Mystery Snail Care and Breeding: Your Friendly Neighborhood Algae Eater!
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
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In this video we discuss how to keep mystery snails alive. They can be a great peaceful addition to a community tank. Mystery snails do a great job of cleaning up algae and detritus. Mystery snails can also be a great addition to a planted tank.
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Water Hardness: • Fish Tank Water Hardne...
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Here are some videos on water parameters important to keeping snails alive!
How to manage pH: ruclips.net/video/d9N-JliqsJg/видео.html
Water Hardness Fully Explained: ruclips.net/video/xRYdtvakfv0/видео.html
Also how to get rid of them (good info for keeping them alive too): ruclips.net/video/2OGKjSH6fRw/видео.html
Prime Time Aquatics I just wanted to ask I have a yellow belly turtle she’s not that big but big enough to fit in a good portion of my hand and I was wondering if I where toget a apple snail would my turtle eat it? I don’t want to put the snail in danger🙏🏽😓
Prime Time Aquatics. Hello. I bought Hikari crab cuisine for my mystery snails not knowing that it has copper sulfate it’s the second to last ingredient. I have seen aquarium co op and some other people feed it to their snails because of the calcium. I was wondering your thoughts on it. I have been feeding omega one veggie pellets and veggie wafers. Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
My yellow snail in about 3 inches and my tank has black looking stuff on the tank side and plants and the water is so green and murky and I've taken my bete out and put in another tank because is so nasty. I change my filters and clean the tank but in a few days it's back green. Do you have an suggestions on what I should do? I would really love to my beta back in his 10 gallon tank with the snail.
@@amandagraham796 if you get this I would suggest you have a horrible Algea problem. Are you lighting your tank 24 hours a day? Are you overfeeding? Take a baseline reading for the tank water, then keep doing it for a week. Most Algea comes from over feeding or too much fertilizer and light. Your lights only need to be on for 4 to eight hours a day, that should keep your snails from reproduction and maybe cut way back on the food. Honestly, it is still a great temptation to fill their food pot every day and you can see what happens. Stay well young miss!
I added apple snail today.. It started digging up in the substrate.. It did that in 3 spots within first 10 minutes.. I moved it back to quarantine tank for now..
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Any reason they do that? How to get it to stop? It id ruining the aquascape by digs and uprooting plants..
The only reason I keep snails is because they're adorable in my opinion. Their little antennas(probably not what they're called) are my favorite.
Same! I have 7 of them. All different colors so I can tell them apart.
Snailed it
Ive heard snails help keep your tank clean
Lol 😂
They are called feelers! They have two sets, the ones you like are for their eyes and they have smaller pair just below the other that they feel and smell with!
I have a million snails and there all named Gary lol
Well, at least you didn't have to think about the names too much. : -)
So funny!We started with two for their cuteness and now well 100s and 100s later we decided a week ago that their names were Gary Gary Gary STEVE Gary Gary Gary on and on. Lol. I'VE BEEN COMPLETELY AMAZED ON WATCHING THE PROCESS THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED. I WATCH brEADING, I WATCH HATCHING, I HAVE WATCHED GROWTH, ALL THE ABOVE AND IT'S VERY COOL TO SEE.
I have one in his name is Gary
🤣🤣🤣🤣❤
Same I bought mine today and named him Gary then he died 🐌😔
my beta fish is so sweet and gentle, he loves to watch the snails move, and he follows them around a lot. He’s never picked at them and they both love each other’s company!
Just wait 😂
My betta only tolerates the two snails.fingers crossed
My female Betta loves her Mystery snail friend too. Occasionally she goes after "his" antennae and then realizes it's not a worm. They also hang out together!
My snail hangs around with my goldfish, they are adorable together.
My Betas seem sort of fascinated by the snails, so far i see no feeler nipping or aggression. Occasionally i see them sleeping together on the bottom of the tank. I take it they actually like each other.
