need a little advice - baby brigs?

savi

savi

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I am pretty sure I have a bunch of baby brigs in my tank. I have like 10 or so brigs of assorted colors and I've seen them look like they were mating before but never saw an egg clutch. I suppose they could have hidden it somewhere that I never noticed it. I have a couple of tiny baby ramshorns but I don't think they are big enough to breed plus these babies don't look like ramshorns the shells look like little tiny versions of brigs. Some of them look like they have a purple tint to them, some of them just look white/translucent and some of them look like they might have a little blue to them but they are very small so its hard to tell. They just appeared yesterday LOL. So I was wondering if you could give me any advice to ensure their survival. My tank is a 75 gallon planted and they are in there with guppies, a few platies, a juvie bn pleco, and a school of cories. I am thinking I should cover my filter intakes so they don't get sucked in if they go near it, do you have any other advice for extra care or feeding? I'd love to have them survive to keep for myself and share with others.
 
Check out this thread for snail jello http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135871 I also feed kens catfish pellets and kens calcium enriched vegetable pellets found at kensfish.com I also supplement Tums for calcium, just drop em in...they will cloud the water a bit but your filter should take care of that and it isn't harmful to fish or inverts.

Other than making sure they are fed, keeping the tank temp below 78 will help them to grow slower and keeps their shells nicer. Regular tank cleaning as usual, just vacuum into a bucket to make sure if you do suck any of them up you can put them back in the tank from the bucket.
 
Thanks, I did confirm they are indeed brigs, found the dried out remains of the egg clutch while doing a water change today, it was hidden where I couldn't see it until I took the canopy and glass tops off.
 
savi, how big is the tank? it may not seem like a bunch of baby snails could make a lot of waste, but they do, and they grow fast. my latest clutch that hatched out, some of the snails are already as big as their dad at over 1 inch and if i recall correctly, this clutch hatched less than four months ago.

so make sure your filtration can handle the bioload these babies will create. i'd up your water change schedule some once the baby snails start growing, just to keep up the water quality. and be prepared for not all of them to make it, thats why these snails lay so many eggs, survival of the fittest.
 
It is a 75 gallon tank. It's planted and I do 40% water changes weekly on it. I do feed snail jello to help with their shells. I've got 2 big HOB type filters on it but I will up the water changes as needed to help with the bioload and I can always get another grow out tank in a couple weeks if needed. I was planning on doing that anyway for a guppy fry tank eventually.
 
by the sounds of it, your tank seems the right size and stocked appropriately that you could leave the baby briggs in there until they are big enough to sell/give away, if you are planning to do that. i might just toss another filter on the tank, depending on how big your hobs are, and up the water change schedule some. looks like you've got a good setup and a good plan.

i just went back and reread your question of covering the intakes with something to keep the babies out of the filter. take a cube of filter sponge and bore a hole down the middle of one side, about two thirds down or so and slide the filter intake tube end into the hole in the sponge. presto! and you have a nice prefilter on your hob now to boot.

i never did cover my filter intakes, but i was running just a small Aquaclear and i turned the flow down some. only a couple shells turned up on filter cleaning day.
 
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