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I have an empty 20 gallon I want to use for breeding snails. I want to breed snails to feed to the Fahaka Puffer I plan on getting. What type of snails would be best? and how do I breed them?

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depends on the size of the puffer really but with a fahaka I'd go marbled crayfish. A fahaka will chew through your snails faster than they (the snails) can mature and decimate you stock.

Go with market clams and muscles in the shell, shrimp raw, shell on.. etc.. Even a little raw talipia will help if he/ she will eat it.

Everything should be raw and frozen. Nothing precooked. If possible get some vitamin water and thaw their food in that. Keeping an active and viable food supply for a young fahaka in a grow out tank in your home is going to be difficult at best

J-P wrote:library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/

depends on the size of the puffer really but with a fahaka I'd go marbled crayfish. A fahaka will chew through your snails faster than they (the snails) can mature and decimate you stock.

Go with market clams and muscles in the shell, shrimp raw, shell on.. etc.. Even a little raw talipia will help if he/ she will eat it.

Everything should be raw and frozen. Nothing precooked. If possible get some vitamin water and thaw their food in that. Keeping an active and viable food supply for a young fahaka in a grow out tank in your home is going to be difficult at best

Going to go Monday to the bigger super market to buy my Fahaka some raw clams, muscles, and shrimp in the shell. I feel like my Fahaka is just too big for the small stuff now. Also http://www.drsfostersmith.com has some frozen clams and muscles on a half shell in their frozen fish food section now .