You can keep them in a small container, like a water bottle, though the tank would be better. Frequent water changes are important in a small unfiltered container, though snails are far more tolerant than fish. Make sure you get out uneaten food and poop before they mold. Turkey basters are good for cleaning and changing that water in small containers. A wide container would be better than a tall skinny one, for gas exchange, and if you can put an airstone in it, so much the better. Something like a margarine tub, Cool Whip tub, or Tupperware container would be fine.
*I'm a snail MOMMY* PICS! HELP NEEDED!
- Thread starter Becca3711
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Very cute pics of the snails that blue one is wow u should enter a pic like that in potm. anyways , we have tons of mytery snails and egg are like bright pink , cant miss em 
and the babies dont look like that though 
sowwy. look like pond snails .
and the babies dont look like that though sowwy. look like pond snails .
pond snails... IMO they are more trouble than they're worth. they constantly reproduce and clog up filters.
we have them in our fish system at work and gave me a head ache when they clogged up our loc-lines and the return lines got clogged with dead snail shells. it's almost impossible to get rid of them...
mystery snails lay big egg sacks above the water line. you definately would have noticed that...
we have them in our fish system at work and gave me a head ache when they clogged up our loc-lines and the return lines got clogged with dead snail shells. it's almost impossible to get rid of them...
mystery snails lay big egg sacks above the water line. you definately would have noticed that...
I have a Penguin biowheel HOB filter, and have both pond and Malaysian trumpet snails in my tank. I've never had a problem with them vs. the filter. Maybe different filter types are more susceptible, especially if there are long water lines. I've found that as long as you don't overfeed, they don't overpopulate, and it's pretty easy to thin the herd with a piece of zucchini. But yes, they would be nearly impossible to get rid of completely if I didn't want them! In the gravel, in the plants, argh!
I had to have one
I went to the lfs to pick up some female convicts and ended up getting a black mystery snail he is still small and not as cool as yours but here he is.
Bad news though when I got home my oscar was on the floor dead he was my favorite he would let me pet his head and would always come to see what i was doing he would even eat out of my hand :cry:
I went to the lfs to pick up some female convicts and ended up getting a black mystery snail he is still small and not as cool as yours but here he is.
Bad news though when I got home my oscar was on the floor dead he was my favorite he would let me pet his head and would always come to see what i was doing he would even eat out of my hand :cry:
yeah i say the bettas eating the babys but those do look like baby i breed those feeder snails for my puffer but i'v never had a mystery snail before i stopped doing the vac in there an just water changes
