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need a lot of snails
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:50 pm
by Arethet
I have about 12 GSP and I cant get enough snails to feed them. where I can buy a LOT of tiny snails in bulk? Thanks
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:28 am
by Pufferpunk
12 GSPs??? You must have a HUGE tank!
Try Ebay, Aquabid or go to Petsmart/Petco & clean them out of their pest snails.
Or breed them yourself:
library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/
There are also other crunchy foods you can feed them:
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:59 pm
by Arethet
I need 100's of them. too expensive on ebay or aquabid
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:05 pm
by Arethet
if I start my own tank for snails. how often do they breed? how much snails should i get to feed my 12 green spotted puffers how many babies a batch?
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:12 pm
by Pufferpunk
Please follow the links I gave you.
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:15 pm
by hadla
Also wondering what the tank size is... And would love to see pics!
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:42 pm
by Welch4
+ 1 to pics
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:49 pm
by GBobNorth
I breed petco's "pest" snails. I think they're tadpole snails, not sure. They do better in planted tanks, they're always breeding. You should have eggs in 10 days or less, but it'll take about two weeks before those are breeding. Once I tried keeping a few large ones as breeders (they don't get much bigger than 1cm), as they drop a lot more eggs but had a massive die off, it helps the gene pool if you give them all a chance to breed and only feed the larger ones. Overfeed the tank like a kid with his first goldfish and they'll be fine but cycle a lot.
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:11 am
by Welch4
For snail breedong tanks heavy feeding and lots of water changes will keep a house full of puffers happy.
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:29 pm
by hadla
Methinks the op forgot about posting here...
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:59 pm
by Welch4
hadla wrote:Methinks the op forgot about posting here...
Huh?
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:34 pm
by hadla
He/she hasn't been back in the past week
Re: need a lot of snails
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:53 am
by Welch4
Didnt get op ment original poster untill about 5 seconds after i made that last post