Hi all,
Just saw these 2 buggers and they look cute, brought them without thinking twice.
Questions :
(1) Will they eat my plants ?
(2) they deposit some black droplets of stuff while in the containment box, hope those are not eggs.
(3) Are they pests and multiply fast ???
(4) What's their common names?
Thank you
Jake
Last edited by r4211z; 22nd Jun 2008 at 17:19.
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4) They are apple snails
3) Pests? If so, why would they be on sale?Hmm... But some people will see them as pests... But they most probably will not breed much in local tanks... They die on me very fast...
2) The black stuff are their poo...
1) Yes, they eat plants, apparently... The soft leaves and new leaves will be eaten... But as mentioned, these fellows are kind of sensitive and IME, die off easily...
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they will breed real fast if the environment is good. Caution. Once they start breeding, you might have problem controlling their population from your tank, especially for a planted tank. It's Snail Infestation. Then you need to introduce Mr. Puffer.
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Actually, I would say, if you can get the apples to breed, then jolly well, good and congratulations!...Because these fellows have market value...
From what I had read, apples do not breed as fast as the ramshorn and pouch snails...
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Hope my these pair are either both male or both female.
So they can't breed.....ahahhaha
If they eat grass, then i guess they have to stay in the containment unit until i see some alage for them to feed.
Any specific kind of plant they prefer? they touch my mini pelia and tiger lotus and out they go of the tank.
Also known as golden snail. They lay hard-shelled eggs out of water, white & turn pinkish later when almost ready to hatch. So to speak, your snails can climb out of the tank, hehe.
i've let them out already, if i see any plants being eaten, OUT They go !
So far they are just exploring the tank, looking for alage i suppose.
One of them is hovering near the jave ferns roots!!!
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If you don't want them, either return them to the LFS or ask if any fellow hobbyist wants them. Please do NOT release them in the local waterways.
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Don't worry,I'll either pass them on friends or return to the LFS.I'm also against the idea of releasing into the wild.
So far so good, they are sticking to whatsoever little agale I have on the java ferns and drift woods
Never create what you can't control
Apple snails aren't hermaphroditic, so you need a pair of different sexed apple snails to reproduce and only the female can lay eggs.
Most snails (incl. ramshorn) on the other hand are hermaphroditic, so any two can reproduce and lay eggs.
Also, not all apple snails will devour your plants. Some, like one that I used to have, prefer dead or rotting plants.
More on apple snails here.
Yup. you need both male and female snail to do the job as they are gonochoristic, as oppose to hermaphroditic.
Last edited by |squee|; 16th May 2006 at 18:26.
just dun buy ramshorn snails...
it will become a disaster!
Btw, how do they look like?Originally Posted by mdm
just dun buy ramshorn snails...
it will become a disaster!
I have seen one with 2 horns on the back of the shell, is that the one ?
Jake
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Ramshorn snails are the following. They do not have horns, just that their shell looks like that of a Ram's horn.
They're harmless but breed like rabbits
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That is the red version. Was on sale for a dollar a snail... The normal ramshorns are brownish grey in colour. They look magnificent when adult, I must say... Quite harmless except that, as mentioned may times, they breed like rabbits, or rats, or hamsters, or... You get my point...
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Actually, the breeding can be controlled in a way... Control feeding...
Also, snails seems to have a breeding cycle.. there will be a boom and then a doom once the amount of extra food is not able to support the excess population... Then there is the equilibrium already...
So food is a good control in my opinion...
Experiment with apple snails.
Throw in a couple of ramshorn snails and watch them being devoured alive in slow mo.
Err...Who eat who? just curious.
the apple snail eats the ramshorn...slowly
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