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Snail Question
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:36 pm
by mdnitesky
Does it matter what type of snail is fed to GSPs other than not feeding them the malaysian ones? Arent ramshorn and pond snails fresh water, or doesnt it matter? Thanks
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:05 am
by lisalisa
Those snails are easy to breed, and great to feed to GSP's. Snails rarely live to hit the bottom of the tank, so being FW doesn't matter. Make sure to remove any that the puffs miss, though.
HTH
Read here too:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/puffer/food.html
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:22 am
by ChesapeakeSwellfish
Occasionally a puff will be looking away when you drop in the snail and the snail lying on the bottom of the tank attracts no attention. When this happens, I reach in with a x-large forceps and grab the snail and let it drop again. Mine now recognize the forceps as part of the large trained feeding machine.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:25 am
by perek
I have a gladiator system with my tanks, if the snail can foil the puffers for over an hour then he/she will retire to my 20G planted tank. Same with ghost shrimp. If the ghost shrimp can outsmart my puffers for a night, then they get to be retired.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:31 am
by Phaedrus
perek wrote:I have a gladiator system with my tanks, if the snail can foil the puffers for over an hour then he/she will retire to my 20G planted tank. Same with ghost shrimp. If the ghost shrimp can outsmart my puffers for a night, then they get to be retired.
:15: :40: priceless
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:02 pm
by ChesapeakeSwellfish
perek wrote:I have a gladiator system with my tanks, if the snail can foil the puffers for over an hour then he/she will retire to my 20G planted tank. Same with ghost shrimp. If the ghost shrimp can outsmart my puffers for a night, then they get to be retired.
omg - I have had grass shrimp in F8 and GSP tanks for 8 months (ok, just 1 left in each) - now i feel guilty.
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:12 pm
by The Fisherman
ehehehe, thats awsome Perek!