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well my grandpa decided he want to change back to plastic plants because the real plants are too much upkeep for him. he called last night and asked if i would want them, and of course i said yes. but is there anything i need to do before i put them in my tank? i dont want anything to go wrong.... please help! there are 8 plants he wants to give to me. i have a 20 gal with 6 cories 4 red eyed tetras 7 platies and 1 apple snail

Last edited by BabyBlueEyes at 08-Feb-2005 14:16

I'm fairly sure your apple snail will eat the plants, however if you provide enough fresh veggies for it they might survive.

What kind of lighting and what kind of substrate in the tank currently? Did he say which plants you would be getting? Different plants have different lighting requirements so getting the right ammount of light before you add them to the tank will help.

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well i bought the plants for him but now he dont want them anymore....and i have live plants right now and the apple snail dosent eat them he eats all the leftovers and the algea shes a great cleaner upper! lol i dont really know the names of the plants but they are the same ones in my tank. right now i have black gravel. i have a light that came with the tank i bought from petsmart its a regular floresent lightbulb but i dont know how many watts.....it works good i geuss as i have algea growth..

by the way is that a picture of you in the snow? under your screen name at the right? LOL i was just wondering

Not all applesnails eat plants. If it's barely growing and hasn't passed 2inches it's probably not the plant eating kind. Also the plant eating ones generally are only sold in yellow with white feet. The other kind comes in a rainbow of colors including my olive green ones with purple stripes, blue, yellow, brown.... I have 200 baby applesnails and 4 adults. They only nibble the dying parts of plants or old leaves if they haven't gotten enough to eat. I can't promise any applesnail will turn down really green new shoots. I don't start my bulbs in the tank for that reason. The kind of snail I have is actually more of a meat eater and prefers shrimp pellets or bloodworms.

lol thats cool mine are yellow with white feet and they have bright orange specks on thier feet! they are really amazing! anyways i got another apple snail and this one is 10X bigger than the one i had before....its huge maybe 3inches will he eat my plants? he hasent moved since i got him...

Hasnt moved since you got him ....poke him with a stick see if he moves! Kidding of course. I've never had one so I was going with the info from [link=applesnail.net]http://www.applesnail.net" style="COLOR: #EB4288[/link]. If he does start to eat them then you can always use it as an excuse to get another tank !.

no that's not me, that's my alien clone *runs and hides in embarresment.

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lol......thanks for your help! and it still hasent moved lmao weird huh? well ill just keep checking up on him from time to time