platy - I would not invest too much getting these. I imported a dozen from Germany a few Months ago, and they are not doing well in my baked clay substrate tank with low gh/kh/nitrate/phosphate,6.6pH,74F,nosalt. my observations are they stay buried in substrate much more than MTS do, and they do NOT climb the tank glass at night for air like most other trumpet snails. oddly I have never seen them gather around a wide variety of food I have tried with much enthusiasm like my ramshorn snails. after months in my tank these snails remain small, and I have not found any sign of breeding yet, so again, in order to thrive they may need specific tank conditions such as harder gh salt higher pH and temp water, not found in the average zebra shrimp optimized planted tank like mine. I suspect reseller details on these snails is inaccurate since they get breeding information third hand from exporters, and resellers may not stock these long enough in their holding tanks to really know what conditions they prefer in order to grow and breed properly.
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