Help with breeding a variety of puffer food

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bertie 83
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Re: Help with breeding a variety of puffer food

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Cal. Visit your Lfs and offer to remove pest snails for them, then once you have a bag full put a couple of quid in their Xmas fund and they will welcome you back anytime. Keep them in a bucket till you are ready to feed
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Re: Help with breeding a variety of puffer food

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bertie 83 wrote:Snails poop lots lol
No kidding, I use a fluval edge for ramhorns and I didnt put gravel in the tank, oh my, how easy they cover the bottom with poop. Before I did have gravel so I didnt notice it :lol:.
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bertie 83
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Yea it's like they poop their body weight daily
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Re: Help with breeding a variety of puffer food

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JRC3 wrote:Snail breeding for me has been a pain. I've tried dedicated 10 and 15g tanks and once snails get established they produce no more. I've started to use 5g buckets starting with a handful of mature snails and after a week or so of egg laying, I remove the adults and let the eggs hatch and grow...Rotating between two 5g buckets.
Do you have anything in the buckets as far as filter, heater, etc.?

I have a 5 gallon set up with a filter, gravel, few fake plants, and just picked up a heater for it today. I was originally going to use it for snail but am not thinking I will use it for the shrimp now. I was talking to my mom about all I was doing and she happened to mention having a small tank there (like 1-3 gallons, not sure yet) that I can have. So I'm leaning towards using that for snails.

And what kind of snails are you breeding?
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