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[Pulliamj]

Don't get me wrong undergravel filters are great. Just not with lots of waste that can't be cleaned properly and frequent enough. The only drawback with undergravel filters is when you clean them you completely disturb the biological layer. But with fish only aquariums I think they are fine. Cleaning a undergravel filter that needs cleaning is quite a undertaking. I like trickle filters the best. Running the most amount of water each hour through the filter is the most important thing IMO.

[Vendayn]

Sadly the female died. The male and other female weren't fighting her at all, I kept a close eye on that. But, she was already injured when I got her and there were tons of birds down at the drying out pond, getting fish and crawdads. I at least saved one crawdad who I put in the bigger pond. But the female I kept, even when I first got her she wasn't really swimming properly.

 

So, I still have a male and female, plus the little baby one.

[Vendayn]

I got a bunch of freshwater snails and more algae. And I accidentally got a toad tadpole, guess it was in the algae. I wasn't really planning on keeping a toad...but, ah well. I moved it out of my crawdad habitat though, I don't want it to get eaten.

 

(edit: Guess I got 5 tadpoles! There must have been a lot hiding in the algae.)

 

And supposedly crawdads will eat the snails. The snails are rather small though, but maybe they'll eat some of them. Otherwise I'll end up with too many snails! The algae had a lot in it. I'll need to keep that in mind next time I get algae down at the river, there is a lot of life in it.

Edited by Vendayn, July 14 2015 - 3:31 PM.