Today...

I have been working on my 75 gallon SW and 1 of the things I needed to do was to move my 20 gallon into my bedroom to make room for the SW.

I got 3, 5 gallon buckets and in 1 I put my 6 blackskirt tetras and 4 zebra danios. And in the other bucket I put my electric blue crayfish and his PVC home. And the final bucket contained water and a medium sized rock. There was about 3 gallons left in the tank plus the aragonite sand.

It only weighed about 60 pounds or so, but I felt that it would be easier to get my dad to help me. So we put it on a chair for a few minutes while I brought in the stand. Once that was in we put the tank on the stand and filled it with water (and fish) The whole operation took about 20 minutes.

This is what it looks like now:

Later on when there is more clarity I will move the stuff around, but I don't want to risk it now with my crayfish...


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I forgot the other thing... I was putting the vacuum gravel outside to dry and I saw the mystery snail that is in my mom's pond. It is about 2 1/2" View attachment 200265
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My brother put it in his 10 gallon because technically it is his...

Can somebody explain to me what the GIANT arm like thing is? It doesn't look like my 1" inch mysteries...


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We plan on releasing the snail within the week...

Good news! Last Saturday I convinced my brother to release an orange oranda.

BTW that snail is about the size of the orandas in the 10 gallon.


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BettaFishMommy said:

yep, breathing tube.

i would have kept the snail in the pond, as long as conditions and temperature were favourable for it. moving it to a 10 gallon that already has a goldfish in it will result in rising ammonia - snails are heavy waste producers, and adding it to a tank that is already too small for the fish it has in it could result in a mini cycle/ammonia spike. plus, your brother does not seem to be as educated as you are on fishkeeping, so the snail would probably be better off in the pond.

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IK it would be better in the pond but I wanted to look at it for a day or two. The good part is that I do mantinence on that tank, scrape algae, 50% water changes, and I also make sure he feeds them.


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