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I was contacted by a lady on FB about her angel being attacked by her other angels & about a snail problem she had. Rest assured, she wasn't exaggerating. She sent me a picture of one corner of her tank & it was pretty bad. It's a 75g tank with 1 HOB. Her substrate looked like someone baked a trumpet snail layer cake but it was supposed to be black & blue gravel.
Admittedly she hasn't changed the filters, done a water change, tested parameters, nor vacuumed since the tank was set up about a year ago. All she's done is feed them & add water. As limited as my experience is with MTS (none) and angels, I decided that the very least I can do for this lady is suggest she move the angel to another tank, tell her how to set snail traps & suggest she get some assassin snails. I told her I have puffers that will eat the snails, so she offered to give me some. My plan was to call Troy once I got there to help her with the angels.
Well, upon my arrival, this is what I found.
She pulled the angel yesterday & put it in a cat litter bucket. It couldn't stay there & was ramming itself into the sides repeatedly, so I took it home with me.
Needless to say, I talked her into pulling all the substrate, washing EVERYTHING out completely & starting over. She's all for it and is even gonna throw the HOB away. I'm going to go back over tomorrow, pick up the substrate and get as many snails out at possible for puffer food. I took some with me today & stopped by Troy's on my way home. I wanted to give him some of the MTS & have him take a look at the beaten angel. She's gonna be fine, he assures me so that's definitely a positive. :)
Troy told me to post this up to share with yall. Have yall ever seen an infestation this bad? I read that overfeeding causes the population explosion. There's a CRAZY amount of them!
Admittedly she hasn't changed the filters, done a water change, tested parameters, nor vacuumed since the tank was set up about a year ago. All she's done is feed them & add water. As limited as my experience is with MTS (none) and angels, I decided that the very least I can do for this lady is suggest she move the angel to another tank, tell her how to set snail traps & suggest she get some assassin snails. I told her I have puffers that will eat the snails, so she offered to give me some. My plan was to call Troy once I got there to help her with the angels.
Well, upon my arrival, this is what I found.
She pulled the angel yesterday & put it in a cat litter bucket. It couldn't stay there & was ramming itself into the sides repeatedly, so I took it home with me.
Needless to say, I talked her into pulling all the substrate, washing EVERYTHING out completely & starting over. She's all for it and is even gonna throw the HOB away. I'm going to go back over tomorrow, pick up the substrate and get as many snails out at possible for puffer food. I took some with me today & stopped by Troy's on my way home. I wanted to give him some of the MTS & have him take a look at the beaten angel. She's gonna be fine, he assures me so that's definitely a positive. :)
Troy told me to post this up to share with yall. Have yall ever seen an infestation this bad? I read that overfeeding causes the population explosion. There's a CRAZY amount of them!
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