Best feeder snails for assasin snails?

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

Im getting a 20g and i want to stock it with feeder snails and assasin snails. alot of different feeder snails. gonna be a plain tank with just snails and very few plants, some bigger rocks and driftwood.
what types are interesting, can get eatten and reproduce fast??
and maybe a small fish or two. what type yall suggest for that?
i only have exsperience with shrimp(and only a little with those)

 

[Ak-Kronic]

Trapdoor, mystery, ramshorn, spixi snails are all rather common i suppose. but i don't think you would want to use them as feeders.
mabe some from the Physidae family

 

[Lupin]

Choose these as your feeders for the assassins.
Bladder snail (Physas sp.)


Pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)


Ramshorns (Planorbis sp.)


Malaysian trumpet snail (Melania sp.)


I fed mine with the extra Pomacea canaliculata before along with the ones below. Bladder snails, sadly, are quite the most elusive and can outrun the assassins easily that the assassins give up halfway chasing them. Ramshorns and MTS are your better alternatives. Just overfeed a bit your snail tank and you will be able to balance the predatory-prey relationship.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

y thank you lupin.
now, were could I precure these?
not the bladder snails, but the other 3.(no point in having it if it cant be eatten)

 

[Noto]

Except for MTS you should be able to find those guys locally. Pull some submerged plants or wood from a local pond, lake, swamp, or backwater and you'll find plenty of physids, planorbids, lymnaeids, ancylids, viviparids, valvatulids, etc., etc.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

anybody else? maybe someone near by has some?

 

[Lupin]

y thank you lupin.
now, were could I precure these?
not the bladder snails, but the other 3.(no point in having it if it cant be eatten)

Contact Sounguru in AC. He has thousands of MTS. A lot of snailers in AC would be willing to give you their extra ramshorn snails and MTS.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

ok, thanks!! what about the pond snails?
or do they reproduce too slow?

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

just getting ideas ready. gonna get a 20g and doin snails. ill check in wit msjinkzd, and go from there when its up and running.

 

[Lupin]

ok, thanks!! what about the pond snails?
or do they reproduce too slow?

Bladders proliferate faster. My loner never proliferated as despite being hermaphrodites, they still needed the sperm exchange process to be able to breed and this one was alone by itself in a shop's goldfish tank. I have trouble finding pond snails more than bladders although others are lucky to breed them. Pond snails can reach 1.5-2 inches max.