So I love the snails cuz they do keep my tank clean I have had them for years but the craziest thing happened to
Me and i had to share.... so when I do water changes or tank changes I always check for snails and baby fish throughly and then toss the old water into my cactus garden. I have cacti from all over! I even had one shipped from japan! One of my favorite cacti wasn’t thriving anymore, it seemed to not ever be able to retain much water. This summer the temps reached over 100 a few times and I assumed it was just too hot and burnt out. So I decided to flake off all the dead parts and bring it indoors. You guys will never believe what I found!!! On the base of my cactus plant was a huge mystery snail (about 3 inches!) attached super tightly into the base it had been there so long that it had formed a perfect snail shaped cave right into the cactus! I took pictures it looks so crazy! An aquarium animal inside a cactus?! Life is amazing isn’t it always finds a way to survive. Don’t know why this gave me such joy
That is crazy!
Wow that is amazing, thanks for sharing!
Oh my! I wish I could see the picture🥺
Pretty cool
Alive?
Nice video on the Mystery Snail. Maybe people will give snails more respect now.
And for those who are interested...
How to keep Malaysian Trumpet Snails: Add live plants to your aquarium that are guaranteed to not have snails. Three months later, you have 30 of them. Three years later, you have 300. Three hundred years later, (and seven nuclear wars, 3 alien invasions and a direct meteor hit) your great great great great great great granddaughter will have 299 Malaysian Trumpet Snails.
I almost just spit my orange juice out. Hahahaha
Hahaha
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@@PrimeTimeAquatics 😂😂😂
My snail at a whole bunch of babies
While feeding my guppies earlier I noticed my snails at the surface making a funnel with their bodies, catching the flakes and eating them. It was so cute, like watching a rabbit eat lettuce. I didn't realize 🐌 had such a distinguishable head. That shell hides a lot of cuteness.
Mine do that too sometimes. : -)
I just saw one of mine do that.
I remember when I first noticed snails funnel their food off the top of the water I was like woah! Cool
OOOOOOHHHHHH that’s what mine is doing!
Sir, if you haven't done so already, could you do a quick video on the different types of freshwater snails ... at least the popular aquarium ones.
Mystery Snails
Malaysia Trumpet Snails
Assassin Snails
Rabbit Snails
Nerlite Snails
Apple Snails
... take your pick 😆😆
@Mercadien ramshorns are considered pests.
@@momoftwobunnies Not by everyone. I personally love rams.
@@bigsky445 Also Ramshorn and bladder.
@@bigsky445 Don't forget Japanese trap door snails! 😊
Aghhh!!! My mystery snails just gave birth!! ITS SO TINY!!!!
I know - the little snails are so cute!
Same! They are so tiny! I love baby mystery snails!
That's so cool ! Do they reproduce on their own ?
I love, love, LOVE mystery snails! I started with one and it was so cool to watch that I got another! I am now an accidental snail rancher with hundreds of snails! They are funny, fantastic, magical creatures!
For those of you with soft water, I have really soft water and I've found that it helps to add crushed coral and cuttlebones to the tank. Snails actually need to have calcium in the water column AND a calcium source to eat. I've found that cuttlebones are a great way to provide the dietary calcium.
If you had told me a year ago that I would become a huge mystery snail geek, I would not have believed it! Definitely consider adding these magical creatures to your tank!
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing how you deal with softer water. : -)
i really wanna breed mine but im afraid that they will continue to breed how do i fix that or is there no way to fix it?
@@cxmet3355 your snails will either breed or not, that part is out of your control. The parts that you can control are:
1. Keeping or discarding the egg clutch
2. The amount of food in the tank
3. The water level in the tank
Numbers 2 and 3 help to control whether or not the female snail feels comfortable laying her eggs. If there isn't enough food, she won't lay the eggs (if you want to encourage her to lay her eggs, a couple of days of light feeding followed by a couple of days of heavier feeding helps).
