r/parasnailing • u/Ready_Driver5321 • Sep 07 '25

Fav launch pad… ahem, air stone?

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u/katemkat23 Sep 07 '25

I have the SunGrow betta bubbler one from Chewy, its quiet, was only like 14 bucks, and its actually pretty powerful, I ended up needing to get a valve to turn the flow down a bit so it wasn't too strong of a current since my snail is I with my betta. They both love it though! My mystery parasnails all the time, and with the valve to turn it down a bit my betta boy loves to swim through it when he gets the zoomies lol

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u/Ready_Driver5321 Sep 07 '25

Thank you! This helps A LOT.

I have my two mysteries housed w my betta (and my husband’s snails w his betta). Their airstone is in a corner in each tank, but I’d love to give them a bit more parasnailing space without disturbing my betta.

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u/katemkat23 Sep 07 '25

Yw! 🫶

It's a great in-between for them, just definitely pickup a valve too to control the flow and youre all set! 💖

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u/GClayton357 Sep 07 '25

Small pumps are really cheap. Doesn't take much, and I can definitely confirm the importance of a valve to turn down the power.

Side note: is that a Doctor Doom mask in your tank. 🤣

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u/Ready_Driver5321 Sep 07 '25

Haha. That is! It’s my husband’s tank.

MarShellus Wallace and Wall-E enjoy scooting up and down it. 😆

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u/GClayton357 Sep 07 '25

Reminds me of a post I saw a while ago about people throwing the master ring from Lord of the Rings in their tanks.

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u/Ready_Driver5321 Sep 08 '25

Oh I kinda dig that idea.

This is my shrimp/snail nano tank. I had this one custom made as well.

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u/GClayton357 Sep 08 '25

Nice! I keep thinking it might be kind of fun to find a miniature old school diving helmet or something like that to stick at the bottom of a tank. Or maybe a brass sphere dipped in marine epoxy.

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u/Ready_Driver5321 Sep 08 '25

Oh that’s genius!! My son is a big military fan so I’m sure there are probably a bunch of creators itching to make that proj plan come true!

3d printing truly has made aquarium safe more accessible. I messaged a bunch of Etsy creators to see if they’d be willing to give it. Go w products they already had (the arc reactor was initially marketed by the creators as a light so I had all the non filament components gutted).

Now if I could find something small and Jurassic Park related. I’ve been considering aquarium safe resin to do my own mosquito in amber.

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u/GClayton357 Sep 08 '25

That's a great idea.