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Now I am really confused. Per this thread..http://www.applesnail.net/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=15006..
- all vegie diet for young or breeding canas, or those in warm water will result in predatory tendencies.
This is exactly what I was doing. The temperature is 74-76 degrees as what it should be. Anything higher will trigger them to turn over their smaller siblings for food although the cannibalism incident (which I just recalled) happened during my vacation due to shortage of food supply after my refusal to entrust anyone to feed them due to high risk of overfeeding. The babies were never fed with meat which as I repeated earlier, they begin to cannibalize once they get a taste for the meat. I do believe the incident involving the disappearance of their smaller siblings may have somehow triggered them to prey again and this time turning their teeth on my fish. On the other hand, the hatchlings may have simply died from starvation and the older siblings didn't pass the opportunity to eat them out of their shells but in my loaches' case, they never had a history for any illnesses and any symptoms would have been detected immediately considering I monitor all my tanks daily. The above possibilities based on cannibalistic tendencies are theories but still likely.
I think I should check the crude protein of the shrimp pellets I am using as it was simply in a bag repackaged and meant as a treat for the snails. Will have to switch to other brands with high protein. Oftentimes, the crude protein of shrimp pellets is 38% just like any other brands I find. Feeding them a high protein diet is not the same as feeding them meaty foods which could adversely change their behavior. Maybe a brand with 42% crude protein will do the trick and at the very least, minimize or reverse their cannibalistic tendencies although they never had issues with their operculums nor their shells which would require protein and calcium respectively. I think it falls down to hunger triggered by insufficient protein diet. The shrimp pellets seem very insufficient somehow.
There is another case where the owner had to feed her canas meat to avert the cannibalistic tendencies towards her diffusas. Fortunately, I don't do this mix as I had always known my snails might pick off the poor diffusas especially as the latter barely can make a run for the food compared to the canas.
I don't know I just find somehow the canas are best kept by themselves which I do with the exception of the loaches that they eventually eliminated. If there has to be a fish, it would have to be one that can swat the snail off with ease if it attempts to latch on the skin to gnaw on it alive.
- all vegie diet for young or breeding canas, or those in warm water will result in predatory tendencies.
This is exactly what I was doing. The temperature is 74-76 degrees as what it should be. Anything higher will trigger them to turn over their smaller siblings for food although the cannibalism incident (which I just recalled) happened during my vacation due to shortage of food supply after my refusal to entrust anyone to feed them due to high risk of overfeeding. The babies were never fed with meat which as I repeated earlier, they begin to cannibalize once they get a taste for the meat. I do believe the incident involving the disappearance of their smaller siblings may have somehow triggered them to prey again and this time turning their teeth on my fish. On the other hand, the hatchlings may have simply died from starvation and the older siblings didn't pass the opportunity to eat them out of their shells but in my loaches' case, they never had a history for any illnesses and any symptoms would have been detected immediately considering I monitor all my tanks daily. The above possibilities based on cannibalistic tendencies are theories but still likely.
I think I should check the crude protein of the shrimp pellets I am using as it was simply in a bag repackaged and meant as a treat for the snails. Will have to switch to other brands with high protein. Oftentimes, the crude protein of shrimp pellets is 38% just like any other brands I find. Feeding them a high protein diet is not the same as feeding them meaty foods which could adversely change their behavior. Maybe a brand with 42% crude protein will do the trick and at the very least, minimize or reverse their cannibalistic tendencies although they never had issues with their operculums nor their shells which would require protein and calcium respectively. I think it falls down to hunger triggered by insufficient protein diet. The shrimp pellets seem very insufficient somehow.
There is another case where the owner had to feed her canas meat to avert the cannibalistic tendencies towards her diffusas. Fortunately, I don't do this mix as I had always known my snails might pick off the poor diffusas especially as the latter barely can make a run for the food compared to the canas.
I don't know I just find somehow the canas are best kept by themselves which I do with the exception of the loaches that they eventually eliminated. If there has to be a fish, it would have to be one that can swat the snail off with ease if it attempts to latch on the skin to gnaw on it alive.
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