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Old 05-15-2012, 08:49 PM   #1
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Okay so, I kind of want four mystery snails. Is that too much? I have one in a ten gallon right now, living with a betta, small glass cat fish, and african dwarf frog. I kind of want one of every color, or rather what they sold where I bought him.
He's blue, but I want ivory, black, and gold. They had well over four in the same tank where I bought them and they seemed pretty content, and the one I have now seems pretty healthy.
Is it safe to have 4 snails?
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Old 05-15-2012, 09:00 PM   #2
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yep...go ahead and get them..also get a cuttle bone...like the ones for birds...break off a chunk and put it in the tank so they can eat it and get some calcium..
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Old 05-15-2012, 09:21 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by lohachata View Post
yep...go ahead and get them..also get a cuttle bone...like the ones for birds...break off a chunk and put it in the tank so they can eat it and get some calcium..
Well right now I've been feeding them algae wafers. Or rather, the one snail.
Also, on that note, I read they eat vegetables. Would they eat nori(dried seaweed)? I have that in abundance...
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Old 05-15-2012, 09:41 PM   #4
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They should eat nori. Try. You may have to soak it or blanche it.
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Old 05-18-2012, 01:42 PM   #5
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Sure if you want a population of snails. Of course you can send me the snails that you don't want and I can feed them to my clown loaches. Snails are their specialty. But the snails have to be healthy, without disease.
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Old 05-18-2012, 02:07 PM   #6
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Yea, your gonna have an over population of snails, they are gonna breed and have hundreds of snails, and their baby snails are gonna have more baby snails, and their babies baby snails are gonna have more baby snails, then their babies babies babies snails are gonna have mooore babies, and theeen........ jk but you get the point.
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