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[Killietalk] nerite snails
Someone was asking about acclimating nerite snails.....
I am the original person who posted about the nerites.
Acclimation really isn't necessary. These snails also live in brackish water and every time it rains, it's like being thrown in a new tank.
You CAN acclimate them. If you do, just a few hours is fine..... you really don't have to be precise at all.
But they won't die if you don't acclimate them at all.
I usually acclimate everything, just because it's what I do. But there have been times when I have recieved new snails and just thrown them in the tank : )
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1. Convention hotel (Doug Ebeling)
2. Re: Killietalk Digest, Vicious Blue Gularis
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3. Re: Killietalk Digest, Outstanding Aploceilus lineatus and
where has A. dayi gone? (apistomaster at excite_com)
4. Nerite snails (Doug Ebeling)
5. Re: Nerite snails (Jim Graham)
6. Re: Nerite snails (Tom Payne)
7. Re: Nerite snails (Anubias Design)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 23:48:44 -0500
From: "Doug Ebeling"
Subject: [Killietalk] Convention hotel
To:
Just now making my National Convention reservations and the Ramada is saying
they are full. I made a reservation at the Radisson next door at a much
higher price, $129 per night. They said they are going to check with the
hotel owners about an "AKA overflow price break". Keep your fingers
crossed, but don't hold your breath.
Here's the Radisson's phone number if you are in a similar late planning
situation, 414-764-1500. It is right next door to the convention. If my
memory is correct the convention hotel uses the Radisson's shuttle for the
airport.
Best Regards,
Doug Ebeling
AKA # 07861
Spring, Texas USA
e-mail: ebeling at charter_net
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 01:18:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "apistomaster at excite_com"
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vicious Blue Gularis
To: killietalk at aka_org
We should be careful about what we say about our "flag Fish" less some zealous enviromental bureaucrat decides to make the Blue Gularis the next Snakehead and they get banned across the Country. LOL.
Larry Waybright
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 01:57:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "apistomaster at excite_com"
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Outstanding Aploceilus
lineatus and where has A. dayi gone?
To: killietalk at aka_org
------------------------------Message: 6Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:27:43 -0700 (PDT)From: "J.W Ractliffe" Subject: [Killietalk] Aplocheilus lineatusTo: killietalk at aka_orgI'm new here and have been lurking for awhile. I readall the news letters as they hit my email.I am looking for a couple of female Aplocheiluslineatus. Any help in locating some would be mostappreciated.Jon Ractliffe.
Hi John,
I have a friend in town who happened to find a single young pair of the prettiest Aplocheilus lineatus wild form I have ever seen. He is not a killie breeder but I am coaching him through the steps to try to assure that we get this strain established. The spangles and color intensity of this male just has to be seen to be believed. We do not know the source of this pair but they are not "Golden Wonders". I suspect these are wild caught fish. I made up some mops and we just placed them in the A. lineatus tank tonght. There is already a heavy growth of Najas guadelupensis in their tank. Hopefully we will begin harvesting egg from the mops within a few days and hatch and raise some in their own tank.
The painted illustration in the old Exotic Aquarium Fishes is a close match except these fish are highly irridescent. Each scale is a spangle of a single color, red, gold, green, blue and yellow.The unpaired fins also show exceptional color.
You might like to add this e-mail address to your list with a note to follow up with an inquirry in six weeks or so to check in on our progess: apistomaster at excite_com
While on the subject of Aplocheilus, what ever happened to Aplocheilus dayi? I haven't seen any since 1970. This was a great fish. Similar to lineatus yet unique and they stayed at a more reasonable size. At least the fish I had seemed to max out smaller than A. lineatus. I received a single shipment of wild caught specimens and then they were gone from the scene. I haven't seen them listed among any of the results of the entrants in the National Conventions but I have been in an out of the killifish hobby over the years and may have missed them.
Larry Waybright
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:56:58 -0500
From: "Doug Ebeling"
Subject: [Killietalk] Nerite snails
To:
A thread ago somebody recommended Nerite snails for eating algae. The
statement was that they could be adapted to freshwater. I have acquired
several and intend on using them in a freshwater tank. My question, what
procedure should be used to adapt them from salt to fresh? How fast, hours,
days, etc?
Best Regards,
Doug Ebeling
AKA # 07861
Spring, Texas USA
e-mail: ebeling at charter_net
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:15:32 -0400
From: "Jim Graham"
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Nerite snails
To: "killifish discussion list"
We collect some every year on our travels to Florida. I use them in both fresh and
brackish tanks and I carefully acclimate them by throwing them in the tank I want them in.
Jim Graham
Hasting MI
Thornapple River drainage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ebeling"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: [Killietalk] Nerite snails
>A thread ago somebody recommended Nerite snails for eating algae. The
> statement was that they could be adapted to freshwater. I have acquired
> several and intend on using them in a freshwater tank. My question, what
> procedure should be used to adapt them from salt to fresh? How fast, hours,
> days, etc?
>
> Best Regards,
> Doug Ebeling
> AKA # 07861
> Spring, Texas USA
> e-mail: ebeling at charter_net
>
> Join the AKA at http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/content/index.php?id=9.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 11:19:36 -0400
From: Tom Payne
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Nerite snails
To: killifish discussion list
"I carefully acclimate them by throwing them in the tank I want them
in.", ................ Now, that made me laugh!! Gotta love the sense of
humor in a guy who wears bibs!
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Tom Payne
10100 Hoover Woods Rd.
Galena, Ohio 43021
740-965-9311
"You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first"
-C.S. Lewis, "First and Second Things", God in the Dock
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 08:27:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anubias Design
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Nerite snails
To: killifish discussion list
It's the extra pockets in the bibs that he brings all this stuff home in!
Mark
Tom Payne
wrote:
"I carefully acclimate them by throwing them in the tank I want them
in.", ................ Now, that made me laugh!! Gotta love the sense of
humor in a guy who wears bibs!
--
Tom Payne
10100 Hoover Woods Rd.
Galena, Ohio 43021
740-965-9311
"You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first"
-C.S. Lewis, "First and Second Things", God in the Dock
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