Invertebrates

Invertebrates
20-01-2008

I was just wondering how many of you keep inverts as pets, I have two, A Whistling Spider (Phlogius Sarina)
and a Desert scorpion (Urodacus yaschenkoi).

I'd like to hear about you inverts?

20-01-2008

Giant Burrowing Cockroaches
Desert Scorpion
Flinders Range Scorpion
Alpiine Rock Scorpion
Rainforest Scorpion
Tarantula
Hermit Crabs
Goliath Stick Insect
Leafy Stick Insect
Giant Millipede
Giant Centipede
Desert Crabs
rHINO bEETLES
AND on occasion, butterflies

20-01-2008

taht sounds like the list of species on a website Jarkari?

20-01-2008

no from an email actually ben, I can't remember some of the bugs so I just read the invoice from the breeder. only have the roaches and the stick insects at the moment the rest arrive later, and the butterflies I only get in for weddings and funerals and stuff.

20-01-2008

yeah its cool, i know that breeder

Does the list include Corals or Anenomes?
Or every marine invert i find in live rock?

20-01-2008

Yeah from him. . . . ah say what?

21-01-2008

I have some small aquatic snails in my larger aquarium; they're quite pesky. They damage your plants. I haven't seen any in a while, but I know they're still there.

I don't get them on purpose though ; they come in with aquatic plants from the shop. I guess the places where they grow these aquatic plants are contaminated by these snails.

21-01-2008

that happened to me too!!!! it started with like one or two and then they bred like crzy and now their every where and are clogging up the filter and stuff! if you find out how to get rid of them let me know...

21-01-2008

A clown loach will eat all your snails, or a reticulated or dwarf loach, dont use kuhlu loaches they wont eat snails enough

21-01-2008

Same thing happened to me when I used to have an aquarium, And I done what Ben said I bought a couple of clown loaches, They worked! got rid of them all. just be carful when I went to the pet shop and asked a person working there how to get rid of snails he recomened a chemical that you put in the water that kills snails put not fish, This dosnt work because when the snails die they add some sort of substance to the water that poisons it, So yere steer clear of any shelf products, And go with the Loachs.

21-01-2008

yip, its called decomposing corpses

30-01-2008

Pufferfish work just as hard as loaches. We have a clown loach to deal with the bigger snails and half a dozen Malabar dwarf puffers for the little ones.

Alan

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30-01-2008

That is true, but one thing. Puffers are quite agressive and may start attacking other fish. Not a good choice if you have any smaller of weaker or fragile fish in your tank.
If it's big enough (as they grow quite large) loaches are better.

Btw, I've gotten rid of my snails by catcing or killing all snails I could see (my cichlid loved them, so I fed him the snails).After a while, I did not spot any snail ever again.
Maybe it has to do with the fact my waterplants have been in a bad condition for a while.

31-01-2008

You're right of course Xerxes.
We keep the little Malabars on their own.
Actually the best snail crunchers I know are Astatoreochromis alluaudi, medium sized cichlids from the area around Lake Victoria, they have such big teeth and jaw muscles that they can crush adult Malayan livebearing snails.

Alan

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