what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you on a
Sunday baby oh it's BC Sunday in yo face on shower
doing the video before the Browns have to travel to the Lumbo field to play the
Green Bay Packers little nervous about them going in there Aaron Rodgers is a
beast Whedon is not a beast but the defense is playing tough I think they
got some wide receivers out on the Packers will see got to make the video
beforehand though it keeps me much more fired up much more in line much more
focus hope you and your football team does well on this species Sunday so
today I want to talk about something that I have in every single one of my
plan to tanks and I think that you should too within reason and I think
they're good part of the whole like keeping it like nature keeping it real I
want to talk about snails that's right folks show you the 125 while I talk
about this I got some snails up there to show you in a sec but I look this tank
has and probably will always have snails in it I'm fortunate enough that I have
got a nice balance going on and I talked about this in the dirted tank guide to
balance a little bit but which by the way is not out yet I'm frustrated but
we're doing some technical things anyway ah snails are in here I've got pond
snails in here I've got Malaysian trumpet snails in here most importantly
though I've got a loaches in here alright so this load right here will be
able to take care of them so I want to talk about these snails here I've got
two types of snails today two for one species Sunday I'll pump my wifey if she
came in and watched me putting snails on her fresh clean plate we got two snails
the bad the good that one right there okay so these two snails we got pond
snails here this is not a Ponce now move that the pond snail pond snail okay not
good I don't know they multiply like crazy they're hermaphroditic which means
they got boys and girls parts isn't that crazy right so they're basically the
joke is they're born pregnant right um they eat live plants they shred lotus
leaves and also they crush poco statement help
arrive for those of you who have it I don't keep that plant though so I mean
they multiply like crazy they eat plant leaves but they do do a
decent job of just kind of like rooting around on the substrate a little bit
they're more of a surface skimmer but I mean they do clean up some stuff so pond
still is not a fan of them Malaysian trumpet snails these boys with the
trumpet look I don't believe they're hermaphroditic which means they have
both parts so they need they need like you know a male and a female to
reproduce which is unfortunate because these are actually better these snails
prefer dead matter over live plant matter so I'm just going to pick one of
these up and show you trumpet snails I wonder how they got their name but very
cool they I've seen these get almost an inch long unfortunately like loaches
just don't care they'll eat whatever snail it is so if you're going to get
snails look for the malaysian trumpets really good um brian's talked to me
about this before and I'll show you the tank to Brian's talked to me about this
for he says the only beefy has with Malaysian trumpet snails is they can get
in the impellers of your footballs Andy Himes and nah filters and all that good
stuff because this thing just like crushes it out but it's never happened
to me knock on wood so that's what I want to talk about snails the biggest
way to not get them in your tank is to remove them from the plants before you
get them look I sell a ton of aquarium plants I do not dip my plants before I
ship them out because they're going to be in a bag for so long so what you do
is this you get five milliliters of water one little cap full one little
tiny little cap forward you put it in a gallon of water and you put them in
there for like five or ten minutes and that's what that's what Steve does I
actually don't do it because I just throw them in whatever but that will
remove the snails and the snail eggs you can also put them in saltwater I don't
have the mixtures available for that so those are two ways is to just not have
them in your tank a people some people are just so anti snail it kind of drives
me crazy to be honest oh my god or goats Neil's gonna tank good get a fish that
eats it there's a reason to get another fish in my humble opinion but that's a
way to not have them in there if you do have them in there obviously loaches are
a good way to go you know I've heard of people doing a
big lettuce piece of lettuce in the jar where they set the lettuce down in there
and the let go all like climb to the lettuce at the night time then you can
just remove the list I want to show you guys some of the snail the snails have
done damage to some of the shells you can see there's a little shell there
behind my Weitzman quarry cat another one back there with some algae on it
some of these uh snail shells so that's what I would do I wouldn't let them in
the tank at first if you don't want them but look at this load you think he's
made to eat snails he's got like a pointy head five spiky little things in
his mouth just pow I've got a video on those as well which I think I'll link to
so that's what's going on hope you guys had an awesome weekend and are getting
excited for a great week ahead I know I am dirty tank guides coming out soon the
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I'm also doing a lot on Facebook these days and I finally got to Instagram
although I suck at it so I'm trying to get my photos up on there kind of show
you guys some stuff during the week that's a different beast by the way so
just another thing I'm doing Dustin's fishtanks on Instagram so that's what
I'm doing everybody yeah make it an awesome week tank on