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Beautiful

Excellent tank, looks absolutely fantastic.

beautiful picture of the zebra,...is that an apple snail on his back!!!

Wow, isn't that the weirdest thing, I didn't even notice the apple snail - nor the other fish in the picture! What does that mean!??

I think the "mentally Certified " says it all!!!

touche

I saw the yellow, but didn't realise it was an apple snail until you said so! I'm glad to see that all those critters get on well because I currently have an Oto in with my Zebs AND I was thinking of putting an apple snail in too! I have a great big one in my quarantine tank, and I think he might be happier with a bit more roaming space now.

Thanks for sharing your pics. They're just lovely!

apple snail? here they are

Hi Jeroentje,

Excellent pictures. nice female zebra you have there.
Do you use co2 (carbon dioxide) in your tank?
I too had a trio of apple snails in one of my breeding tanks, but they had to go after they scoffed a Apistogramma cacatoides spawn just before they were due to hatch.

Regards,
Des

Apple snails don't eat anything that isn't already dead. Maybe the snails you had weren't the true Applesnail? The pictures in this thread shows a true applesnail. I have one that it brown and black striped, also a Pomacea bridgesii.

Or maybe the eggs were infertile?

McEve,

My snails were identical to ones in the pictures above.
My Apistos spawned in a clay pot. The eggs did look fertile. After about 36hrs from being laid,and the female looking after them, found an apple snail in the pot, which I removed and found all the eggs gone. So the natural assumption would be :Apple snail was the culprit.
Like you say the eggs might have been fertile or maybe my snail/s did not know they were not supposed to eat anything alive !!!!
So decided to remove them from the tank. Better to be safe than sorry.!!!

Regards,
Des.

Des wrote:Better to be safe than sorry.!!!

When it comes the Zebra - definately! I've used snails to look after eggs, making sure they didn't get attacked by fungis and removing the dead shells as the fry hatched. They did an amazing job! They saved nr14 that I was sure would be a writeoff, but the snails cleaned him up and he survived Mind you, that was a pond snail and not an applesnail, but the applesnail is supposed to have the same eating habits.

But like you said, better safe than sorry, and if I even for a second suspected that the individual haden't read the same book as me they'd be out in a jiffy for sure!

take a look here -> http://www.applesnail.net/

@ des, I don't use Co2, maybe in the future to get better growing plants.

Hi jeroentje,

That's a very nice looking tank you have there and, nice clear pictures too . Nice healthy zebra you have there, looks like a young female to me.

I noticed that you have some nice looking brown natural rocks in your tank. What type are they?

Regards.

Adam

Hi Adam

I don't know the english name of it , but here's a close up of my cave