Louie

Okay thanks.

I'm going to look into them as like them but don't want any plants eaten .

Camaro,

               There are different types of nerites sold, think 3 types . Perhaps it was the type you purchased.

Poopians,

                  If live plants are not for you, you can use a bare bottom tank . Just either paint the outside bottom of it or use black, etc poster paper (scotch taped) . You could put a few small clay pots with plants here and there.

What color did you get ?

I imagine the Sulawesi snails will eat moss, plants?

Soothing,

                   You have seen them go after baby shrimp?

I have some scuds in all my shrimp tanks .  I have no issues with them but they do eat protein and eat shrimp food.

Fish LOVE them .

Since I do not keep fish with the shrimp , I place a little dish , etc with shrimp food and siphon out scuds .

Mine also came in moss from the pet store but I am to blame for not "disinfecting" the moss prior to placing it in tank .

I used to have them in my 55 before adding shrimp and several days of CO2 killed them.

They breed rather well in filters and colonize driftwood .

I can already tell that they only eat algae and do not eat my snail food unlike other snails .  I like them .

I am going to get 2 or 3 more per tank .

The lady gave me the type of nerite but I forgot . Will find out come next week .

Very underrated snail which I never knew much about till you told me. I did know they were around but just assumed they were at best brackish .

Sorry to hear you lost them, By recycling the system , I imagine you mean the small tank where you raised the baby shrimp not the 55 ?

I had a smaller separate tank besides my 55 for Harlequins but never got any babies and had them for years.

subtletanks,

                     Now that look I like .

Soothing,

                 That is a lot for a shrimp , I draw the line at $500 per shrimp . I'm just kidding but like everything else in a few years the prices come down .  I remember when albino pythons came out  in the late 70's . They were $25,000 each and now you can find them in Flamingo park by the Everglades , lol.

In truth I highly doubt it will end but I know that in Florida and few other southern states ,they might stop mail pick up at our houses which I understand because there are a heck of a lot more houses now than 20 years ago and it has to be heavy to carry .

00Camaro,

                        I have seen the fugeray as local pet store has it and very nice . It the marine version on a 20 gallon long . I would have ordered one (planted tank version) but they can not be laid directly on glass and my filter is on the side of tank not rear thus not possible.

When I used to use CO2 ,  I would silicone the air line on the bottom of the cap bottle and the top.  I would also make the line hole (with a hot nail) slightly smaller than the width of the air line .

I never heard of that size tank.  Was it a display pet store tank and they ordered you a model?

Very unusual size .

I mentioned more plants only because I like plants lol but you set it up the way you like it . It does look nice I just happen to like jungles ,lol.

That is a nice shrimp, looks like a piece of ivory.

Ctaylor,

                There are countless ways to do salt but if I was doing a 55, I would only buy 25 lbs of live rock because too much rock displaces that much water and if anything you get dead spots instead of water circulating by the rocks . You can always add more if you want .

Gobies love the rock because they enjoy crevices to hide in or around and it becomes their territory .  I would place the rock on pieces of egg crate (only under the immediate rock not the whole tank) never in direct contact with the glass than add an inch of reef sand and after it cycled due to the rock . 

I would add a couple of Atlantic cucumbers and or the little white sand stars . They sift through the sand and keep it clean .

The colorful cucumbers can poison the water if they die .

A skimmer be it in the sump or hang like CPR backpack or the Remora are great skimmers but there are countless now.

The most expensive part is the initial set up because the rock isn't cheap at 25 lbs and the skimmer isn't cheap.

There are several goby and shrimp combos . I myself like the Dracula goby or the orange stripe prawn goby but there are several others .

There are other fish you could add which would get along well with goby/shrimp teams which stay on the bottom while other fish stay mid tank .

Nano-reef is a great site but most of them go full blown reef with hard coral which I never liked plus when I had tank the only lighting we had was flourescent .

You can have a great tank without difficult coral because even feather dusters all over look great.

I never had the goby/shrimp combo , I did have a yellow watchman goby but again nano-reef is very good .

Shrimp.

                  I pick up the nerites at the pet store later today , they came in yesterday .

Is the tank for shrimp or fish?

I commented on this but think I commented in the photo section by accident .

Is the tank a 40 gallon long ?

40 longs used to be common but now some places do not carry them .

The snails from that lake are also very pretty but plant eaters which rules them out in my case.

Thanks a lot everyone . I was hoping that I would get white, red and black shrimp.

Since not the case will keep them separate .

Why wont they breed if they are freshwater?

I do 5% of tank volume , every 3 days .

I use the water to water my plants and it certainly beats regular water .

I no longer test anything , I just do those water changes on schedule .