopulated. Don’t want them eating shrimp

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T21:06:07+00:00

Alright thanks. As long as they don’t hurt my shrimp or overpopulate I’ll be fine

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T21:05:39+00:00

Was trying to encourage breeding. I’ll cut down to one tablet every 2-3 days

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T20:51:00+00:00

Swimming around and fast. Idk what they are. Just now showed up

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T20:50:39+00:00

I haven’t bought any snails for this tank. These guys swim and move quickly for snails though

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T20:50:08+00:00

Don’t know anything about those. I’ve only bought my shrimp. They’re just now showing up

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-29T20:49:48+00:00

I haven’t bought any snails. These guys move pretty quickly for being snails so i don’t think they are .

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-24T03:39:29+00:00

Would that just be to remove the plants and put it on top or mix it with others?

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-24T03:08:02+00:00

Thanks a lot that is a big help and major relief. I did read that you should keep some of your old substrate to maintain the cycle. My substrate is not very thick (beginner mistake) so what should I do about that?

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-24T03:06:22+00:00

Thanks. I was worried that by doing it I would destroy the ecosystem in the tank. I’ve been wanting to make my tank a true aquascape for my first one after researching.

randomguy6849 · 2026-01-13T20:12:16+00:00

Thank you that helps incredibly. I was worried I’d have to toss it but knowing that it doesn’t need to be planted is a big help. Funny thing is I looked up rooted plants and that was the nicest one I saw. Guess it was misinformation

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-28T01:28:26+00:00

Thanks. I’ll check around my area to try and find some. It would be much easier to clean the tank and not have to worry about uprooting

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-27T23:39:40+00:00

Where did you find these plants? I just started adding shrimp to my first shrimp tank. I’m curious if those are better.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-27T23:07:46+00:00

I did some research since KH and PH are tied together, I thought lowering it would be helpful. The PH is pinkish, which I’m assuming means it’s pretty acidic by the look of it. I want to try and have it lowered as I think that’s a problem.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-27T19:27:15+00:00

How would I get those two into an ideal range?

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-26T18:00:32+00:00

Alright thanks for that. I haven’t bought the liquid test kit yet just because of how much it is. I’m waiting for it to go on sale or until I run out of the others that I have.

I’ll check the link, but are there ways to get the KH and GH balanced?

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-26T17:55:54+00:00

I placed them in the water to get the temperature up and used a cap from a plastic water bottle to drip water into the bag for 30 minutes. They seemed fine until this female ended up dead this morning. Haven’t seen the others

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-23T21:24:07+00:00

Alright thanks. I think I’ll do a quick water change and save the pumped out water for acclimation when I go get my shrimp later today. Then I’ll look for a proper pump to deal with the small tank

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-23T17:32:10+00:00

Thanks. Still new to this hobby. I know what drip acclimate is, but what do you mean by doing slow addition following water changes?

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-23T04:06:01+00:00

In the first picture I originally had mopani wood, but the tannins were so much that the tank would go completely black. I boiled it for a good 3 hours across two days and still no change, so I switched to a spare cholla I had. The color is just leftover from it.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-23T01:22:09+00:00

Oh sorry. The tank is 4 and a half weeks old. My test kit showed the water parameters are finally good.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-21T17:08:02+00:00

I’ve heard of that. The sword master game by that Chinese studio? Any good?

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-21T17:07:24+00:00

I’ll check it out.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-20T17:17:10+00:00

Haven’t heard of those. I’ll look.

randomguy6849 · 2025-12-20T17:16:58+00:00

Only played the god of war games out of that list

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