Hi, all paro-friends
Asella do live in my paro tanks. The european one. They don’t breed because they need winter conditions for that, but do their work as cleaners, and live long although I seldom see them but for I change the tank, remove wood, leaves and so on. They don’t damage fish or eggs. They are too tough and big to be eaten.
Surprisingly, I have snails too, Melanoïdes tuberculata. This species is wiped out when ph is extremly weak, but can stand in most of my tank about ph 5 or more. No damage.
Physa (I don’t know if I have european species which invades with wild food or exotics) is sometimes here too.
I always “seed” my tanks with daphnia and wild plankton before I set the fishes, and regularly in summer. daphnia don’t stand long and don’t breed.
Greetings,
Hugues, from France