Tag Archives: snails

what fish, shrimp or snails clean small freshwater tanks?

what would be a good freshwater shrimp, snail or fish, for cleaning algae and waste in a small aquarium with a small turtle in it (musk: 6 inch)

interested in a dwarf freshwater puffer any owners out there?

im not irresponsible so i am doing all the research before even setting up a tank im just curious about how i might go about getting one as i fell in love with there cute little eyes at the store,i currently keep shrimp snails betta and breed platies sucesfully.im an mad animal lover so literally spend more time and money on them than me so dont give me some smarmy stupid answers or il simply report you.

Freshwater ecosystems?

Snails- they multiply like crazy, how do I thin out the population.

Shrimp- Are they blind?

Red Spider thingy- What is it?
Its alot bigger than a spider mite. Its like a red ball with alot of legs and he swims back and fourth non-stop

Established Saltwater Tank?

I have a 80 galloon saltwater tank and its been running for 2-3 years. I have mainly damsels (4) with a cinnimon clown, and a blackcap basslet. I had a flame angel, a lawnmower blenny, a coral banded shrimp, a pink tip haitian anenome, and a puffer. All of those have either been given away or died… the puffer ate the shrimp. A lot of the clean up crew has died and I need to replenish their ranks. I want to get rid of the damsels…well 3 of them and get some more interesting fish. Does anyone want some damsels? (1) 3 stripe, (1) 4 stripe, and (1) lemon damsel? If not they might get flushed if I can’t get my girlfriend to convert her freshwater tank to saltwater and take care of them. What are some lively interesting fish I could get? I’m hoping for some that won’t disturb the hermits and snails. Also, I want to get another coral banded shrimp since the puffer that ate the last one is gone. Any ideas would be cool, thanks.

Best Way To Control Algae?

In a ten gallon freshwater tank. Limitations would be that I have a crayfish living in the tank making almost any bottom dwelling fish easy lunch. Mainly, should I get snails, shrimp, or is there something better?