Thanks Sounguru!
I can see it now. Last night I went upstairs and stared into the tank. I took some pond snails from my 75g tank and some from my assassin tank and looked at them and then crushed them (fed them to the crays afterward). There is a difference in the sound of the crunch (more crunching sound from the snails in the 75g tank) but I didn't detect any easier or harder pressure, probably because the snails are to little for me to detect it and I have some nerve damage to my hands so I'm sure that helped me in not noticing any difference. Most of the assassins and MTS do have blunted ends with my original assassin snails very blunted. I don't think they arrived that blunted--I just didn't notice them getting more blunted. So my pointy ended assasin and MTS juveniles should be more pointy. Ugh. :thud: I thought I had this down pat--in a way I am thankful that this happened. I have taken immediate action on my cray tanks and placed argonite into their tanks as well. I don't want anything to happen there either. I also have some crushed coral coming so I can put that into the tanks as well. I'll mix it into the substrate that way it'll be there all the time and provide consistency with respect to buffering the KH and pH. In my mind this makes more sense than placing into the already crowded HOB filters. I don't want to leave this issue having you guys thinking that I was combative when you made statements about what you saw in the pictures--I just wanted to understand they 'why' of your observations and statements so I would have a better understanding of the whole process of providing proper amounts of KH and what to look for as far as deficiencies. What is obvious to you--isn't for me type of thing. This has been a difficult (and painful) learning experience for me at the cost me some beautiful snails--Thanks for pulling me along Lupin and Sounguru!
I can see it now. Last night I went upstairs and stared into the tank. I took some pond snails from my 75g tank and some from my assassin tank and looked at them and then crushed them (fed them to the crays afterward). There is a difference in the sound of the crunch (more crunching sound from the snails in the 75g tank) but I didn't detect any easier or harder pressure, probably because the snails are to little for me to detect it and I have some nerve damage to my hands so I'm sure that helped me in not noticing any difference. Most of the assassins and MTS do have blunted ends with my original assassin snails very blunted. I don't think they arrived that blunted--I just didn't notice them getting more blunted. So my pointy ended assasin and MTS juveniles should be more pointy. Ugh. :thud: I thought I had this down pat--in a way I am thankful that this happened. I have taken immediate action on my cray tanks and placed argonite into their tanks as well. I don't want anything to happen there either. I also have some crushed coral coming so I can put that into the tanks as well. I'll mix it into the substrate that way it'll be there all the time and provide consistency with respect to buffering the KH and pH. In my mind this makes more sense than placing into the already crowded HOB filters. I don't want to leave this issue having you guys thinking that I was combative when you made statements about what you saw in the pictures--I just wanted to understand they 'why' of your observations and statements so I would have a better understanding of the whole process of providing proper amounts of KH and what to look for as far as deficiencies. What is obvious to you--isn't for me type of thing. This has been a difficult (and painful) learning experience for me at the cost me some beautiful snails--Thanks for pulling me along Lupin and Sounguru!
