New photos

[Quetzacoatl]

Hi! After several weeks there are some new photos of my toads. I think they are doing well.

[Peakone]

I see not just the toads are doing well, but the plants aswell, gief some more pics of the viv

[s6t6nic6l]

i'm agree with peakone, get them pics up of the set-up. you should be showcasing this one.

[Digital]

I agree with the top two post. Also great looking toads as well. What kind of moss are you using?

[BrittanyLynn]

Very cool! Looks like very healthy Fire Bellied Toads to me!

[Quetzacoatl]

Thank you for all coments!

Scott: I´m using "my grandma´s garden moss", there are 3 different mosses, but I don´t know their names. In the water area it´s java moss.

The pics of the whole set-up will be tomorrow, because I need to clean the glass, it´s a bit "cloudy".

But you can enjoy two photos of my water plants and moss expanding over the cork background. If you look carefully, you can also see some kind of lichen.

...but I have problem with some small water snails...they are reproducing very fast and they are destroying these nice green plants.

[Digital]

Sounds like you have Pond Snails or Malaysian Trumpet Snails. I use to keep those guys for my breeding tanks. They make a good cleaning crew for uneaten fish food. Hard to get rid of though. Only way I know how to get rid of them is to clean out the whole tank. But if you leave one behind they will just come back. If your buying any live aquatic plants, you need to make sure to quarantine them for 2-3 weeks before adding them to any tank. If you don't want the snails that come with them. Pond Snails, are almost impossible to kill, you have to clean out the whole tank and bleach it. Also throw away the plants. If you don't want to go down that route, your just going have to pick them all out at night. Turn off the lights and make the room really dark for a couple hours. Then use a flash light and pull all the little suckers out. For MTS, it's not as hard, but still not safe for frogs or most animals. You need to raise the ph in the water, the more acidic, the faster they die off. It will slowly eat away at the shell's of the snails and then kill off 96% in two - three weeks. But their will be some still alive, so you will need to pluck them out as well. After all done with the snails, remove all the live plants. Quarantine them, for you can see any baby snails and just pluck them off of the plants as well. Before they get to adults and lay eggs.

[Quetzacoatl]

Sounds like...

Thank you very much for your advices! It´s like you said - I think I brought them to the tank with Limnobium laevigatum. I had only one plant there, now there are many, but the snails are multiplying faster than plants )

[Peakone]

Is it planorbis the troublemaker ?



They are really nasty to get rid of.

I have something more to suggest to use along with Scott's advice.

Get a bottle and cut the "throat" and flip the plastic inside, lure some fish food inside and place it in the water before you turn off the lights.
Here is 1 terrible paint to understand what im trying to explain.


Thats a little trap i use for shrimps (easy to get inside, but hard to find the way out ), but i noticed that many of my melanoides get inside aswell

Oh and btw dont forget to drill a small hole on the bottom of the bottle so the air can escape, else it will be floating around.

P.S. And if you do this, move your buddies to other tank for the night cuz you dont want a curious toad to get trapped inside and drown.

[Quetzacoatl]

Peakone: Thank you for your advice and your paint

So...as i promised, there are some another photos of the setup:

That white box is used for the toads when I clean the setup.

[Quetzacoatl]

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[Peakone]

Really, really awesome!

Is this Cabomba under the water btw?

[Quetzacoatl]

Thx. Yes, I think it´s Cabomba caroliniana