WhySoCRS Journal

[WhySoCRS]

Did some maintenance last night, water change, quick clean, removed some snails on the glass, it'll take time to get rid of them but oh well.

Might look at a different LED also, something not so close to the surface, or something that I can use to extend the LED I have at the moment.

[WhySoCRS]

Got a nice number of juvi shrimp, found 13 larger juvi a day or two ago and this morning found another 4 tiny juvi, so things are going well.

[sdlTBfanUK]

Fantastic news, always exciting to see babies!

I hope the snail removal is going well and not driving yo too mad. At least they are harmless and actually good if the numbers don't rocket out of hand!

Simon

[WhySoCRS]

Yeah just manual removal at the moment, or crushing the smaller ones for the shrimp to feed on.

[Chiquarius]

I have found an assassin snail or two to be effective in keeping invasive snails down. People claim they can eat the shrimp, but I haven’t seen this or seen any reduction in shrimp numbers; they’re too fast for them.

Also, floating a slightly blanched lettuce leaf will draw many of the snails in board. You can simple remove the lettuce leaf and discard.

[sdlTBfanUK]

11 minutes ago, Chiquarius said:

I have found an assassin snail or two to be effective in keeping invasive snails down. People claim they can eat the shrimp, but I haven’t seen this or seen any reduction in shrimp numbers; they’re too fast for them.

Also, floating a slightly blanched lettuce leaf will draw many of the snails in board. You can simple remove the lettuce leaf and discard.

I don't believe that assassin snails kill shrimp, but they will eat a dead shrimp and I suspect that is what 'people' are basing that on and have seen a snail eating a shrimp and ASSUMING that the snail killed the shrimp?

Assassin snails aren't available/legal in Australia, where WhySoCRS is based so they don't have that option unfortunately for them!

Simon 

[WhySoCRS]

17 hours ago, Chiquarius said:

I have found an assassin snail or two to be effective in keeping invasive snails down. People claim they can eat the shrimp, but I haven’t seen this or seen any reduction in shrimp numbers; they’re too fast for them.

Also, floating a slightly blanched lettuce leaf will draw many of the snails in board. You can simple remove the lettuce leaf and discard.

Yeah Assassin Snails are illegal here in Australia.

[WhySoCRS]

Just an update pic on the tank.

 

[sdlTBfanUK]

Looking good and a lovely selection of shrimps of different generations! Thanks for the photo.

Simon