Best snail breeding method
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That's a great idea. Don't know how sensitive they are to water quality, tho, so they might not do too well. Snails can put up with ammonia and nitrite, but don't know if a clam would.chaberkern said:
The plant clippings may end up becoming food for the snails, especially if they die, so don't know if they'd be any help in cleaning the water.
Are they hard to keep???
I really don't know much about them, that's why I wanted to get some info from all the experts, before searching online and probably coming up with some wrong info......
I see them every now and then, so it wouldn't be hard to pick on up. I already have to keep good water quality for the snails shells, so thought maybe that would be the same with clams.....
anyone have any experience with them?
I really don't know much about them, that's why I wanted to get some info from all the experts, before searching online and probably coming up with some wrong info......
I see them every now and then, so it wouldn't be hard to pick on up. I already have to keep good water quality for the snails shells, so thought maybe that would be the same with clams.....
anyone have any experience with them?
I take my egg clutches (which with the snails you are breeding you won't have) and put them in a tupperware bowl to hatch and raise the babies. The babies LOVE dirty water with algae growing on the sides. The best way I've found to feed them and keep the water clean is to feed only algae wafers. After 2 days the wafer has started to dissolve. I empty all the container contents into a neat, wash out the food, left with just baby snails and crushed coral. It takes me all of a minute to change their funky water so that might help you out a little.
hey, tmt, how do you separate baby snails from waste? I'm having to resort to using a disposable pipette to stir up the waste and suck it up, otherwise I was losing baby snails left and right down the drain.
How do you remove the egg jellies? Just scrape them off the wall? I've just ended up having 2 tubs, one for adults to breed in and lay their eggs, and then when that gets too full of eggs and babies, remove the parents and let them do it again in the next tub.
Also, if I leave algae wafers in there for more than a night, I get mold (or something else fuzzy and slimy). You don't have this problem?
edit: i've got baby ramshorns that are about the size of a dot. i have a brine shrimp net, but I'm still paranoid that they'll fall through. aren't you dealing with mysteries, tmt? i'd assume those babies are larger?
How do you remove the egg jellies? Just scrape them off the wall? I've just ended up having 2 tubs, one for adults to breed in and lay their eggs, and then when that gets too full of eggs and babies, remove the parents and let them do it again in the next tub.
Also, if I leave algae wafers in there for more than a night, I get mold (or something else fuzzy and slimy). You don't have this problem?
edit: i've got baby ramshorns that are about the size of a dot. i have a brine shrimp net, but I'm still paranoid that they'll fall through. aren't you dealing with mysteries, tmt? i'd assume those babies are larger?
Lately I've been cleaning their little container with the same pour into net method...does work like a charm. I've been feeding them cucumbers and all sorts of stuff, so maybe just the pellets really is a better way to go as far as funky water is concerned...thanks!
But after someone mentioned...I'm really curious to see if one of those breeding traps would work in my main puffer tank. If I set it up on the side, put some moss in for eggs, and some of the bigger snails....they could breed, and the smaller baby snails could crawl out and instant puffer food! It could be a risk though the big ones could somehow crawl up and over into the big tank....or it could just drive the puffs nuts seeing all this snail action right before their eyes....
But after someone mentioned...I'm really curious to see if one of those breeding traps would work in my main puffer tank. If I set it up on the side, put some moss in for eggs, and some of the bigger snails....they could breed, and the smaller baby snails could crawl out and instant puffer food! It could be a risk though the big ones could somehow crawl up and over into the big tank....or it could just drive the puffs nuts seeing all this snail action right before their eyes....
I've considered doing this, too, in my dp tank. However, someone on dwarfpuffers.com said that their dp's were getting spoiled and because they knew they had an almost endless supply of snails, they refused to eat anything else. I only feed them snails about once a week, so it's more like a treat. I'm still trying to wean my dp's into taking frozen food. So far, they're eating dead blackworms (that I kill in vitamin C solution), so that's a step!
plah831 said:
Hmm interesting...I didn't even think they might get spoiled! I've been feeding them a mix of snails and bloodworms...but like the idea of the breeding trap..maybe if there was a way to fashion a moss screen or something around it, so that the puffs couldn't notice the bigger snails, and conceal the baby snail's escape a little better. I think it could be a really entertaining addition!
and nice with the blackworms....I've never used those yet, kind of hard to find near me..so I just stick to frozen bloodworms and snails. Hope its enough nutrients for puffs!
did yours just take to the frozen bloodworms? i tried glassworm because they're smaller than bloodworms, which I didn't think they would be able to get in theri mouths. They just spit them out! Finicky little buggers.
I want to try giving them frozen shrimp, too. I wish mine would eat more kinds of food. Another lady has dp's that will eat just about anything she offers them, with no special training. I'm so jealous!
I'm worried about nutrition for my dp's, too, because so far all they'll eat is live snails and blackworms. I sometimes add freshwater vitamin drops to the worms, but a moderator over at dwarfpuffers.com thought I was crazy!
I want to try giving them frozen shrimp, too. I wish mine would eat more kinds of food. Another lady has dp's that will eat just about anything she offers them, with no special training. I'm so jealous!
I'm worried about nutrition for my dp's, too, because so far all they'll eat is live snails and blackworms. I sometimes add freshwater vitamin drops to the worms, but a moderator over at dwarfpuffers.com thought I was crazy!
