oh, just wanted to add NEVER feed Malaysian trumpet snails to puffers (or most fish). Their shells are extremely tough and can break a puffers' teeth, leading to a painful slow death
I know.. I was tired when I posted that.. i didn't mean it that way, sorry again. wish i could edit it....plah831 said:I know, honey. That's why common names are confusing. Scientific names eliminate all confusion. That's all I can tell ya Sorry for making you feel dumb, that wasn't my intention. I was just trying to put info out there for anyone who might read this, not to make you feel bad.
I know.... I was just apologizing for my rude postplah831 said:oh, I wasn't directing that at your post at all. I just remembered that since MTS were mentioned, maybe someone would try to feed them to their fishies. Again, just general info to anyone who might see this thread
Cool! I'm going to have to start me a little feeder aquarium this weekend.loaches r cool said:I have a snail tank for the puffers with comon pond snails but they didnt seem to reproduce nearly as fast enough as I'd like. I added a single ramshorn - I havent actually ID'd em but they are reddish brown with spots. Within a couple weeks of putting a lone snail in I saw dozens of little baby snails. After about a month these new ramshorn snails took over the tank. They get big real quick, much quicker than the pond snails did. Now I really have to look hard to find a single pond snail and sometimes I cant even find any. I havent done anything special for the snails, the tank is a 20G tank that has lots of plants and guppies and thats it (no filter, heater, air pump... no nothing other than light over it). I dont even change the water other than topping it off every other month or so. its my low tech / no maintenence feeder tank. I am not a snail expert and was going to research into how to better keep them until the ramshorn came along and no longer have a problem keeping a large stock of them.