Total plant annihilation

I left the lettuce in there all day, and when I got home from work it was all eaten and torn up. I still have yet to see a snail. Although, since the lettuce was in there, the other plants appear untouched. I think I found a solution to my problem: Lettuce! I don't have to trash Spot after all! :D

On snails: how small can they be? If what I'm seeing truly are snail tracks, they're the tiniest snails on the planet. The tracks almost look like someone took a sharpened pencil tip and dragged it through the moisture.

I need some kind of surveillance camera. :rolleyes:
 
Aquabum said:
In my 20 gallon, I couldn't afford to feed them cucumbers every single day (the water got messy)
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one cuc should last for a 20g for about 3 weeks...if its to messy just make sure to core it and dont boil it...just put it in raw the fish'll eat it all the same and its not nearly as messy.
most fish will leave the peel/rind behind so just loop a string around that so you can easily pull it in and out...
if your dunking it raw just calculate how much your fish can eat in 3-4 days as thats about how much time it takes for it to go bad (/soggy)
thats how I do it at least...
 
I can't stand dirty water, which is why I didn't like doing it everyday. I'll remember your advice the next time. ;)

Thanks for the info.
 
Something else that should be noted here for future use is the fact that pond snails don't eat your plants. Pond snails are the most common hitchhiker, and are very plant friendly. Common ramshorns are also good hitchhikers and are extremely plant friendly. The larger snails such as apple snails are known to eat plants, but they are not typically hitchhikers, and they need a male femal pair to reproduce and beleive me if they were big enough to reproduce you would see them. All of my tanks have snails most have three varieties ( pond Ramshorns and MTS's) they eat algea and leftover food and really keep my plant tanks looking good. I wouldn't trade them for anything. Sorry that the clown loach was the culprit, but I would say it definately wasn't a snail.
dave
 
One of my friends has snails in his tank, and they're totally at peace with his plants. The snails I had, however, were DEFINITELY not plant friendly! After a few days, it looked like someone had stuck a weedwhacker into my tank and let fly. I'm not sure what kind they were, but I do know that they were small, many, and EVIL!

My gouramis decided that algae isn't for them, so they went back to begging for real food. The cory cats are still ardently trying to suck the algae off of the glass, and failing. The SAEs still join the other fish at mealtime, but are now trying out the algae on the tank and the plants. The tetras just sit there. One of their number vanished, and I have a suspicion that they ate him, because a body hasn't appeared. The kuhlii loaches and the betta are the only ones that didn't deviate from their normal habits.

The lettuce supplement seems to be working. It was completely gone today at lunch, so I replaced it and it's been gnawed on. None of the other plants appear to be damaged any more than they were. So yay! Problem solved (for now)! Thanks to everyone for all the help fixing my fish and keeping me sane! :D
 
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