Mystery snails

[santoury]

Anyone else keeping these?

I got one, then a few more, and now all of a sudden I have about 2 dozen of them. Have any of you found them as addicting as I have?
I have ivory, regular, gold, and blue ones. I find them extremely entertaining - always all over the tank, and they even seem to play - climbing, then dropping down, over and over again (occassionally, not ongoing) It's just awesome watching them interact with each other.

Is breeding easy? These guys are shooter-marble sized. They do eat a lot! Fish food and pellets, dead feeders, all are eaten with gusto. (Crazy watching a huge cluster of snails converging)

I don't do anything about adding calcium to their water - Should I? They seem fine after about 4 months, though. I have not had one casualty. How big do they get? Rate of growth?

Thanks in advance

 

[toehead11183]

MYSTERY SNAILS= Pomacea bridgesii.

to grow them big and fast:
temp 80-82
feed them algae disks, frozen green peas, cucumber, and boiled carrots.
for nice shiney shells: add calcium to the tank(crushed coral) you can put it in a bag and add it to the filter. keep pH above7.2 to avoid shell erosion.
to breed do as said above and leave a 1.5-2" gap above the water line. they lay eggs out of the water.

for more info: www.applesnail.net


this one is 1.5 year old. pomacea canaliculata
below is my 30g bridgesii breeder tank. i had 400 pink, purple, blue, white, gold and natural in one month

they are a blast to keep.

 

[suepahfly]

Nice pictures!

 

[gomezladdams]

Ive been keeping the briggs.Breeding for really nice purple color,but they throw alot of blue and Ivory,with the occasional jade.Cool pets mine really like green beans and collards

 

[derk dastardlee]

that's a hella huge apple, i was breeding them for a while, my largest were golf ball sized. make sure you have a good lid, i found a female across my kitchen counter laying eggs once, there sneaky. although i did have a problem w/ the eggs getting bothered by other snails, suggestions on that?

 

[toehead11183]

i drop the water level about 2 iches so there is plenty of room for laying eggs and it also discourages runaways