Thinking about going bare bottom..

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xvCODY
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Thinking about going bare bottom..

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..In my snail breeding tank. Any input?
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Re: Thinking about going bare bottom..

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most of my readings have agreed that snails do not care whether they have substrate or not, and that having a bare tank bottom makes cleaning really easy for snail breeder tanks.

However, you don't have your bacteria bed with no substrate... But I'm not sure snails are too picky about all that either.
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Re: Thinking about going bare bottom..

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xvCODY wrote:..In my snail breeding tank. Any input?

I used to have substrate in the snail tank. And I dreaded cleaning it. Absolutely hated it. I have always hated the look of bbtanks, so I wanted gravel. Finally got tired of it and took it out, it's been the best thing I have ever done for it because now, it's so much easier to maintain and keep clean. Snails are breeding more too. HTH
5.5g: Pond snails
5.5g: Red Cherry Shrimp and Rams
10g: PZ the Pee Wee (DP), Ghost shrimp, Otos x3
36g: Luau the F8, Zebra nerites x8, sometimes a herd of ghost shrimp for food
60g: Perches the starry blenny, 1 watchman goby Snaps the l.c. hermit, 2 emerald crabs, 1 red crab, 2 turbos, 7 asteas, 2 nerites, 2 clown gobies and 2 firefish gobies (upgrading to a 90 gallon reef)

RIP Yoshi, you are dearly missed <3
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