AquaRank.com

FishProfiles.com Message Forums

faq | etiquette | register | my account | search | mailbox
# FishProfiles.com Message Forums
L# Marine Aquaria
 L# General Marine
  L# EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
 New Topic
SubscribeEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Azizza
******
----------
Mega Fish
Posts: 1134
Kudos: 713
Votes: 0
Registered: 09-Mar-2003
male usa
So I am looking into my tank and noticed that things looked a little cloudy. I thought this was strange so I checked my sump to make sure that my algae hadn't gone sexual. All was fine there and the tank continued to get worse.

After a lot of searching I noticed most of my snails were pushing themselves up and exposing their feet. It seems that they all decided this was a fine day to spawn. My skimmer is going nuts, my tank is a good bit cloudy and I am left thinking EWWW!.

Anyway. Should I do a water change or should things be ok?
Post InfoPosted 26-Jan-2006 11:40Profile PM Edit Report 
amilner
******
-----
Big Fish
Posts: 429
Kudos: 654
Votes: 0
Registered: 05-Jul-2004
male uk
Spawning (particularly of inverts) generally does cause the water to go cloudy. As long as your tank is big enough to cope with the added bioload, and you keep maintaining the skimmer, you should be fine.
Post InfoPosted 26-Jan-2006 11:40Profile PM Edit Report 
fishheadfred
----------
Fish Addict
Posts: 708
Kudos: 653
Votes: 12
Registered: 30-Jul-2003
male usa
O.K. now that I'm done laughing.....wait... sorry about that!

I have a few baby snails running around but I have never seen a "love cloud"
Post InfoPosted 26-Jan-2006 11:40Profile PM Edit Report 
New Topic
Jump to: 

The views expressed on this page are the implied opinions of their respective authors.
Under no circumstances do the comments on this page represent the opinions of the staff of FishProfiles.com.

FishProfiles.com Forums, version 11.0
Mazeguy Smilies