Today when I got home I noticed two new egg clusters laid on the top of my aquarium glass, and now I have a moral dilema
I want a couple baby snails too see how their shells colors change throughout the generations, and I have two average sized mystery snails already, a blue one and an ivory one
but I dont think my tank can handle 100 of them, since I have a betta, 5 pygmy cory catfish, and a dozen or so ghost shrimp already in my 10 gallon tank
I have a filter that is oversized for my tank since it is a bit on the stocking border as is (I think/assume) and the filter pumps 150 GPH, and my fish population has had a 100% survival rate for a month and a half so far.
Will the fish I have already eat freshly hatched snails from the clusters? will most of them (98%ish) get sucked into the filter, could I stop feeding the tank and have the snails die out before the fish, or "motivate" (starve) my fish to eat the newly hatched snails so only a few survive?
I also have a 1 gallon bowl I'm tempted to put the babies in, if they can hatch and live for a bit in a small tank with no filter or heater(or substrate if possible,but I do have some leftover substrate, I will add food to the bowl tho) could this small bowl act as a temparary home for the babies for a month or two until I can sell/give away most of them?
I want to be left with only 6 or 8 baby snails when all is said and done, but I feel bad about just scraping the clutches off the tank side.
I could also just fill a 5 gallon bucket with food and water if that can hold the new snails for a while aswell, I guess I'm just torn, I want some babies(so that I can eventually have 6 or 8 generations worth to study the color inheritance) but I dont want to kill the rest of my fish for some snails to live, any advice?
I want a couple baby snails too see how their shells colors change throughout the generations, and I have two average sized mystery snails already, a blue one and an ivory one
but I dont think my tank can handle 100 of them, since I have a betta, 5 pygmy cory catfish, and a dozen or so ghost shrimp already in my 10 gallon tank
I have a filter that is oversized for my tank since it is a bit on the stocking border as is (I think/assume) and the filter pumps 150 GPH, and my fish population has had a 100% survival rate for a month and a half so far.
Will the fish I have already eat freshly hatched snails from the clusters? will most of them (98%ish) get sucked into the filter, could I stop feeding the tank and have the snails die out before the fish, or "motivate" (starve) my fish to eat the newly hatched snails so only a few survive?
I also have a 1 gallon bowl I'm tempted to put the babies in, if they can hatch and live for a bit in a small tank with no filter or heater(or substrate if possible,but I do have some leftover substrate, I will add food to the bowl tho) could this small bowl act as a temparary home for the babies for a month or two until I can sell/give away most of them?
I want to be left with only 6 or 8 baby snails when all is said and done, but I feel bad about just scraping the clutches off the tank side.
I could also just fill a 5 gallon bucket with food and water if that can hold the new snails for a while aswell, I guess I'm just torn, I want some babies(so that I can eventually have 6 or 8 generations worth to study the color inheritance) but I dont want to kill the rest of my fish for some snails to live, any advice?
