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[jackychun]

Hmm.... OK. . I'm getting 6.5(co2) and 7.6 (no co2)

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Wow. That is quite high for your tank. May be because of your rocks bro.

[exo]

Maybe.. anyway the residents are happy and healthy

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[jackychun]

Maybe.. anyway the residents are happy and healthy

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Yup. I think that range is perfectly fine for the fishes and shrimps that you have. We just see if they are happy, then it would be alright.

My hands are itchy and I have just removed and rearranged some plants in the tank. I also wanted to clean the filter and lily pipe but too lazy to remove the whole bunch out of place.

[exo]

I cleaned my filter 2 days back... it was very dirty(from fine soil particles and dead plant matter). The floss filter was completely spent, had to replace it. Also cleaned out my in/out flow pipes..

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[jackychun]

I cleaned my filter 2 days back... it was very dirty(from fine soil particles and dead plant matter). The floss filter was completely spent, had to replace it. Also cleaned out my in/out flow pipes..

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Sounds good! How did you manage to take the hose from lily pipe? I am afraid I will slip it from my butter fingers.

[exo]

Pry with fingernail all round under running water.idea is to let water seep in and create lubrication / lift

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[Urban Aquaria]

I found one snail in my tank and not sure if that is the bad kind of snail. Any sifu can help to ID this snail? Is there any chance the baby horned nerite snails?

Do you have a clearer close up photo of the snail for better ID?

From your current photo, it looks kinda like a common pond/bladder snail, usually those types of snails hitchhike in jelly egg clusters attached to plants... but since you used all Tropica 1-2-Grow tissue cultured plants, that would be not be the source.

Nerite snail larvae also can't develop in freshwater conditions either, so that eliminates that possibility too.

I guess the other source could be pond snail eggs that happened to be transfered in the net with LFS bag water or maybe somehow a cluster of eggs got in attached to the shells of the nerite snails.

Anyways, common pond snails are harmless, just that they tend to multiply quickly and can look abit unsightly in larger numbers.

[jackychun]

Do you have a clearer close up photo of the snail for better ID?

From your current photo, it looks kinda like a common pond/bladder snail, usually those types of snails hitchhike in jelly egg clusters attached to plants... but since you used all Tropica 1-2-Grow tissue cultured plants, that would be not be the source.

Nerite snail larvae also can't develop in freshwater conditions either, so that eliminates that possibility too.

I guess the other source could be pond snail eggs that happened to be transfered in the net with LFS bag water or maybe somehow a cluster of eggs got in attached to the shells of the nerite snails.

Anyways, common pond snails are harmless, just that they tend to multiply quickly and can look abit unsightly in larger numbers.

Thanks UA! I think it would be exactly like you said! I brought the fish from LFS and pour them to my net and bring the net to release the fish to my tank! You are like Sherlock Holmes!

BTW, here is the close up photo of the snail. It is like green bean size only. Hope I only have one of the uninvited guest.

[jackychun]

Pry with fingernail all round under running water.idea is to let water seep in and create lubrication / lift

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Oh. Good idea! So you remove the whole hoses + CO2 reactor + lily pipes and bring out to clean?

I don't know why but the Eheim plug seems so difficult to remove from the socket, I might try to pull it out but it like get stuck there. So I did not use my full force, afraid the whole things broken.

[Urban Aquaria]

BTW, here is the close up photo of the snail. It is like green bean size only. Hope I only have one of the uninvited guest.

Yeah, thats a common bladder snail.

[exo]

I'm using double taps as advised by UA at the beginning. These taps are installed at halfway point of the flow. So I just have to shut the tap and pull them out.
Removing pipes from the reactor is pretty easy not much resistance
Jus have to remember to drain what ever water that is left in the flow pipes and reactor before moving on

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[Realcaster]

My tank are now free of snails after I introduced YoYo loach you can try that

[jackychun]

I'm using double taps as advised by UA at the beginning. These taps are installed at halfway point of the flow. So I just have to shut the tap and pull them out.
Removing pipes from the reactor is pretty easy not much resistance
Jus have to remember to drain what ever water that is left in the flow pipes and reactor before moving on

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I think my Eheim Ecco Pro 300 can just turn off the valve and remove out too. I will try to clean the filter next week. It looks to dirty those hose and pipe already. Feel like sore in the eyes!!!

[jackychun]

My tank are now free of snails after I introduced YoYo loach you can try that

I hope this is the only snail that I have, Realcaster.

[jackychun]

Yeah, thats a common bladder snail.

Thanks UA. I'd better remove it out from the tank then. BTW, I think 4 out of 5 Horned Nerite Snails have died. They have not been moving around for the last few days. I took out and smell but it is not stink yet. How do we know that they really gone? I noticed today my shrimps did come and try to pull the snails out of the shell. Is this the sign that they have died?

[Urban Aquaria]

For nerite snails, usually the sign its dead is the operculum (aka trapdoor) is partially open and the snail's body doesn't respond to being touched... or its shut closed and staying in the same spot for many days, could be considered dead too.

A live healthy nerite snail would be actively grazing around, and securely attached to objects/surfaces even when at rest.

[exo]

Yeah that's the good thing at ecopro.. just be careful of your reactor.. don't break it like how realcaster and I did

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[jackychun]

For nerite snails, usually the sign its dead is the operculum (aka trapdoor) is partially open and the snail's body doesn't respond to being touched... or its shut closed and staying in the same spot for many days, could be considered dead too.

A live healthy nerite snail would be actively grazing around, and securely attached to objects/surfaces even when at rest.

OK. In this case I guess they are gone. No movement at all. The one that very active one, like you said, keep moving around and graze the glass continuously. I will remove them to avoid water contamination then. Thanks UA.

[jackychun]

Yeah that's the good thing at ecopro.. just be careful of your reactor.. don't break it like how realcaster and I did

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Noted, thanks bro. I think I just cut the CO2 hose and connect the check valve in like you did. So when I connect/disconnect, just do at the check valve only and will not touch the flimsy nozzle of the reactor. Is that what you do now?

[exo]

Actually after my last experience.. I found the disconnecting from the check valve is not as simple too because of the hose barb.. presently when I need to disconnect/move the reactor.. I disconnect the bubble counter instead.. this worked better for me.. I move the bubble counter and reactor as 1

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