assassin snail food??

i dont have any assassins yet. its just a thought. i have MTS in 2 10g and i kinda seeded the 30g with a few. i also have them in a liter container sitting in the window. i change the water every few days. the algae grows from natural sunlight and they eat it and reproduce at fast rates.
 
Lupin,

What do you feed your MTS? Over tax season I was a little lax feeding my loaches and they pretty much decimated my MTS population in that tank, which was the largest population I have. I been throwing more MTS in there and feeding the loaches regularly, but I still haven't seen much of a rebound in the MTS population. Granted, it has only been 3 weeks since the end of tax season, but I want to make sure I am doing the best I can to get that MTS population back on track because I am seriously thinking about some assassins.
 
fabsroman said:
Lupin,

What do you feed your MTS? Over tax season I was a little lax feeding my loaches and they pretty much decimated my MTS population in that tank, which was the largest population I have. I been throwing more MTS in there and feeding the loaches regularly, but I still haven't seen much of a rebound in the MTS population. Granted, it has only been 3 weeks since the end of tax season, but I want to make sure I am doing the best I can to get that MTS population back on track because I am seriously thinking about some assassins.
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What loaches do you have? I also keep loaches, mostly botiine genus where no species of snail is safe at all, not even MTS. I simply feed the MTS with anything I can find for my other snails including snail jello, veggies, plaster of Paris pucks, algae, commercial foods, etc. Overfeed a bit so the MTS can forage something but this is best done without the loaches around.
 
Lupin said:
What loaches do you have? I also keep loaches, mostly botiine genus where no species of snail is safe at all, not even MTS. I simply feed the MTS with anything I can find for my other snails including snail jello, veggies, plaster of Paris pucks, algae, commercial foods, etc. Overfeed a bit so the MTS can forage something but this is best done without the loaches around.
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I have Angelicus loaches and Clown loaches, and the MTS population used to be rather prolific. I'm talking about hundreds of them in the tank. Now, I'm lucky if I can find 20 of them while sorting through the gravel. I thought I had tons in the tank right after tax season ended because when I looked in the tank I saw tons of them at the surface during lights on, which usually means the tank is flooded with them. After tax season I got back to my neglected tanks and pulled out over 100 empty MTS shells and could hardly find a live MTS snail anywhere. I wasn't too happy with myself.
 
fabsroman said:
I have Angelicus loaches and Clown loaches, and the MTS population used to be rather prolific. I'm talking about hundreds of them in the tank. Now, I'm lucky if I can find 20 of them while sorting through the gravel. I thought I had tons in the tank right after tax season ended because when I looked in the tank I saw tons of them at the surface during lights on, which usually means the tank is flooded with them. After tax season I got back to my neglected tanks and pulled out over 100 empty MTS shells and could hardly find a live MTS snail anywhere. I wasn't too happy with myself.
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Both species are avid snail consumers. Do you have another tank to spare the MTS?
 
Lupin said:
Both species are avid snail consumers. Do you have another tank to spare the MTS?
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The loach tank is a 75 with a 55 gallon refugium underneath it that is heavily planted. Problem is that the plants are all in their own pots to make cleaning easier and I doubt the MTS would do too well with that setup. I am in the process of setting up a 29 gallon tank and wanted to put assassins in it since I have a proliferation of ramshorns right now in the 55, but it looks like it is going to have to be my designated MTS/shrimp tank for now with me holding off on the assassins. Such is life.
 
Why not get a 5-10g for the MTS? I spread my MTS around other snail tanks so the assassins continue to have a constant supply of snails although I don't know how long they'll last in one tank where I kept my goldfish under quarantine.
 
Lupin said:
Why not get a 5-10g for the MTS? I spread my MTS around other snail tanks so the assassins continue to have a constant supply of snails although I don't know how long they'll last in one tank where I kept my goldfish under quarantine.
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If I went with a 10 gallon solely for the MTS, what would I need to do to keep them happy? Would a sponge filter, light, and gravel be enough, or do I need something more than that like a hang on filter?
 
fabsroman said:
Lupin,

What do you feed your MTS? Over tax season I was a little lax feeding my loaches and they pretty much decimated my MTS population in that tank, which was the largest population I have. I been throwing more MTS in there and feeding the loaches regularly, but I still haven't seen much of a rebound in the MTS population. Granted, it has only been 3 weeks since the end of tax season, but I want to make sure I am doing the best I can to get that MTS population back on track because I am seriously thinking about some assassins.
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I feed all my snails on 2 things Snail Jello and Green Beans and my populations explode....:evil_lol:

Green Beans are the main food I throw some in at lights out and in the morning they are gone or I have a MTS/Bladder/Quilted Melenia/Pond/Ramshorn/Apple/Unknown/shrimp pile where the green bean is.

At $.50 a can I can feed my tanks 3 days on a can it is a cheap food source along with the jello and calcium plucks I have more snails than I can count.

fabsroman said:
If I went with a 10 gallon solely for the MTS, what would I need to do to keep them happy? Would a sponge filter, light, and gravel be enough, or do I need something more than that like a hang on filter?
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Sand as a substrate only about .5 to 1 inch deep, standard aquarium light, sponge filter, and constant food source and you will have an explosion in no time.
 
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