Can Malaysian trumpet snails live in unheated aquariums?

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Just wondering what tanks I can move the young snails to when they really start breeding; and yes, I want them to breed, even though they can do their thing individually, I want baby snails but I know they will need to be move out of the tank the parents are living in, so do they need heater or can they thrive in unheated tanks too?
 
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You don't need to separate the babies from the adults. Also, I've had a 5 gallon bucket outside for months and they lived in that s they can survive between 40-90 degree weather in my experience.
 
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Well the snails can survive up to 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit so i suggest looking at what temperture your home is and seeing if its in between 70 to 80 degrees hope i helped.
 
My unheated tanks usually stay around 65 -72 degrees and I know they don’t have to be separated but I would like to move the baby my other tanks instead of buying snails. Right now I keep four different species, three breed easily and one, zebra nerites, breed in brackish water so I obviously wouldn’t get little snails from them because my tanks are freshwater! The other three being the Malaysian trumpet snails, golden mystery snails and leopard ramshorn snails (the last two I know can live in cooler water, but I’m not sure Malaysian trumpet snails can( have only seen them in tropical fish tanks)
 
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MatteoTheEnder22 said:
Well then i recommend putting a heater for a constant 76 degrees so they can grow faster and they don't freeze to death.
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1) The question was can they live in a unheated tank. ( simple answer would be no!)
2) My tanks that don’t have heaters are that way because the fish that are in them like cooler temperatures. (So I am not going to make them uncomfortable for the snails comfort)
I just won’t put Malaysian trumpet snails in those tanks, I will just keep them confined to the tropical tanks.
 
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