Newman's 40 Gallon Planted Tank

[big54bob]

The Apple Snail (Ampullariidae) Website

Find a topic called breeding Zebra Nerites and click on the link

 

[Newman]

thanks! they just arrived today. all are alive thankfully and are active. the seller had an interesting method of shipping them, no water, each snail wrapped around in moist paper towel...very odd, never seen that one before but it worked.

 

[Newman]

bigbob thats for breeding olive nerites. My ruby nerites are from sulawesi and they probably have somewhat different life histories. for example i have never seen my ruby nerite eggs hatch in FW. both males and females were present but the eggs just sat there for many months. I'm sure i can hatch them once they're in my SW tank.
the nerites do as you said btw, I recant most of the stuff I said im my attempt to disagree with you xD Thanks again.
It looks like this whole breeding thing is going to be much more difficult that I have thought. What else is new lol.

 

[Newman]

selling the mollies (I wanted to keep them but someone in my house is against them)
Got angelfish instead. 1 angelfish, 2 angelfish, 3 angelfish....no, 4 angelfish total. 2 will pair off and stay. the other 2 (whether they pair or not) will eventually be sold)
And got some pictures of Silver who is not liking the angels one bit. He cannot catch them so it's all good for now. when they grow up silver will be moved out for his own good.
Also some pics of Silver himself.

 

[Newman]

Silver again.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

Nice pic Newman! *thumbsups

Are all the Angels black?

 

[Newman]

Yes. not jet black like I preferred, but I got w/e the LFS was selling at the time.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

I have six in my 55 now...hoping at least 2 pair off!

 

[Newman]

chances are you should have the 2 pairs you want

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

I sure hope so!

 

[Newman]

updated FTS

 

[paperdog9]

Nice! It has a very soothing look to it.

 

[freash_water_monster]

Looks like you have baby angels

 

[youBeauti]

Great looking tank man. I love the Cherry Shrimp mate there are beautiful.

 

[Newman]

thanks guys I do like the flowing look to the tank
I will grow even more vals to continue that look.
Unfortunately the baby angels may not last. already lost 2 of them, they might not be cut out for hard water.

 

[Newman]

I suck at this. I have only one angel remaining now. dont know what happened to the second little one, she just disappeared.

on a side now my tank is full of molly fry now. I cleaned the filter out yesterday and found one molly fry in there and a very tiny cherry shrimplet.

 

[lauraf]

Aw, sorry to hear about your angels. How big were they when you got them?

 

[Newman]

fairly small, about quarter size.
oh and forget hard water, I figured out that that wouldnt be killing them anyway. it must be something else. just wish I could figure it out. they dont thrive in my tank that I can tell plainly.

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

Sorry to hear about your fish loss. How long did you have them? What color were they?What temp is the tank at?

Is Shrimplet a word? If not it should be!

 

[lauraf]

fairly small, about quarter size.
oh and forget hard water, I figured out that that wouldnt be killing them anyway. it must be something else. just wish I could figure it out. they dont thrive in my tank that I can tell plainly.

Have you had problems previously with angels in that tank?