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Hello everybody, Ever wonder how the snails are scraping the algae? This shot is difficult to get, their mouth is moving so fast!

The temperature in New Cal start to cool down. Here are sound critters found in a creek of the New Cal west coast. This one is just 5mm long :

Fans work very well when setup properly with a temperature controller, there are a variety of types available. I ran my large tank with 4 computer fans and a controller for 3 years before buying a chiller. Unfortunately smaller tanks are less stable so have big swings of temperature. Nano tank chillers are now available too and quite reasonable in price.

Personally I like hard goods/food prizes because I get to try products that I might not otherwise consider buying. Also, I don't have any spare tanks for more shrimp! ;)

Definately, they do not afford the water of my shrimp tanks. I believe the water is too soft due the RO water and rain water I use. In my fish tank - tap water - they look OK. So I moved most of them there, and to my mothers tank too. Time to go hunting for this black / red mouth full fresh water nerite. I collected some driftwoods in the brackish spot, let them sank for 3 days in a permangante solution, checked today, and found this little guy : The shell is the size of the big thumbnail. This one was alive, almost healthy, unfortunately, 3 others were laying dead in the bottom... It looks happy in the fish tank.

Thanks Baccus. I'm sure you'll have luck and it will be my turn to be jalous then ^^ I went back to the spot today, and despite I fear a bit about bull sharks, I decided to dive to find more, and here is what I collected in an hour: 52 horned nerites 16 "non-horned" ones 8 "limplets"? At the moment, they are all in the acclimatation step, dripping method. I will acclimate them longer, as the ones I did previously do not look good. Most of them stay stuck on the rock or the glass, without moving. 3 only are grazing/eating, and 2 felt on their back, same as if they were very weak. Hope they will survive transition from brackish to fresh water... Here are the ones I call "limplets"". They are oval shaped, almost black, flat, and were found only under driftwoods, opposite the nerites which were all collected on rocks. Any idea of what these are? I also found nice pieces of drifwoood and some funny crabs, very flat, easy too catch and not agressive - they did not even try to escape and to pinch me, surprising- I had no place where to put them, so I released them, not sure also they will survive.