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re: snail attack correction
> On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:50:10 -0400 James Garriss wrote:
>Well, I have a power filter on my 55 gal community tank. Somehow, most
>likely from a plant I bought, some snails got into the filter. It's turned
>into a regular breeding ground for these guys. At first it worried me and
>I religiously tried to kill all the snails when I cleaned my aquarium. But
>over the months, I've never noticed these guys in my aquarium, so I stopped
>persecuting them.
Of course what I *meant* to say was that I tried to kill all the snails
when I cleaned my *filter*. I've never had to clean them out from my
aquarium.
Anyone else using their filter as a snail breeding pit? Care to speculate
as to whether they help keep the algae in the filter down?
James Garriss System Engineer, MITRE
jpg at langley_mitre.org http://www.cs.odu.edu/~garriss