Hi all,
NPT #3 is a 55 gallon tank that gets about an hour of direct sunlight every day. It's heavily planted with crypts, vals, swords and ludwigia repens. The plants are doing great and there is little algae. For fish, there are a couple large Angels and 6 mature guppies. There is no water filtration - just a submerged pump for circulation.
My problem is about 200 Apple snails and maybe 300 Pond snails, and I'm wondering if this is just too much. You can tell the snails have stopped growing with the Apple snails averaging about 3/8"-1/2" diameter. The four original Apple snails died, evidently from starvation - only the vals look like they've been munched on.
I've also noticed the water getting very faintly cloudy compared to the crystal clear water in the other three NPTs. And just this past month, one of the guppies gave birth and it looks like 20 or so have escaped the Angels and will be allowed to mature unmolested.
So far the fish haven't shown any signs of oxygen deprivation but I'm worried about the cloudiness and whether I need to remove some of the animal life, specifically some of the Apple snails. Any thoughts?
Thanks in Advance!
NPT #3 is a 55 gallon tank that gets about an hour of direct sunlight every day. It's heavily planted with crypts, vals, swords and ludwigia repens. The plants are doing great and there is little algae. For fish, there are a couple large Angels and 6 mature guppies. There is no water filtration - just a submerged pump for circulation.
My problem is about 200 Apple snails and maybe 300 Pond snails, and I'm wondering if this is just too much. You can tell the snails have stopped growing with the Apple snails averaging about 3/8"-1/2" diameter. The four original Apple snails died, evidently from starvation - only the vals look like they've been munched on.
I've also noticed the water getting very faintly cloudy compared to the crystal clear water in the other three NPTs. And just this past month, one of the guppies gave birth and it looks like 20 or so have escaped the Angels and will be allowed to mature unmolested.
So far the fish haven't shown any signs of oxygen deprivation but I'm worried about the cloudiness and whether I need to remove some of the animal life, specifically some of the Apple snails. Any thoughts?
Thanks in Advance!