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I thought it will attack the large MTS, but after checking it out, it decide to pass it by. See pics below for a sequence of it. I am guessing that it is because its probe thingy is not long enough to reach down when the MTS shrinks back into its shell. Anyone noticed similar behavior?
ck
My 3 killer snails have eaten all the large ramshorn snails in my 2 feet tank and i had 20 over of them, it also obliterate my population of pouch snails. My experience is that larger snails are targetted for preferrence. I noticed that they don't like snails with trapdoors as much, and they really like nerites, they would eat hikari wafer sometimes which i feed to the shrimpy. I wish they would breed, they are cool and everyone at the office love them.
Never create what you can't control
No idea, don't seem to find any relevant scientific studies on these snails.Originally Posted by CK Yeo
Just for interest, in apple snails, the penial complex of the male can be seen by looking inside the mantle cavity. Sometimes it is folded outwards and is visible.
http://www.applesnail.net/ -> Anatomy -> Reproduction
Surely if A. helena are gonochoristic, the male has something similar, so perhaps it's worth looking out for?
Jinxed fishy photographer
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In LFS conditions, I don't think it will be too easy... so the best is still to get a small group? Anyway, there is no guarantee that they won't breed in your tank even if you just get one since they might be inseminated before capture? These things are wild aren't they?
ck
it is confirm the helena DOES BREED in the tank. i use to have 3 in my tank and when my ramhorns number is reduced significantly, i returned 2 to the LFS. 1 mth later i caught 2 very small helena running around in the tank. am still looking out to see if there are anymore.
Never create what you can't control
Not sure why the emphasis, but I don't think anyone is disputing that it does not breed in aquaria.
I have the same experience with helena against the MTS. Got a helena in hope that it will do something to the explosion of MTS in one of my tanks. But seems like the helena do not touch the MTS, big or small at all.
Eugene (^_^)
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Anentome Helena does breed in tanks. I bought 5 of them and placed them into 2 tanks and I now have more than 20 of them in the two tanks.
It is really enjoyable to look at the tiny ones, they are simply too adorable.
Mine are breeding well in a 2ft cherry shrimp tank. I do not notice them attacking the shrimplets. They do eat Malayan Trumpet Snails, although not as prolific as puffer fish.
Last edited by Puffer; 16th Jul 2009 at 20:54.
Rob
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Interesting question. Anyone with both in the same tank to answer this?
May i know how long will these snails breed? I got 2 of these snails in my tank and no sign of them breeding
Does anyone keep these snails with dwarf puffer? Would like to know if DP will attack them...
Hi everyone,
I had a contamination of those pesky little snails that proliferate explosively and short after, while doing research how to kill the invaders but not the inhabitant Malaysian trumpet snails, a killer snail showed up. (On a different note - I am not sure I like those any more, my plants are really suffering and most new stuff brought in is considered salad).
Considering them pests was wrong, although they do breed happily. Mature ones are easy to spot and I take out between 5-10 per month. The problem with the other snails is gone. However, I assume that due to their way of preying (kill off the prey with poison) they may have eliminated the MTs as well. At least they are not moving any more.
They are pretty though and if I can establish a stable ecosystem sustaining them, that'd be fine. Fast and pretty, they are probably more interesting than the MTs, while not getting quite that large. Oh well, can't have everything.
Will try feeding a few renegades with some frozen shrimp. If they do better than on salad, they can stay.
Comments welcome. Tx forum so far! Phenomenal pics, by the way!
A bit lost. You dont like the assasin snails anymore because they also eat your plants as salads?
I thought they are carni.
Anyone had any idea if they will attack indostomus?
These are quite settled on the ground and quite slow as well. Worried.
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Very nice indostomus. Primary of seed shrimps and such in your aquarium? Always tempted to some
Yea bro. Infested due to overfeeding shrimp.
I think i have all kind of bugs in my ahrimp tank, worms, pods, hydras, now pond snails hahaha.
Not very confident on blur blur animals vs assasins snails scared buy wrongly. Bad exp with puffers
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I recall reading in another thread that you have dwarf corydoras that are doing a good job at keeping unwanted pests at bay. Does't work anymore?
Curious. So does otto eat up all those worm as well?
Thanks in advance!
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