plah831 said:
LOL I knew we had a rams breeder on here but I just couldn't remember who it was to save my life
Thanks for stepping in 
Snail Eggs GALORE!!
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LOL I knew we had a rams breeder on here but I just couldn't remember who it was to save my life
Thanks for stepping in 
haha. I'm sure breeding snails as feeders versus to sell as pets is very different, though!
However, many of my snails are quite pretty and they're all quite robust (naturally hard water, no shell problems). In fact, there are a few empty shells, picked up from the LFS with the original set of parents, I left in there to see if they would erode. Nope, they're hard as rock after over a month! I can't even break their shells between my fingers if I tried! I guess I might be able to with the tiny snails, but I wouldn't want to do that since I'm working so hard for the small ones (feeding dwarf puffers).
However, many of my snails are quite pretty and they're all quite robust (naturally hard water, no shell problems). In fact, there are a few empty shells, picked up from the LFS with the original set of parents, I left in there to see if they would erode. Nope, they're hard as rock after over a month! I can't even break their shells between my fingers if I tried! I guess I might be able to with the tiny snails, but I wouldn't want to do that since I'm working so hard for the small ones (feeding dwarf puffers).
LOL Want to trade water? I have to fight tooth and nail to keep my pH, hardness, and alkalinity up! I had to change my substrate to all araganite sand in hopes to get everything up and kept up. Really, I probably have it a bit easier than you Tonight I had two clutches hatching pretty well so what I do to help things out a bit and keep the nasty gunk that comes out of the clutch out of my water is place the clutch and babies that haven't went into the water yet into a net and run water over it to dissolve the clutch and be left with only babies. 2 minutes of work and I would say I have approx 400 babies from just those two clutches. LOL With those tiny rams, I doubt it would be that easy
Anyways, sorry for hijacking this thread
Tonight I had two clutches hatching pretty well so what I do to help things out a bit and keep the nasty gunk that comes out of the clutch out of my water is place the clutch and babies that haven't went into the water yet into a net and run water over it to dissolve the clutch and be left with only babies. 2 minutes of work and I would say I have approx 400 babies from just those two clutches. LOL With those tiny rams, I doubt it would be that easy Anyways, sorry for hijacking this thread
HA! Maybe I could bottle it and sell it at LFS as "Snail Tonic" or "Snail-Growing Medium" and sell it for $5 a gallon!tmtpowers said:
yes, sorry for hijacking your thread.
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I had a fit over a hitch hiker snail too. Until I saw what it did to the algae in my tank. Now I'm a huge fan of them. Got bunches of them in every tank. The tanks have never looked better. lol My guppies seem to think the little newly hatched ones are tasty too.
Agreed! I can't understand people who try so hard to exterminate snails (even to the point of using chemicals, or just violently smashing them). They're really not offensive or harmful in any way.Chickieepooh2u said:
as a "test", I have a divided 10 gal with snails on one side, and a betta on the other (he kills any snails that are on his side). and the side with snails is sparkling clean, while the side with the betta has unsightly algae.
yeah, HH snails are the only algae eating creatures I have ever had that actually eat algae in great proportions.plah831 said:
There is one plant that has majority of the snail eggs, and plan on putting it in my vivarium where I have a lot of algae, it will be my first aquatic plant in there and there will be a lesser chance of anything eating the hatchlings. And there is plenty of algae for them to munch on, then I'll tranfer some to my 38 Gallon. Whatever is left over I'll divy out between friends then here on AC.
Well today I found the first evidence that the snails eggs clusters hatched and are werent eaten my anything in my vivarium. And yes they are definately Rams Horn snails. I dont have a picture cause I couldnt really focus in on something so small with my digital camera. I'm not sure howmany there might be but I know there is AT LEAST one.
