The Puffer Forum

Hey Everyone!

This is my first post at this forum (as far as i can remember), and im going to use it for a question.

Ive had a fahaka for a few years now, and ive been buying snails (3-6$ each..) periodically to give to him.
Im a little tired of spending so much money for snails so i set up a planted tank to breed snails to save some money.
Im wondering (because i cant seend to find the info anywhere else) how long it takes for the baby snails to grow
to about the size of a cherry or so.

Has anyone else bred snails for puffer dinner?

By mystery snails I am assuming you mean apple snails. Here is a link I use for any information I need about apple snails. http://www.applesnail.net/content/care.php

that is a good resource

Welcome to the forum!!

You may also want to try your hand at marbled crayfish.

Mystery snapil and apple snails should be different critters.

Thanks JP.

Looks like around 2-5 months, hopefully closer to the two mark.
If it ends up taking forever for them to grow to a decent meal size then I will probably stick to buying a few here and there,

He gets fed krill, crayfish (store bought, and river caught), clams/muscles, pellets, a very rare feeder fish, blood worm, and everything else under the sun pretty much. So its not as if I need to breed any snails, just thought it may save me a few bucks and the time it takes me to go to the LFS.

RTR the the ones typically labeled as gold mystery snails that I find most commonly at LFS's are usually Pomacea Bridgesii which is why I suspected that he was probably dealing with apple snails. Perhaps I am wrong, though