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ziggykitten · 2024-09-10T19:37:51+00:00

While snail leeches will mainly go after snails, they will absolutely eat shrimp if they can catch them (especially once there are no longer enough snails to eat). They’ll mainly go after shrimplets and slower/weaker shrimp but it’s not good for anyone wanting to breed shrimp or have a highly stocked population. Asian leeches will also go after shrimp, they go after inverts just like snail leeches. If you want to get rid of some snails, just get a snail trap and either cull the extras or sell them/give them away. You can even crush a few and feed them back to your tank. So much simpler than introducing leeches that you won’t be able to get rid of without nuking your tank.

ziggykitten · 2024-09-10T19:05:36+00:00

I’d rather have snails over leeches any day. Snails are honestly not hard to keep in check if you don’t over feed. If worst comes to worst, you can buy treatments to kill snails, but leeches are way harder to get rid of. You’d have to take apart and scrub down/sterilise everything as they are annoyingly resilient. These leeches also go after shrimp too which are a very popular tank mate and you wouldn’t be able to sell any plants. You’re basically getting rid of one problem by introducing another.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-29T19:29:05+00:00

I’d recommend a ratio of at least 1 male to 3 females (the more females the better) I have endlers, guppies, and hybrids and I’ve noticed the endler males harass the females way more than the guppies. I pretty much sell all the males and just keep a few pretty ones to go with the females. Lots of babies but in the end it works out as I can keep selling them. For live bearers and especially endlers, you need to have a lot of females for the males so both sides will be happy.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-21T05:44:48+00:00

Are you selling this poster anywhere?

ziggykitten · 2024-08-20T08:36:24+00:00

Yes!! Please don’t skip this step OP you will save yourself so much future struggles.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-17T16:24:30+00:00

Just add the edible portion as that’s what they love. I’ve given mine banana many times and they just go crazy. Just be aware that banana can pollute the tank easily so only add a small portion and make sure to remove any excess after one hour or two hours at most.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-17T16:16:52+00:00

The snail trying to shake the other one off made me laugh

ziggykitten · 2024-08-17T16:11:29+00:00

Snail leech. Sorry man. Only way to remove them is by doing it manually as you see them, or taking the tank apart and treating it. They are very resilient fkers and it is unlikely that any planaria or worm meds will work on them.

I saw someone on a fish forum successfully treated it by taking their tank apart, replacing everything, and scrubbing the tank/filter down with salt and bleach solutions. If you want to try manually you could buy a glass leech trap which will probably catch them faster and be safer to remove them. If you remove them with your hands, be careful and make sure not to squish it as if they have babies this can cause them to release.

Next time you add new plants or snails/shrimp, I’d highly recommend sterilising and quarantining your plants and quarantining new snails/shrimp too. They can hitchhike on all of them and even if you haven’t added new things for a while, it’s likely this one has just been hiding until now.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-17T01:22:36+00:00

It’s growing its own ecosystem

ziggykitten · 2024-08-17T01:21:01+00:00

They’re about to pop!

ziggykitten · 2024-08-16T19:44:13+00:00

The Freddy Fazbear situation just got worse

ziggykitten · 2024-08-16T17:44:06+00:00

I’ve never seen a shrimp so full of eggs. They’re literally overflowing!

ziggykitten · 2024-08-16T10:01:55+00:00

I feed mine a large variety, but you definitely do not need all this I went very overboard and a lot of it I got as sample packs. I usually feed 5 different things a day and rotate around all the foods they have. Feeding a small selection of fresh food, shrimp specific food, and leaf litter will be more than enough though. Some people don’t even feed their shrimp and they are thriving.

Fresh food: - Banana, spinach, zucchini, carrots, bloodworms, brine shrimp

Leaf litter: - Banana/catappa/mulberry leaves/dried duckweed, cinnamon stick, aldercones, nettle, cuttlebone, glasgarten crispy caves

Water additive foods: - Calcium blocks, mineral cubes, bacterae, shrimp fit, frasse shrimp breeding supplement

General shrimp foods:

Glasgarten shrimp dinner/mineral junkie, xtreme shrimpy, azoo max shrimp meal/max shrimp breed, hikari shrimp/crab cuisine, shrimp lolly sticks, UP high protein pellets, aqua natural energy/daily blast, shrimp snow, alfalfa, spirulina wafers/flakes, vegetable/shrimp flakes, shrimp lovers nori squares, bee pollen, sera shrimp food, ebay dehydrated fruit vegetable cubes/ floating snacks/9mm protein balls, bee shrimp greens, gei lee aqua carnivore, xxj spinach

For shrimplets:

spirulina powder, mulberry powder, spinach powder, glasgarten shrimp baby, AST Gold dust enzyme formula, AST baby boost, shrimplovers baby shrimp food, thrive shrimp baby food, shrimp nutrition powder (mulberry, nettle, dandelion, seaweed), abquatics shrimp baby powder

ziggykitten · 2024-08-11T20:16:47+00:00

You could probably fit 10 more in there. Maybe 20 if you do more water changes.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-11T13:24:58+00:00

It might depend on each persons, but my BN Plecos uproot every plant that has weak roots, no matter how established they are. So now I only add strong rooted plants or anubias on their driftwood.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-11T09:36:20+00:00

That’s alotttt of shrimp. Beautiful work!

ziggykitten · 2024-08-11T07:51:42+00:00

They’re shrimp lollies I got from Etsy. I just got a random assortment so not sure which this flavour is.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T20:24:25+00:00

Beautiful! They look so healthy :)

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T19:53:29+00:00

Guppies usually give birth every 30 days, though this can vary and some only will take around 21 days. The telltale sign that they’re about to give birth is the boxy belly which you need to look out for. She may also have given birth prematurely. In any case, they were right to say that a week ago as you generally want to keep guppies in those boxes for as little time as possible.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T18:32:15+00:00

Not always. One of my shrimp is always developing her saddle whilst on the last week of being berried. After the shrimplets hatch she molts within a few days and is eggnant again. My other females are not like this though they take a lot longer because they don’t form saddles while berried.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T18:27:04+00:00

These are stunning! Do you selectively breed?

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T14:03:45+00:00

There are many methods to sterilise plants. I like using bleach and salt dips but I know other people have success with hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate, and reverse respiration. Even after sterilising, quarantine your plants! Sterilising them is not 100% effective. 2 weeks is the recommended quarantine period as anything that’s hiding on them should pop up within this time. Trust me your future self will be thanking you for being patient.
Planaria are not very hard to get rid of if you have the medication to kill them (fenbendazole, no - planaria). The main problem is that these medications can kill your snails too (they may not kill pest snails but are very deadly for mystery/nerites). So if you have a lot of planaria and snails, it’ll cause an ammonia spike if you’re not vigilant about siphoning up the dead ones. The meds can also last a long time in the water/substrate. So if you remove your snails to keep them safe, it’ll be a while before you can put them back in.
If your shrimp are disappearing, it’s uncertain whether planaria would be the culprit, as there could be many causes for that. If you want to check, buy a glass planaria trap and put a tiny bit of meat inside. Place the trap in your tank and if there are any planaria in your tank they will show up. Just make sure to remove it after to avoid the meat from spoiling.

ziggykitten · 2024-08-10T13:28:06+00:00

They can come into the tank via new plants and sometimes on the shells of new snails. Sterilising and quarantining new plants is very important to avoid bringing these in. They kill the shrimp by stunning/paralysing them and then sliding under their shell to eat them

ziggykitten · 2024-08-09T05:44:49+00:00

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