Snails

[dts_spawn]

How does Black Japanese Trapdoor Snail look like? and anyone here has any to spare?

[ruyle]

Ronnie

Bill, are you keeping these in your tanks and are you certain they don't eat eggs? In mine, there's nothing else but ramhorns.

I will be keeping Black Japanese Trapdoor Snails in some tanks this summer. Lilyblooms in Ohio has these in stock year round (water garden supply place). They could be kept year round in SG watergardens, too, for backup supply. You need a sandy substrate to keep these (I had a bunch of these when I lived in Maine) as they burrow about an inch in the substrate when they are about to calve(?) And nope, don't eat eggs like MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snail) and are great on most algae except blue-green algae. Someone in your neighborhood should be stocking these. HTH

Bill Ruyle
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[MrTree]

How about wild betta fries?

You mean trading your snails for betta fry or your betta fry for killies?

yeah, not all my spawn, but wild betta fries like falx, edithae, pulchra, pankanlanbun...or parosphromenus sp "nangah tayap" fry.

let's talk in private if you are interseted, but i am definitely interested in yours.

[ruyle]

How does Black Japanese Trapdoor Snail look like? and anyone here has any to spare?

Hi, check out www.lilyblooms.com and go to products and click on
"fertilizers and pond snails." They have a pic of the snail-- I've noted they have raised their prices since last I bought them, but are well worth the money. They don't like sustained temps above 80F, however, but might like being in a tank with a de Bruyn filter that raises the oxygen content of the water. The male has a shorter, curved right antenna (horn) to delineate it from the female. Of course a pair in the tank would be ideal and will offer 6-10 babies per year, maybe more. I'm going by what mine did for me when I lived in Maine, USA. HTH

Bill Ruyle
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