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Post by aaron on Oct 6, 2016 22:43:55 GMT -5
Ugh! That sounds grody! I wonder if that is a fixture of having snails... What kind of filter is it?
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Post by siobhan on Oct 7, 2016 10:28:37 GMT -5
It's an in-tank filter, with a blue sponge inside and charcoal inside the blue sponge. It sits under the water line and has a tube sticking out with five or six tiny holes in it that the water flows out of after it's been through the filter. The guppies love to play in the wake of that tube. I was keeping it turned pretty low so as not to fling them all over the tank, but I turned it up a wee bit, and they went nuts playing in it. So I turned it up a wee bit more, and it amuses them endlessly. And yeah, probably the snails are to blame for the gunk. Snails are pretty messy.
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Post by aaron on Oct 7, 2016 17:41:24 GMT -5
Eek! Snail gunk! So do the snails have a net cleaning effect or a net gunking effect?  |
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Post by siobhan on Oct 17, 2016 11:23:37 GMT -5
Well, the snails are pretty efficient at keeping things tidy in general, so the gunk is just the price you pay, I suppose. LOL Besides, I'm really fond of them. They're kind of fascinating.
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Post by aaron on Oct 20, 2016 22:44:46 GMT -5
I kinda want snails, but my tank is actually much cleaner these days. The phosphate absorbing material did the trick, pretty much. And interestingly enough, because the algae is growing so much less, the pleco has to travel further for his food, and he is cleaning more of the tank... Haha. He seems to have gotten over his fear of the big Cichlid, whose bark is much worse than his bite. It's funny, actually, he doesn't seem to know what to do... He's very interested in the pleco, but he will seemingly deliberately poke the ground next to the pleco rather than actually touch him. Either he's afraid of the pleco on some level (who is like 15% his size, if that), or he just doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to attacking.
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Post by siobhan on Oct 21, 2016 14:40:59 GMT -5
Or he wants to be friendly and is just clueless. LOL Jade is like that. She wants to be friendly but has no earthly idea how and she gets agitated and frustrated and chomps. Benjy's constant persistence has finally paid off and she lets him sit next to her on a perch and doesn't chomp him. When he bugs her, she lunges and he flies away, but she hasn't chomped him in ages. Maybe your fish is the same way.
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Post by aaron on Oct 21, 2016 14:57:34 GMT -5
Haha, I guess that's possible too. He's considered a semi-aggressive species though... but who knows. It is his only tank-mate, and most of his life he's been completely alone. So maybe he is reaching out. At any rate, the two of them are getting along much better these days  |
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