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Well I bought my first 15 snails back on 7/31 and here are some pics from exactly one month later.






I had a little down time in breeding because I had to slowly feed my F8 the adult snails, but I picked up 40 huge adults a week or so ago and have replenished my eggs.

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man I havent gotten a snail yet to get near that big.

Here's mine. They came from a planted 10 gallon community tank I took down.



5.5 gallon, AquaTech 5-15 HOB filter, heater, bare bottom for easy cleaning and a 10 watt CFL bulb on for 8 hrs a day for plants. I feed daily and do 50% water changes and vacuums every other day.

I see a couple of big ramshorns and a bunch of baby pond snails

I like that you have decor in the tank..it is a PITA to clean..but I think it makes them happier for some reason..

man I cant for the life of me get them to grow that big, they get fish flakes and algea wafers i do water changes but they seem to die before they get near big enough to feed them to my puffer

jmiller, looks great. I have just as much fun growing the feeder snails as I do keeping any of my fish. I've been slowly removing a little gravel in my tank so it's easier to clean and I may eventually go bare bottom too. Though right now it is only about 3/8" thick and is easy enough to give it a stir without covering everybody up. Btw, I have my filter intake covered with an AQ50 sponge and a media bag slipped over that to keep the snails out of my filter. This also gives my filter more media to act as a bigger filter. Also, great job on taking your time and setting things up right. I love how the 37g is coming along and you have me really considering replacing my 29g with one as I could use my existing stand, canopy, and equipment with it.


xrayjeeper, I don't know about jmiller, but all of my large ramshorns are what I used to start my tank, the offspring are just now getting a hair bigger than my F8s eye but he has no problem with them.

Good luck

purplecandle wrote:I see a couple of big ramshorns and a bunch of baby pond snails

I like that you have decor in the tank..it is a PITA to clean..but I think it makes them happier for some reason..

They should all be ramshorns. The other black specs are black gravel I thought were snails during the separating. Not an easy task telling the difference between brown snails and black gravel.

I have since cleaned them out and here is how it stands now:



I removed that big rock because it was a pain to clean around. Now all I do is remove each rock and put it in the clean out bucket. After water is syphoned out I swish the plants around to knock off any big pieces and put back in the tank. Makes cleaning much easier that way. I spend less than 10 minutes from start to finish now.




To give you an idea of scale that white one in the front is just a tiny bit smaller than a dime.

not one of mine has every gotten anything near that big

Maybe not feeding enough? I feed them a lot.

Ill try that, im just afraid of over feeding and causing problems in the tank

try feeding vegetables too instead of just wafers and flakes. I use flakes, shrimp pellets and vegetables. I scrape the seeds out of them first thou. PS ime the pond snails will over dominate the ramshorns so id try to stick to one type of snails. I prefer the rammys for there harder shells

xrayjeeper83 wrote:Ill try that, im just afraid of over feeding and causing problems in the tank

That's why I water change every other day.

JRC3, what is the pH of that tank? Those shells look alittle, scraggly. Maybe put a limestone rock or bone for them.


I just use my 29 gallon shrimp tank for snails, as I see they've found there way in anyway...

Lil' Swimz$ wrote:JRC3, what is the pH of that tank? Those shells look alittle, scraggly. Maybe put a limestone rock or bone for them.


I just use my 29 gallon shrimp tank for snails, as I see they've found there way in anyway...

if they are puffer food does it really matter?
You can do a snail jello to get the shells up to par, but really.. what's the point? unless you have puffers that need harder shells....

"snail jello"??? Do tell!