Dan_G_Calgary
Mar 30th 2011, 09:38 AM
I just have to write something up on these guys and get this good information out, over and over again.
The best way to describe this is
How do you tell your asolene spixi snail has died? You see hydra in the tank.
Last night was doing a bit of maintenance on my tank with the aphyosemion australes and saw a hydra. Not a surprise. I've had hydra in my tanks since about day 2 of setting them up. (Plants from an unnamed source in Calgary, that I didn't treat before adding.) That is odd, I thought. I checked the asolene spixi in the tank, and unfortunately he had died. Until then though, he has kept hydra completely under control in that tank, by himself. As soon as he was dead (and he hadn't been dead for long) the hydra was popping out. I put another asolene spixi in the tank, and I doubt I will see hydra again unless this one dies.
For me, once I get hydra in my system, it is going to spread. I am just too sloppy with transfers, net cleaning - all that good fishkeeping hygiene. I suck at it. I also suck at laundry and doing dishes, so no surprise! I need help. With laundry, my wife agreed years ago (when I mixed reds and whites and all her and my clothes ended up pink) that she would handle laundry, and I would handle car repairs, yard maintenance etc. It was a good deal, and we've both stuck to it. With hydra, I have outsourced the control of it to asolene spixi!
Now, every tank that I feed brine shrimp to (breeders, fry tanks etc.) gets an asolene spixi (and a shrimp, but that is the subject of another post) in it. And I hardly ever see hydra, unless something happens to the 'watchsnail' in the tank.
Dan
The best way to describe this is
How do you tell your asolene spixi snail has died? You see hydra in the tank.
Last night was doing a bit of maintenance on my tank with the aphyosemion australes and saw a hydra. Not a surprise. I've had hydra in my tanks since about day 2 of setting them up. (Plants from an unnamed source in Calgary, that I didn't treat before adding.) That is odd, I thought. I checked the asolene spixi in the tank, and unfortunately he had died. Until then though, he has kept hydra completely under control in that tank, by himself. As soon as he was dead (and he hadn't been dead for long) the hydra was popping out. I put another asolene spixi in the tank, and I doubt I will see hydra again unless this one dies.
For me, once I get hydra in my system, it is going to spread. I am just too sloppy with transfers, net cleaning - all that good fishkeeping hygiene. I suck at it. I also suck at laundry and doing dishes, so no surprise! I need help. With laundry, my wife agreed years ago (when I mixed reds and whites and all her and my clothes ended up pink) that she would handle laundry, and I would handle car repairs, yard maintenance etc. It was a good deal, and we've both stuck to it. With hydra, I have outsourced the control of it to asolene spixi!
Now, every tank that I feed brine shrimp to (breeders, fry tanks etc.) gets an asolene spixi (and a shrimp, but that is the subject of another post) in it. And I hardly ever see hydra, unless something happens to the 'watchsnail' in the tank.
Dan