Breeding snails?
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Breeding snails?
I have an empty 20 gallon I want to use for breeding snails. I want to breed snails to feed to the Fahaka Puffer I plan on getting. What type of snails would be best? and how do I breed them?
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Definately read the article. I personally found ramshorns bred and grew the fastest, plus they get to a larger size that would be more appropriate for a Fahaka. For smaller puffers, or while the Fahaka is young, pond snails work very well.
Most other types of snails take too long to grow or breed to make them a good choice.
Most other types of snails take too long to grow or breed to make them a good choice.
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By the time the medium the large puffers outgrow home-grown snails, they are ready for the chunkier grocery store foods. My big mbu puffer and two of the three Fahakas had a lower size limit on what they would eat in snails. Their tanks became common-pond breeders, all ~1/4 inch and under, after which they were harvested. No Ramshorns, they apparently need to be bigger to breed or were eaten smaller or both.
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Re: Breeding snails?
Yeah, I would use grown or almost grown ramshorns, and when they r young, I would use pond or bladder snails.
Hopefully this helps.
Hopefully this helps.
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Re: Breeding snails?
Look man, you seem like a nice guy but it gets pretty annoying when you bring back such old threads. It adds spam to the "Unread Posts" section, since the topics posted are almost never still relevant to the members who originally made them. I'm not trying to be mean or embarrass you in any way, and we all understand that you likely didn't know, so just going forward we would appreciate if you only added comments to threads that were more recent.freshpuffer1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:49 pm Yeah, I would use grown or almost grown ramshorns, and when they r young, I would use pond or bladder snails.
Hopefully this helps.
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Re: Breeding snails?
I\ve told him every single time he does it. It's getting really old & I have considered removing him from this forum.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: Breeding snails?
I would ask that you please don't, he's a puffer keeper who definitely seems to care a lot and wants to learn and help.Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:00 am I\ve told him every single time he does it. It's getting really old & I have considered removing him from this forum.
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Re: Breeding snails?
LOL, I said "considered".
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"