Trumpet Snails as GSP food

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Trumpet Snails as GSP food

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I heard somewhere that they are to hard for GSP's teeth, is this true. I know where I can get some is why.
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I feed them but I crush them with pliers first.
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Their shells are extremely hard & difficult to crush, so very possible can chip a puffer's teeth.
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Their shells are extremely hard & difficult to crush, so very possibly can chip a puffer's teeth.
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so I should probably stick to pond snails then.
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Yeah.
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I'd have to side with the rest on this... They are very hard. My Ceylon loves them, but his beak in incredibly strong. He can bite clam shells into bits... :shock:
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Common pond and common ramshorn snails are too easy to culture for me to consider ever risking a puffer's incisors to any MTS. That is another NIMFT (not in my fish tanks).
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Ok.
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