BYE Byeerr um Mystery snails?

[daveedka]

I bought a half dozen "mystery snails" last week The idea was to add some visible snails to the cichlid tank and hope they could make it. My cichlids have trouble with the larger ramshorns so the mystery snails should be O.K. for a while.
I put them in my q-tank which is housing some plants, for two reasons. one normal quarantine, secondly I wanted to see if they really were mystery snails before I subjected them to the plants in my big tank. Now I'm looking for a local home for 6 apple snails. they seem to particularly enjoy Lace leaf Java Fern, but oddly enough they leave my delicate reds alone. I have a brother with a large tank and no plants, so they may be safe. I guess I'll have to try a different source for mysteries in the future. I am not suprised as I knew what the odds were, but was still hopeful. I'll have to re-evaluate the idea today. and decide how many apple snails my Brother wants.
dave

 

[racingjason]

I bought a half dozen "mystery snails" last week The idea was to add some visible snails to the cichlid tank and hope they could make it. My cichlids have trouble with the larger ramshorns so the mystery snails should be O.K. for a while.
I put them in my q-tank which is housing some plants, for two reasons. one normal quarantine, secondly I wanted to see if they really were mystery snails before I subjected them to the plants in my big tank. Now I'm looking for a local home for 6 apple snails. they seem to particularly enjoy Lace leaf Java Fern, but oddly enough they leave my delicate reds alone. I have a brother with a large tank and no plants, so they may be safe. I guess I'll have to try a different source for mysteries in the future. I am not suprised as I knew what the odds were, but was still hopeful. I'll have to re-evaluate the idea today. and decide how many apple snails my Brother wants.
dave

Mine were great until last week when they plowed through a whole red/green plant of unknown type. They refused cucumber and ate the plant!

 

[daveedka]

Yeah, one of the big cautions I hear everywhere is that Mystery snails won't eat plants, but no one really knows which ones are truly mystery snails. I hate to keep buying snails I may not want until I get the right ones, so I may just scrap the idea altogether. a lot will depend on when I have more tanks set-up. When I get my shrimp breeding tank going, it will only have J-fern and J-moss neither of which are in shartage around here. So I could house excess plant eating snails in there.
Dave

 

[daveedka]

Good news all the way around. I seperated the black mysteries from the gold's, and found that the black snails don't eat plants. So I kept them, and gave the 3 gold's to my brother who has a nice 40g for them to live in with no plants. The Blacks are now munching around in the cichlid tank quite hapily. none of my snail killers seem interested in them at all. :dance :dance
dave

 

[SnakeIce]

Yeah, one of the big cautions I hear everywhere is that Mystery snails won't eat plants, but no one really knows which ones are truly mystery snails.
Dave

That may be one reason they get called mystery snails.