THEFORDMAN00

I would love to take some platies of your hands

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Nick
125 gallon-72 inches long!
2 fluval 405's
2 aqua clear 500's (now known as the 110)
almost 1700 gph!!!!!!
There is no such thing as 2 much filtration!!!!!!!!!!!!

pappyy3

[quote=Tommy Gun;35937]Kuli,

Be careful about breeding apple snails...I have heard that many areas are starting to ban the sale of them...probably because they are so invasive and can propagate so rapidly. In fact, all of my LFS have stopped selling FW snails completely.

Hi Tommygun.

If you are referring to apple / mystery snails then i somewhat disagree with you about them being invasive.

These snails are probably the least invasive types of snails. The reason for this is:

1. They lay their (fairly large) eggs above the water line, which makes it easy to remove them, and thus control the population.

2. The majority of this species requires warm water (tropical) conditions to do well. They will usually perish in cold water.

Disadvantages of keeping these snails is that they can grow quite large, and therefore produce a lot of waste. They can also be ravenous eaters of plants, if they don't get fed adequately.