Re: When a blessing becomes a curse

["Cory and Susanne Williamson" <webwill@infinet.net>]

Ahhhh! This is very bad news!- I was very happy about the snails in my tank
as well- is there any way to reduce the carnage- I am afraid that I have far
too much time invested in my community dwarf planted tank to tear it appart
in search of snails- there are hundreds of them. Has anybody used
nightlights in this kind of situation with success?- I have at least one
clutch each of eggs with my regani and borelli at the moment possibly two
clutches of each- both borelli females and two regani are hiding most of the
time and are extremlely defensive of their spots- to the point of bullying
large M. altispinosa. One borelli is barely 1.5 cm- not much larger than the
dorsal fin on my male butterfly ram- but she is very able to send him on his
way..

Any suggestions about the snails would be greatly appreciated- these are the
first Apisto spawns I have had.

Cory


-----Original Message-----
From: ALEX PASTOR <alexp@idirect.com>
To: apisto <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 7:56 PM
Subject: When a blessing becomes a curse


>I was figuratively patting myself on the back last week for my
serendipitous
>great good fortune in having somehow inadvertently introduced Malaysian
>trumpet snails into one of my planted tanks.(That sentence reads like
>something Lilith would have said to Frazier if she would have an aquarium)
>... Then I read that these snails eat apisto eggs at night while the mother
>fish sleeps...ARGHHHHH!!!
>
>Hence, I have been doing the Jacques Cousteau for the past three evenings,
>picking snails out of the gravel as they appear for their evening of
>feasting and frolicking on my defenseless apisto eggs.  Sigh...
>
>G. Kadar
>getting the water changes done before A&E's Murder Mystery.
>
>
>
>
>
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