These little underwater snails are breeding up in one of Joel's blue barrels. Potential fish food?
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| Author: | b2barker [ Aug 23rd, '07, 07:53 ] | ||
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These little underwater snails are breeding up in one of Joel's blue barrels. Potential fish food?
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Aug 23rd, '07, 07:57 ] |
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absolutely, and also good for controlling algae. Physastra (or Physa) sp. |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Aug 23rd, '07, 07:58 ] |
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when you pick up the snail with the point of the shell to the top, is the opening on the left or right side? |
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| Author: | bio-farmer [ Aug 23rd, '07, 10:50 ] |
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and also good at blocking pipes. have you/ eb tried feeding some to the silvers? |
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| Author: | b2barker [ Aug 23rd, '07, 10:51 ] |
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Is that some sort of Northern/Southern hemisphere thing? Joel get out your snail handling gloves! |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Aug 23rd, '07, 10:57 ] |
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no, it's a species identification thing, whether the shell is sinistrally (left) or dextrally (right) coiled |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Aug 23rd, '07, 19:58 ] |
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Damn, to dark now, I'll have to go out in the morning and have a look... |
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| Author: | aquamad [ Aug 23rd, '07, 20:01 ] |
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good goldfish food 
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| Author: | bio-farmer [ Aug 23rd, '07, 20:21 ] |
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b2 are the shells soft like common snails or hard like sea snails? cheers |
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| Author: | Dank Fish [ Aug 25th, '07, 06:15 ] |
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i think i have seen the snails you are talking about. at my local pet smart, i have a good friend whom is the fish expert there, and they have A-sexuail snails reproduceing at an great rate. the only tanks where there not at are the Gold fish(different system then the outheres) and the Ciclids(becuase they eat all of the snails, so none left in the tank). they look like a GREAT system add, they get rid of the alge and feed the fish. a +/+ .i think when i add fish i might just ask her to stick some of those snail in there with them, and maybe some green slime wile she add it, gosh i love the wheird stuff you ask for when shopping for AP. |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Aug 25th, '07, 07:46 ] |
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the opening is on the left when your holding the tip, and they are very fragile if you try and squeeze the shell... 
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Aug 25th, '07, 07:58 ] |
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thanks EB, they are Physastra sp. probably introduced to Australia. |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Aug 25th, '07, 08:02 ] |
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They are quite amazing, no idea where they came from.. Recently I turned off my barrel system and some of the gravel growbeds filled with rain water, then snails started to pop up in the flooded bed, they seem to breed very quickly.... |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Aug 25th, '07, 08:05 ] |
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they are in my top-up water drums and in the duck weed baths |
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| Author: | Dank Fish [ Aug 26th, '07, 01:53 ] |
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Quote: they are in my top-up water drums and in the duck weed baths
That makes sense. I know where I see them, they go there by there aquatic plaints dealer, the eggs just hitched a ride, and BOW, they had small little snails. There cool, I am definitely going to add these to my system. -df |
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