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I've come to the conclusion that I couldn't care less about fish anymore. I'm more into shrimp as it happens to be and I haven't exactly found the two to be compatible the way I want. That being said, my newest plants for my 10 gallon came with the prerequisite ramshorn (assumed) snails. I've been reading quite a bit about how they're not quite the pariah I once thought they were, but I'm still on the fence about them. My biggest concern is I'll be changing out my substrate to a black sand and I really don't want to have to constantly dig out red shells lying around.
I'm currently on the fence with two options:
1) Buy a loach that I'll later have to toss into my 55 and that I'll honestly probably not care too much about later, or
2) Let them go and hope I can control the population.
I usually drop food into my tank on Wednesday and Saturday, bloodworms mixed with daphnia for the frogs and shrimp. I haven't ever really been concerned with slightly overfeeding, as the shrimp clean it up throughout the days between feeding. I've come to understand this can cause a huge explosion in a snail population.
To get to the question, is a snail population actual "work" to control? That's really not work I want to do, and I'd rather deal with a fish I couldn't actually care less about. Yeah, I know it sounds lazy, but I have my priorities. As always, thanks for any help.
I'm currently on the fence with two options:
1) Buy a loach that I'll later have to toss into my 55 and that I'll honestly probably not care too much about later, or
2) Let them go and hope I can control the population.
I usually drop food into my tank on Wednesday and Saturday, bloodworms mixed with daphnia for the frogs and shrimp. I haven't ever really been concerned with slightly overfeeding, as the shrimp clean it up throughout the days between feeding. I've come to understand this can cause a huge explosion in a snail population.
To get to the question, is a snail population actual "work" to control? That's really not work I want to do, and I'd rather deal with a fish I couldn't actually care less about. Yeah, I know it sounds lazy, but I have my priorities. As always, thanks for any help.
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