100 Malaysian Trumpet snails in 35g tank?

i started out with ten. i literally have thousands. they don't eat plants. they won't rob your Aunt Myrtle. sometimes they do the dishes. yes, you overdid it, but it will not destroy your tank. and you will definitely see them.

Not positive about them as a food source but when I bought snails I got about ten blue ramshorns about 3 or 4 of which were adults.... 3 weeks later and I probably have 200 baby snails just chugging away in there.

So you can get a hundred snails out of a few in relatively short time. I honestly have no clue whatsoever how people keep them in check. The tank they're in is a dedicated snail and fry tank so I'm not worried about getting overrun but all I've heard to get rid of them is manual removal and feed less fish food =/ so yeah you went a little overboard just because the reproduce so easily but no biggie =)

You can always sell some as puffer food to people on here. I started off with 50 spread between 3 of my tanks 4 months ago and I have fed my puffers literally thousands since then. MTS arent snails I get as "pets" like some of the other snails I've gotten. I got them because they are great for fluffing sand tanks and as food for my puffers. I have at least a hundred in my 20 tall, but I never see them except when I'm feeding the tank or at night. They know when you're feeding though and they all come up to the surface. It's kind of creepy...

Yeah probably over thinking it. I think they can leave a tank if there's room but I've never seen em come all the way out. Just really watch how much you feed and stuff and if it ever becomes a problem come back here and there's all kinds of tips for eliminating them.

lozt said:

I'm just worried they will reproduce so much that they will cover my whole tank and start coming out of the tank and all over my house... but maybe im over thiking it -- haha!

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Pretty sure they max out at a certain level. I need my thousands of MTS with my deep sand bed, but you may not. You may get alot, but if you don't feed them, they will not survive. Just feed how you would normally and let the snails eat ****, so to speak.


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They only over populate because of over feeding. So if your really good at not overfeeding you'll be fine. I have thousands, but I sell them. The last time I shipped out snails I had to count out 400-500. And that's not uncommon. Only 3 orders! I don't know why people want 200+ but they wanna pay I'll send them to them. Hell on aquabid someone is always trying to sell 1,000+ for like 100+ bucks! I've never had a MTS get out of a tank, mystery snails on the other hand....