January 30, 2006
blooming snails
Well I think i’ll have to divert my ranting from algae to snails now. The algae is proving much less of an issue, but the snails have started eating the plants!
To recap, we got some snails here: http://www.jammeh.com/fishblog/2005/09/26/woooo/
and some more here: http://www.jammeh.com/fishblog/2005/11/11/more-snails/
and they’re very good in the main, nice colours, shiney etc. I was actually quite impressed with teh packaging as well, so if you do want snails then snailshop.co.uk seems reasonable, they packaged them up in some damp cotton wool stuff, then put that into a polystyrene cup, that was put in some shredded paper which was then packed into a cardboard box and taped up nice and tight!
The problem is, that they’ve been munching on the plants, after Christmas they’d had a bit of a feast, so we thought fair enough, the plants in there were pretty haggard and bought some new ones to go in. However, they’re just as keen on these ones. I keep spotting big chunks of leaf etc floating about, it’s like they’ve got some secateurs stashed away and are lopping bits off. It’s only really frustrating because they were sold as “don’t like plants snails” We’ll have to try and isolate the culprit and take action, tho admittedly i’m not quite sure how to deal with a naughty snail who eats what it shouldn’t!
Aside from that all is well in the land of fish, a few more guppy babies have made it to the size where they’re unlikely to get gobbled up so will probably reach adulthood, not really an issue tho as we’re well within the reccomended stocking levels.
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