Dwarf puffer diet

[Berny]

Bro, are you able to share how we can breed these snails? Just 2 of them will do? How about the conditions of the water?


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That aside, pond snails are considered pest due to their amazing reproduction rate.

Like the Roman snail, pond snails also are hermaphrodites. Contrary to their terrestrial relative, pond snails have separate genital openings, so mating can only occur in one direction, not vice-versa. The characteristic egg batches of pond snails (see picture on the left) are stuck to water plants and stones.
In populations with a low number of individuals, for example after the occupation of a new water body, pond snails can also perform auto-fertilisation. But this can only serve to increase numbers. To mix genes, common sexual reproduction is necessary.

source: http://molluscs.at/gastropoda/index....r/lymnaea.html

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Amazing find, bro. Thanks for the information, I could save on the pond snails and perhaps enjoy breeding them. For me, it is pretty fun watching them grow.

[Urban Aquaria]

When i had a snail colony running a while back, i put them in a cheap 10 litre glass tank... just installed a mini hang-on filter and light, along with some used aquasoil substrate and wood/rocks pieces, then stuffed it full of excess plants from all the trimmings from other tanks. All the snails that i picked out of plants from LFS/farms during their quarantine i transferred into the snail tank.

I fed the snails small bits of shrimp food pellets and blanched vegetable scraps. Within 2-3 months, counted close to 100+ snails of different varieties inside.

I've found that the conditions for snails to thrive and breed is quite similar to shrimps (they are both aquatic invertebrates with shells anyways), so maybe can also just use a shrimp tank as double duty to breed snails too.

[felix_fx2]

Pouchsnails... nice at the start...

@UA, shrimps die much more easily haha.

[Urban Aquaria]

@UA, shrimps die much more easily haha.

True... will usually eventually end up with snail-only tank.

[Ingen]

Any update from TS or perhaps the puffers are in somewhere better now?

I have three puffers and I feed them snails (not that I'm breeding) from my 1ft cube, however, I find it quite cruel to watch. I understand it's nature and all, feeding snails and BBS are not much difference. It was fun to watch at first, but after a few times, it starts to feel cruel to see the innocent snails that were once happy in the 1ft cube tank suddenly attacked by puffers.

[killkyo]

I tried feeding snails to my green spotted puffers too but realized that they only eat the front part of the snail and left the dead snail alone after that. Any ideas why?

[mukyo]

they dont eat the shell right? thats a mess

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[kapitan]

I have one tank mildly infested with irritant snails.... when I see them I will pick it up with a tweezer, sqash it and put the remains into another tank and see the tetra swallow eveything up, including the crush/partly crush shell.... cruel