Anyone have any tips on breeding ramshorn sanails?

[Miller535]

If anyone has any tips on breeding ramshorn snails it would be greatly appreciated

[J-P]

food? various veggies.. and algae chips.

add 1 or 2 fish into the tank (a guppy or molly). They do better than in a snail only tank.

[LilGreenPuffer]

There's an article in the Puffer Library.

Higher temps and good water quality will make them breed faster.

[TSI431]

I just got rid of mine, because my puffers refuse to eat them.

You only need a few snails to start, I had 20, but that many it's not needed. I had no gravel in the tank, and only a sponge filter and heater set to 75. After about 2 weeks I had dozens of egg sacs and a month later hundreds of useless snails. I put about a cup of crushed coral in a mesh sack in the tank and fed them algae wafers. I never even turned the light on in the tank.

I had to do weekly water changes because the water would smell really bad from no water movement. Since I had mine in a 10 gallon tank, I did 50% water change.

That is all.

[pufferpuggirl]

I have to agree with J-P because I have a snail-only tank and they don't seem to proliferate as quickly as the snails in my crab/shrimp tank. So I'm going to add some guppy fry to my snail tank and see if that improves the situation.
But I would advise using a small filter to keep the water clean and clear, and of course, to heat the tank. The ramshorn will do the rest.

[Ohyouknow]

TSI, you should have mailed me some I'd have paid you for them