Cleaning Java moss
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sorry for a stupid question but how'd they get in there? are you feeding by the handful?
like i said stupid... sorry!
like i said stupid... sorry!
i have a 1 1/2 gal tank with a couple of shrimp in it as a experiment to see how fast a colony will start i was going to use the same tank to grow snails ahead of time to feed puffers and than decided against the puffers . the mass has grown to about 1/2 the tanks size and i would like to use some of it to scape a diff tank
Here's a link from Plantgeek. I would suggest a quick potassium pergmanganate dip for the moss. You could try a bleach dip, but I've killed moss using a bleach dip (even tho I dilluted it very heavily).
Since most ramshorn and pondsnails lay eggs in little clutches, you could just try swishing the moss around violently in a bucket of tank water to dislodge any egg cases, if you don't want to go with a dip.
Since most ramshorn and pondsnails lay eggs in little clutches, you could just try swishing the moss around violently in a bucket of tank water to dislodge any egg cases, if you don't want to go with a dip.
Alum is safe for moss. Put about a tablespoon of alum in a bowl and fill it with water, making sure to dissolve all the alum. Let the moss sit in the bowl for at least 24 hours, longer would be better, and it should kill all the snail eggs. Rinse the moss well and put it back in the tank.
I'm confused... why would overfeeding lead to snail *eggs*? Overfeeding leads to more adult snails, sure, because they don't die out, but overfeeding doesn't miracuously cause snail eggs to appear.
When there is a surplus of food, snails reproduce faster in my experience. I assume this goes for most animals.
Sure, and I acknowledged that. But the snail eggs still need to come from *somewhere*, he was implying that the snail eggs showed up in the tank because of overfeeding.
if snails have excess food they will reproduce until there is no more excess food. so if you have two snails, and you start over feeding each day you should expect your two snails to increase proportionally. so the posters statement was a mild generalization but in essence it is completely true. We are assuming that there were snails there and there was no case of evolution occurring in his habitat.
you might be able to kill off the snails/snail eggs with a good shot of hydrogen peroxide and water in a small bucket. i have only read that this may work, not that it actually does work.
you might be able to kill off the snails/snail eggs with a good shot of hydrogen peroxide and water in a small bucket. i have only read that this may work, not that it actually does work.
nope... not at all... i let the last one go cause frosty answered for me... correctly! i have a few species of snails myself. i know they don't magically generate... nothing does.
the op's "Q" was about their eggs in java moss. to that i asked how'd they get there... the java moss. in my experience they really don't like to lay eggs there, but i don't have every species as i have plants and snails tend to like veggie matter. in other words many snails eat plants. all of my snails lay their eggs on flat surfaces. they also tend to avoid moss for the most part. java moss is not exactly the best surface for them to slither or lay eggs. i assumed that maybe overfeeding would increase the population to the point there might be no other choice and had to ask. that is what we should do when we assume... ask to be sure before our assumptions become our beliefs or our side of the debate.