My Black Diamond tank! (lots of pictures)

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:27 AM

Hi everyone. Over the past year I've gotten this tank set up and going. In the past month I've had success breeding them finally!

The specs on this tank are pretty basic.

Tank: 10g AGA
Substrate: Red Sea Flora Base
Filtration: Tom's Rapids mini canister filter.
Lighting: Stock 15 watt t8 bulb.
Heater: (not chiller

) Visitherm stealth heater.

Flora:

Italian vals. (not sure on latin name, they where sold to me at a lfs)
Narrow or needle Java fern (not sure which)
Dwarf sag.
Flame moss
Willow mosses- frontinallis gigantea and a regular. (both collect locally by moi)
Fissidens Fontanus
Cypt wendettii red/green.
Susswassertang (spelling?)

Fauna:

Black Diamond- over 20 with babies too
Clithion snails- over 7
rams horn and pond snails... being squashed and fed to my shrimp

These first pictures are of before tank setup, tank setup and initial planting, a month later, then two months ago, finally today's pictures.

More in next post since I can only post 10 photos per post.
-Andrew

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:27 AM

-Andrew

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:28 AM

A few weeks after initial setup.

-Andrew

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:29 AM

Finally the scape fills in and the sun sets.

The population is growing finally!

See you around

-Andrew

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:29 AM

Here are some of the babies!

Following Pop

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 01:30 AM

Here is one of the moms, this girl is the higher grade of the two.

And here are some of the clithion snails in this tank as well as Black Diamonds.

One of two with this pattern of stripes.

Two on glass

A Black Diamond saying HI let me clean you off! To the suspected female. Another one is behind her...

-Andrew

**ndrake** · 21st Jan 2008, 04:20 AM

Whoa! simply amazing!
Thanks for taking time to upload all of this beautiful pictures
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...0th2008005.jpg
what are these snails called ? where did you get them ?

**AquaVu** · 21st Jan 2008, 11:53 AM

Nice photos. Great shots of the babies. Did you original started with only a pair of black diamonds? Great job breeding them. I've got 7 of them 3 months ago and still couln't get them to breed

**Fish Newb** · 21st Jan 2008, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by ndrake

Whoa! simply amazing!
Thanks for taking time to upload all of this beautiful pictures
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...0th2008005.jpg
what are these snails called ? where did you get them ?

They're called Clithions or Clithons or something of that type I'm still not positive on the correct spelling

I got them at my Local aquarium place, They where $2 per and they had no idea what they where.

Originally Posted by AquaVu

Nice photos. Great shots of the babies. Did you original started with only a pair of black diamonds? Great job breeding them. I've got 7 of them 3 months ago and still couldn't get them to breed

I bought a group of 20 A-S grades back in April-March of 07. Out of those only two where females. For a while I thought I only had males. Around 5 months later My first berried female appeared but dropped her eggs when I rescaped the tank. Since then the two where berried again in december and I only topped off the water and made sure they got plenty of food. Now I've got a 10g tank with baby shrimp everywhere I look!

Thanks,
-Andrew

**Frank** · 21st Jan 2008, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by ndrake

Whoa! simply amazing!
Thanks for taking time to upload all of this beautiful pictures
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...0th2008005.jpg
what are these snails called ? where did you get them ?

Clithon corona:
http://www.wirbellose-nrw.de/D/Schne...0corona%20.htm