Tropical Fish Hobby Experience

Silver Flying Fox Crossocheilus reticulatus As already said in my older blog, i had a massive algae problem on my main living room fish tank after i introduced clea helena or assassin snails.  I had looked online on how to deal with it ASAP. I read somewhere about Siamese Algae eating fish but there was none available. Luckily i came across a person selling what looked like two Silver Flying fox fish who are said to be good at getting rid of algae.  Based on experience, these fish are really good at getting rid of algae, especially the hated beard algae.  At the start, as you can see in the video, i  made a claim that they don't damage the plants, but in the end, especially where algae has grown on the leaves, they tend to eat bits them, the leaves in the end would looked hacked, which ruins the aquarium plants, ultimately ruining the aesthetics of the fish tank. One of my plants had actually died because of it.  Despite all that, this fish do

Apple Snails aka Mystery Snails are very nice to look at. They are very mobile and come in different colours and shades. The first time i came across these critters was when I was 14, they were marketed as Golden snails 'kuhol' and sold in shops, imported from Thailand apparently. They quickly turned out to be pests eating everything in the ponds and ruining farmers livelyhood i.e. rice paddies [sic]. The ones that are sold here in the UK are quite smaller, they still look the same, but they don't eat the aquarium plants like the ones in the Philippines. Must be a different specie or something. Unfortunately, i had to get rid of these snails as they are Illegal here in the UK and the whole of EU. It was nice having them, luckily i still have videos of these snails. Here's one laying her eggs below Apple snails breeding, clip below: They can overtake your aquarium if you don't keep an eye on the eggs they lay on the hood or the sides of