Ok..so I've found myself with snails after buying a plant..and they are EVERYWHERE!..they're really annoying me.

So..my question is..if I get my other tanks set up..cycle the water, transfer my fish to THAT tank..how do I make sure there are no eggs, etc on my driftwood? Will boiling it kill the ...

Do you happen to know the 'rough' diameters of them? Probably save me some trial and error

*waves* former huh? How long ago did you move?

And thanks very much. Just spent an hour getting all the gravel out!! Will do the sand tonight after work.

Ok..got everything I wanted for it..but I have a question.

I bought pool filter sand..it says it's clean and inert; but do I have to do anything to it before I add it to the tank?

My first one was my Hypostomus Soniae. It was supposed to be a Hypancistrus sp., but it was sent to the fish store instead so I snapped him up!

Welcome to the site!

Thank you very much guys.

I've decided to do three things.

Change my substrate to a mix of sand, small rocks and a few large rocks for athetics.

Get a sponge prefilter.

Add a powerhead and just feed my airline through it, taking my air-bar out.

The sponge prefilter will also prevent sand from ...

I'd considered that, but my only option, financially would be to move to a larger hanging filter.

And I LIKE the Aquaclear, but I didn't think it would increase the current in the water as well as increase the filtration.

But..maybe I'll change to sand and a bigger filter instead for now and see ...

Wow..there is sooo much information here, and already I've learned so much about my fish. Mostly that I shouldn't have jumped into them so quickly!!

I have a question..and am looking for suggestions/ opinions.

I have a 30 gallon aquarium. 30long x 12 deep x 17" tall *roughly - I don't have a tape ...

Yeah..I was astounded by the tanks. It's sooo lovely. It inspired me to go hunting around and I found some lovely biotope information in Shane's World for some types.

Thank you Mats; I was wondering about the Hypostomus/ Cochilodon names; now I understand it. And I can clearly see how much easier it is to refer to them by scientific names.

I get the L 137 on accident and spend a lot time trying to figure out what it was. Most people were telling me it was a blue ...

I appologize for the confusion..yes. the L200 was the new one that I don't have a picture of yet. I ONLY know a few common names; and still learning the scientific names of them.

I hope that I am right in saying Green Phantom.

Ok..well I've only got a picture of one of my guys..I've had the Green Phantom only since yesterday!

I'll post a link here..when I get more of these guys I'll just start my own gallery!

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/Selyna_bucket/fishflash.jpg

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288 ...

I'm From Bay City, Michigan In the U.S.

*waves* Thought I'd come in and say hi too.

Hi Dawn.

Question for the mods. Can we post pics of our guys in these threads? *yeah..I want to show of some blurry pics *

Thank you guys for the welcome. Just starting to poke around here. A dizzying amount of information..and some very very cool cats.

*note to self: More tanks*

Hi! I just joined the sight. I've got two lovely Plecos that I *believe* are an L137 and an L200.

I think I've decided to start a rare pleco collection :D

I've got four tanks; 2 30 gallon; 1 five gallon *for my blue crayfish*; and one as yet to be set up 175 gallon one!

I'm hoping to find a lot ...