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Re: What species of tiny snails do you feed your Dwarf Puffer?
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:02 pm
by Myaj
Just leave it be. Even if the smaller snails get sucked up into the filter they just lay their eggs inside it and then crawl out when they feel like it.
If its a snail only tank though, set up purposely for breeding snails, go ahead with the sponge.. you'll find the snails LOVE to lay their egg sacs all over it. But if its your main tank, I'd just leave it, its not worth cutting down on the water flow.
Re: What species of tiny snails do you feed your Dwarf Puffer?
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:53 am
by Homer
Myaj wrote:That would make sense of course. Here we have liquid rock for water so there's plenty of calcium, snails have extremely hard shells.
That's also been a theory as to why some people have to trim their puffer's teeth more often than others.. more calcium in the water means stronger teeth/bones, harder to wear them down naturally.
I'm going to move this up to the freshwater puffer section since its about feeding puffers...
Hmmmm... that seems like an interesting theory, but while we're on the subject of snails, do you guys find your puffers leave the shell and just suck out the guys? or do they eat the snail shell and all? since most of the time i find when i feed my puffers snails, they seem to almost always leave just shell.
Re: What species of tiny snails do you feed your Dwarf Puffer?
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:04 am
by fishlady1958
i have sponges over my intakes .....my snails gather on the sponges.....seems to give them a place to lay them on i guess......it wouldn't hurt that's for sure......