A Question About Breeding Snails?

Question

What are the snail's prefered breeding conditions?

Answer 1

I am going to assume you mean mystery snails? Lots of food is the main priority, if they are not well fed, they will not breed. They like veggies and any food you feed your fish. You need to have a good cover on the tank because they will crawl out onto the floor and die looking for a place to lay their eggs.

Mystery snails lay their eggs (a pinkish mass) above the water line so you cannot fill up the tank to the top frame with water. Leave about 2-3" between the top of the lid and the water line. The lid will also keep the humidity high. You need this humidity to keep the eggs moist, if they dry out, they will not hatch. High water temp (80-82 degrees) is necessary to keep the humidity up also.

Any other snail, just feed well and they will get busy on their own. If you have Maylasian trumpet snails (MTS), they are livebearers, you will suddenly realize you have hundreds in the tank. They burrow down in the sand or gravel and you don't see them until there are too many. Ramshorn and pond snails lay eggs underwater attached to anything. You will see small masses of jelly with little white specks in it. Those are the babies. They will get out of hand quickly also.

Mystery snails are easy to control, if you have too many, just remove the egg mass and discard it before they hatch.

Answer 2

Snails will reproduce faster than you may think. Just get 2 or 3 and chances are you will have a male and female and more snails than you would really care to have.

Answer 3

snails are hermaphrodites so sexing them is a breeze,just make sure all your conditions are optimal.I mean if they are land snails damp without being sogging or in a fish tank water conditions are ok.Mystery snails in a fish tank might need a partial water change to stimulate them though good luck

Answer 4

i breed snails for my loaches any snails would be good inspite of the undeniable fact that it relies upon on your puffer and what he prefers you snails would be positive consisting of your guppies and could breed without difficulty i come across ramshorns are good as they're uncomplicated for the fish to get entry to and whilst the eggs hatch there could be 1000's of them additionally very low-priced to acquire yet another it particularly is nice is Malaysian trumpet snails those are stay bearers very very comparable to guppies they too breed without difficulty and are certainly quite good for aquarium substrate yet those could be harder for you puffer to get right into a they have a trapdoor on their shell in spite of the reality that when preparation i'm beneficial the puffer would have a manner of cracking them open

Answer 5

not meaning to be rude but... Why would you want to breed snails. i dont think that they care were they want to be bred

Answer 6

Just any normal tank. They breed faster than rabbits whether you want them to or not. We had to put a crayfish in the tank with them just to trim down their population.

Answer 7

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