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what is the best snail for dwarf puffers?
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Mine always preferred ramshorns, and they breed really fast.
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Pond snails and ramshorns...never trumpets.
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what size ramshorn?
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the size of their eye ñ_ñ a very small ones.
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maybe I should just do pond snails.
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I guess any, pond or rams, are ok, just be shire they are small ñ_ñ
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Yea just use whichever you can get your hands on, pond or rams
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You say be sure they are small?
Is this so the puffer doesn't eat the head and leaves the rest?
Can you not pre-crush the snails if they are larger to make sure the puff gets the lot?
+1 to pond snails.
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JerseyMike wrote:You say be sure they are small?
Is this so the puffer doesn't eat the head and leaves the rest?
Can you not pre-crush the snails if they are larger to make sure the puff gets the lot?
+1 to pond snails.
Yes, that can work, as long as you make sure that if there are any uneaten bits, you remove them.
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blackghostknife wrote:what size ramshorn?
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Puffers eat all the snail, when they cut all the head off, the suck the entire body and leave the shell alone, some of my puffers develop a true art of sucking snails out of the shell ñ_ñ

Im sure that:
80% of puffers eat the entire snail, 10% need pre crushing lessons, 10% don't eat snails or don't know they are food.
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RVS wrote:Puffers eat all the snail, when they cut all the head off, the suck the entire body and leave the shell alone, some of my puffers develop a true art of sucking snails out of the shell ñ_ñ

Im sure that:
80% of puffers eat the entire snail, 10% need pre crushing lessons, 10% don't eat snails or don't know they are food.
Yeah I just heard that if the snail is too big then they can't eat the whole snail, whether it is by sucking them out or not, that's why they just eat the head and the rest goes bad in the tank.
That's why I crush them sometimes if the 'eye' sized ones are hiding, haha.
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U could try your hands on breeding apple snails. Those large yellow type. When they just hatch, the size is just perfect. I think they would even be able to chew on the whole snail with shell. I feeding them to my figure 8. So once they grow bigger, I can give them to Birdy. But it seems to take forever for them to grow to a size big enough for him to be a decent meal though.. So he's still waiting..
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I had a pair of mystery snails breed. It took about three months for those darn things to grow to the size of a pencil eraser. I fed them to Ares...he can eat snails that are MUCH larger than that. Ramshorns grow faster.
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