How do snails reproduce and what do they eat?

Question

Snails began appearing in my fish tank, apparently coming from the gravel. Now they seem to reproduce themselves. I am not feeding them anything but they continue to live and multiply. I wonder how they sustain their existence. And what's their life span on the average?

Answer 1

Snails are hermaphrodite which means they both male and female at the same time. If two snails mate them both become pregnant. they both go off and lay their eggs in the gravel or stuck to the plants in your tank. These are in the form of a lump of jelly. the young snails hatch after a few days and then start to breed very quickly. You may have brought snail eggs in to the tank with plants or if you have used unwashed gravel that may have had the eggs on it. Snails can live for a few years if the tank is suitable for them.

Answer 2

How Do Snails Reproduce

Answer 3

Most snails are bisexual (they have both sexes) Many leave small gelatin like clusters on any object including the glass. If you look closely, you can see the tiny eggs or snails if they have been there awhile. There are some snails that are not bisexual and need a mate to reproduce. One of these is the Gold Inca snail which gets quite large about 1.5 inches. They lay eggs above the water line in clusters and have seen them do just that. They are scavengers and eat leftover food, algae, or anything that dies in the tank. If you get a pair of Clown Loaches, they will do away with them in no time. Buy more than one as they like company. I have three of them in my 90 Gal. tank. Two of them I bought about 10 yrs, ago. At that time I did have a small snail population which disappeared very quickly. At the time I bought them they were about 1.5 inches long. Now after 10 yrs. they are about 8 inches long. They didn't get that big by eating snails, but by age and eating shrimp pellets which are loaded with protein. I do bring snails in from my outdoor ponds during the summer as a treat. They demolish a snail so fast they never know what hit them. I have other fish in that age range, but my oldest is a 12in.plecostomus about 20 yrs,old.

Answer 4

How Do Snails Mate

Answer 5

I personally have a Dojo Loach in my tank to keep the snail population naturally in check. The snail spoor came into my tank on some live plants I brought in. I believe they are asexual and release eggs. They survive on microbiological growth and algae in the environment in the tank. Once I can see the snail it is too big for the Loach to really be interested in, but introduing a loach into an aquarium with snails will effectively stop the reproduction cycle. No new ones to replace the old ones

Answer 6

Snails reproduce asexually. They live on algea and food particles in your tank. They will over run your tank and deplete your oxygen for your fish if you are not careful. Puffer fish love to eat them, but if you have cummunity fish you can't add any puffer's. I would suggest getting coppersafe and adding that until they are gone. Otherwise you are going to have a problem, and will eventually have to take down your tank and start over. As for how long they live........they will live forever!!!!! (they will never go away:they will keep reproducing)

Answer 7

Same problem I had. I had snails and frogs and more and more keep coming. Even though I had one snail. Maybe they reproduce by themselves. And snails eat stuff from the fish tank and I never feed mine and they lived until my frogs died a year later. (Why did my frog kill himself)

Answer 8

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Answer 9

i asked the same question in secondary school, and the angry teacher shouted at me saying:"the same way you do it!"...so to this day, i still don't know...