Tank Set-ups!

[kippen]

... well I've been trying to get live plants to grow in my snail tank for a while now... with little success!! So the other day I decided it was time to take them out and try again some other time (either the tank was too dark or too small but they just kept dying)

Since takin the plants out the snailies have been living with very little cover ... oh I also had to remove their branch as it was rotting, which they were not happy about... so all they were left with was their mossy pot and small fake ivy plant. They were really miserable so I was desperate to get them some new decor to give them something fun to do!

Anyway... the last few nights after school I've been popping into the pet shop on the way to the bus to see if they had any cheap decor that I could afford and tonight when I went in they had their fake plants on sale so I decided to get them another small vine (the really small ones look more like bushes than vines which is quite cool) then when I went to pay I saw a pile of newly delivered cork bark ... I've been wanting to get them some cork bark for ages but haven't been able to find a piece small enough to fit in their tank... I had a rummage and found the perfect piece!!! And it just kept getting better!!! Because when I took it to the till to ask how much it was... it was 15p!!!!!!

... 15p!!

I couldn't believe it! There tank now looks amazing again and all I had to spend was £1.15!!! I just thought it was so incredible I had to share and I will hopefully get some picks of it soon!!

[jolovessnailies]

That really is a bargain hun, I have just bought mine some fake vine and it looks nice draped across the back of the tank, they weren't 15p though, well done for finding them.

Hugs
Jo xx

[snailcrazy]

I tried spider plants once and the little slimers ate them. I hwve had lettuce and cress growing for them to nibble on but found it gets quite slimy after a while. I have fish tank plants in my tanks and some long pieces of ivy attached to the top and put round a piece of bark. My panthera love it. It is their favorite hiding place. My other snails love the plastic plants and hide in them and my bulldozers love the fresh moss I collect. It trial and error with decor. Sometimes they love it and sometimes don't.

[snailcrazy]

Lol I love bargins like that.

[jolovessnailies]

I have just ordered some more plastic plants for my snaily tank and they look really nice. I say that, they start off looking nice but end up being dragged around the tank in various directions LOL!!

Hugs
Jo xx

[etana]

Ah, great bargains.
My fake ivy and fake fern are loved very very much, judging from all the soil and poop I have to wash/scr@pe off them, and even eggs from the fern!
The fulica took a while getting used to the tank-high fake tree I got them from Ikea, but now they make some funny acrobatics on the branches and sleep on the trunk.

Also I found a cheap brand of coir from a shop that sold supplies for plants, which was good. Just had to be extra careful that I got the kind with no fertiliser and no pesticide. Its texture was slightly different to the "Exo Terra Plantation Soil" so the snails were careful at first, but got used to it soon enough.

[jolovessnailies]

Yes Etana, they love to drag it around the tank with them don't they LOL? I wish I could find some read made up coir but nowhere seems to sell it. When we next have a bit of money which will be this tuesday I have to order some more blocks but would much rather order it already done as you can compost or peat.

Hugs
JO xx

[snailcrazy]

I got a couple of huge blocks of coir from Home Bargins in summer it was 1.99 per bag and the size of each block was 2 times the size of the reptile coir from the pet shops. So obviously I bought them out at that price.

[jolovessnailies]

I would love to find something like that hun, I don't think we have a Home Bargains around here just B and M and I am sure they wouldn't sell it.

Hugs
Jo xx

[etana]

Forgot to mention that I too found just blocks, but they were nice - cheap and big and clean. I don't know where to find it ready made. Our other mods might though.

[jolovessnailies]

Thanks Etana hun, I don't think you can get it ready made to tell you the truth, I only wish you could. I will keep looking.

Hugs
JO xx

[kippen]

I've finally got some pics of their new set up but when I just tried to put them on it said it couldn't attach them as the file was too big... when it clearly wasn't as I checked the amount of data it was using... does anybody know a way around it or is it just one of those things?!!

[etana]

Umm, the pic attachment feature has always worked for me. 1mb per file just isn't very much. If you like, you can email me the pics and I can see if I can reproduce the problem?

[jolovessnailies]

Oh Kippen love, you are asking the wrong person, I am quite a dumb dumb when it comes to anything technical. Good luck though and we look forward to seeing the pictures. I must take some of mine and post them, if I can produce any reasonable pics that is LOL!! Etana to the rescue as usual bless you hun.

Hugs
Jo xx

[kippen]

Well its been a while since I've been on here!! Been so busy recently I've just not had the time! I've had a major clean out of all my tanks today... sorting and scrubbing everything... and I remembered to get some pics of the new snaily set up be for the snails and food went in and it all got wrecked!!