So say I WANTED to breed pond snails...

[FishyMamma]

Lol, that is funny. Would make a great YouTube clip.


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[TheresaM]

Wow, this is funny because I was just going to post this same question. I have pest snails in at least two of my tanks and I hate to see them go to waste. Did you decide what you're going to do as far as the snails?

 

[FishyMamma]

I think once I get that tank, which won't be for a while, I'll try the pond snail colony in a large jar. It can go next to the algae rock colony.



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[NatureFish]

I just got some baby pond snails. Really cute! They look like they could be apple snails but they are a weird color.


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[FishyMamma]

Did you get them on purpose, and if you did - are you adding them to a main tank or keeping them on purpose?

I saw a couple tiny snails I assume are pond snails this morning on my tank's walls. I guess I didn't rinse the plants well enough. Maybe I'll learn the bleach ratio and start dipping them before planting. Thought I was careful.

Could you really have accidentally gotten Apple snails somehow?




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[FishyMamma]

Here are pics from Google of baby apple (top) and baby pond (bottom) snails...does either look like what you saw?







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[NatureFish]

I got them on purpose actually. They look exactly like the bottom one. Do you know what species that is?


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[FishyMamma]

No, I don't. I just googled, "baby pond snail" and the pic came up. The page it was on wasn't specific.


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[NatureFish]

Well at least we know its not an apple snail haha.


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[alexjdavis19]

So it's possible just to put snails in a jar for them to breed? Trying to figure out how to do this without them living in my tank


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[evil Nick]

literally stick them in a jar, add some java moss. Change half the water or so every few days or so, add air stone if you want.

I borrowed a 20 long from a buddy to work on some stuff. I took a few gallons from my main tank and put it in the 20. I did what I needed to do then let it sit for a while. I was going to use it as seed water fro the 55 Ive been working on.

Well long story short when I FINALLY went to empty the thing there was this beast moving around inside. Apparently a baby pond snail must have been sucked up in the water and transferred. It was near the size of a DIME when I pulled him out. He was so large I actually put him BACK in my main tank to re establish some sort of colony (for feeding my puffers and yoyo [RIP] )

Anyway these things are tanks and will survive a lot so long as there is food, air and clean water. The only thing I have found they are overly sensitive to is calcium loss. I literally lost my entire colony in my main tank. I noticed all their shells turning white and found out it was the PH balance I was using. That and pretty much all my fish were trained to eat them at that point.