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Post by lotsofsnails on Dec 21, 2005 12:47:30 GMT
ok this is my situation:
i have a 45x30x30cm aquarium with two pomacea bridgesii which are about full size. the tank has a fluval 2 filter and the Ph is 8.0. every day i feed them krill, bloodworm, shrimp and algae pellets and every week i put liquid calcium in the tank.
but the edges of their shells are in a terrible state.
mike
p.s. happy bday darren
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Post by luvfishies on Dec 21, 2005 17:13:47 GMT
Sometimes the growing edge takes a while to completely fill in and harden. You might be surprised in a couple of weeks that the "leading edge" of today is tomorrow's nice, hard, shell.
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Post by lotsofsnails on Dec 22, 2005 11:45:57 GMT
its really worrying i dont think its normal. i found one on his back and i nearly had a heart attack.
maybe its too warm? think i shud do a 75% water change?
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Post by lotsofsnails on Dec 23, 2005 12:59:49 GMT
one of them died  i tried so hard with these but it still wasnt good enough. well i spent hours this morning cleaning the other ones tank as thorougly as possible.... |
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Post by luvfishies on Dec 24, 2005 4:17:41 GMT
So sorry to hear that one of them didn't make it.
Remember, don't clean the tank too well or you will have a mini-cycle!
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Post by lotsofsnails on Dec 24, 2005 15:35:32 GMT
oh no i put too much aquasafe in and the waters gone slightly blue. these are so difficult to look after i just cant get it right  |
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Post by luvfishies on Dec 24, 2005 21:05:57 GMT
oh no i put too much aquasafe in and the waters gone slightly blue. these are so difficult to look after i just cant get it right Aquasafe makes the water blue? Shouldn't be a problem. If you're worried, just do another waterchange, with the reg dose of aquasafe ONLY FOR THE NEW WATER you add. That should dilute the blueness. |
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Post by lotsofsnails on Dec 26, 2005 18:29:21 GMT
well my aquasafe is blue anyway. well the snail seems ok the water's heated up. im sorry i dont know much about this its all completely new to me |
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Post by luvfishies on Dec 27, 2005 1:12:52 GMT
well my aquasafe is blue anyway. well the snail seems ok the water's heated up. im sorry i dont know much about this its all completely new to me Don't worry, we were all new at one time. I'm in Canada, and don't use AquaSafe, so I didn't know it's blue! |
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i tried so hard with these but it still wasnt good enough.