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Sculpey clay is supposed to be tank/invert safe. comes in a bazillion colors so you don't need to paint it, and it bakes hard in the oven. Note I have never actually TRIED this, but I distinctly remember hearing it somewhere, so it's a place to start looking.

I've never seen cherries kill a snail... in fact, my cherry tank has rediculous numbers of pond snails in it, the only thing that seems to control the population in there is food supply. If it's dead they'll eat it though.

I saw a ghost shrimp eating pond snail eggs once. I think they prefer to let ...

Ah, ok... I haven't kept corys much, though I've always liked them, so I guess I had been hearing rumors about their feeding habits. Thanks!

I have personally watched them fishing small pond shells out of their shells. I have also added them to several tanks that were getting over-run, and the addition of ghost shrimp quite effectively stemmed the tide. It never eliminated them, but there were a lot fewer and the population stopped ...

Plecos are safe too, but some of them get extremely large. Are you sure corys are safe? I thought they were "bottom feeding omnivores," and would eat a shrimp if they could catch it.

Wow, I am impressed. That is a high survival rate! Maybe having them actually IN the filter for the first while helped? I can't think how though...

Hmmm... maybe I will have to keep it limited to ammonia/nitrite/nitrate sensitivity for now, although I think there will be fewer levels that way. I will have to think about it some more.

Ghost shrimp eat tiny snails like crazy though. I agree that it's worth watching, but you do have a controller in there as it were, so I don't think it's worth worrying about.

I mean, first sensativity to water quality (ammonia, nitrite and nitrate) and second how "picky" are they (like, cherry shrimp don't care much what their pH is, but tiger shrimp do). I am trying to incorporate both, although I have yet to see if that will work in the long run. Maybe it would be ...

I have been trying to compose a list, as detailed as possible, for my own reference and thought it might be useful to everyone (and could certainly become more complete with help!) Least to most sensitive:

physid ramshorns and pond snails
asolene spixi (maybe marisas too?)
haustrom
redclaw macros ...

I have been boiling it, then scrubbing it with a stiff brush, as long as you scrub while the rock is still warm it comes off without too much trouble.

Hmmm... well, I guess I can scrub them, but not worry about missing a tiny bit. The more I look at it, the more I dislike it anyway, it looks an awful lot like mold.

So, I just got some rocks from the LFS for my redclaw and snail tank... but when I washed them off I found that they have a bunch of lichen on them. Mostly orange, but some black, blue-green, and even a little pink. :shock: The question is, do I have to get it off before I use the rocks? Or is it ok ...

I would think the shrimp would be fine with the marisas... I keep my cherries with spixis, and both species are thriving and reproducing like mad crazy. I acually didn't have much success with the cherries until I moved the spixis in there, although I'm sure it's coincidental. Marisas and spixis are ...

Put them in a net near the filter outflow, so they stay put and nothing eats them. They may have been dropped because they were infertile though, so there are no guarantees, but it is worth a shot.

On another note, it is possible she is fanning because she still has some eggs on her, just way up ...