Likewise, if you keep the water level high, she will not be as likely to lay her eggs. If you want to encourage her to lay eggs, you can lower the water level in the tank so that it is about 3-4 inches below the rim of the tank.
The snails are going to do what they want to do, so if you find an egg clutch, you can either keep it or not. If you don't want to keep it, don't just throw it out or flush it! In my experience, a few of the babies will survive, and it's not a good idea to let them out into the world. If you find a clutch and you don't want to keep it, let it sit where it is for 2-3 days so that the clutch is nice and firm because it will be much easier to remove. Once you've removed the clutch, put it in a plastic baggie and put it in the freezer for at least a week, then you can put it in the garbage. I wouldn't recommend ever flushing the clutch. We want to be responsible snail parents! 😉 I suppose the other option for the frozen clutch would be to crush it up and feed it to the aquarium. The snails in the tank will eat it. It is up to you to decide what to do once the clutch is laid!
i had one in my 200 liter shrimp tank ate all my plants and grew to 3 inches
i dont have the heart to get rid of him so now i started a tank with no plants for him and feed him the stubs of my veg
I completely agree. I just love them.♥️🥰♥️
I have 4 female betas in a 20 gallon heavily planted. I added 6 ramshorns and 4 adult mystery snails. After 3 months they started dying, and many had thin shells. Feed them and add mineral balls. Now I have at least 100 super tiny ramshorns and the mystery snails laid eggs. In the past 6 months, I've never scraped any algae NONE to be seen. Feed 2 times a week, pleco pellets. And the tanks alive with color. ❤
Snails are a must in shrimp aquariums! Shrimp eat their poop & it has beneficial bacteria for their gut!
LOVE MYSTERY SNAILS!❤❤❤❤❤😁😁😁
It's a good mix!
I never thought I would love aquatic snails the way I do, but my mystery babies are all so precious to me. I cried when I saw our first little wee bebe. I love them; so fascinating!!
Yes they are!
my mystery snail zooms all over the tank and eats anything...even driftwood. i tried giving him boiled kale but he ignored it. he'll eat sinking pellets and detritus on the substrate. mystery snails are a lot of fun to watch--they definitely have personality!
Mine love sinking pellets too!
I really like watching my snails crawl around.
@@AirQuotes848 Same here! I've got several mystery snails! They are so peaceful to watch!
if i give him veg from the fridge he goes near it then move away till tank temp
When my brother moved in with me he took a liking to my aquarium. I told him he could get a Mystery Snail bc it wouldn't be a problem for my other fish haha. A month or two later and now "Swirly" is the biggest animal in my tank haha
Nicee
Maybe it's an Apple snail?
3 mystery snails... 4 mystery snails have appeared out of no where in my guppy fry tank. Something tells me they are in love with the tank. They are growing fast!!!
I had a few mystery snails hitch a ride in on some freshwater plants I bought. Sometimes I see my cherry shrimp following them around and cleaning their shells, it's very cute.
Also with food as well you can feed them more then just that. I feed mine UNSALTED green beans, blanched Zucchini, snello, blanched Carrots, and cucumbers.
I’ve been researching cause I want snails, just snails :) everyone treats them as such a second thought but I love them 💚💚💚
They are great little animals!
Make a snail tank!
Me too. All I want is snails. Lol
I got a mystery snail for fun and he is currently kept in a tub with 70 baby guppies. I don't pay much attentjkn to water parameters. The eater goes below 18 degrees Celsius and he is constantly active. He helps clean it which is really helpful. He is also grown bigger.
Ironically my mystery snail named Bean ONLY eats carnivore pellets and blood worms. He wont dare touch the algae.
Sounds like he's spoiled. haha : -)
Mine is quite picky too. Doesn't like the algae that grows in the tank and only likes one brand of wafers!
this was just like mine! still loved hi, either way lol
him*
I got an ivory looking snail in my cichlid tank and he gets along very well. Had him almost 2 months and hes fine
RIPGary
Planning on doing the same
I love snails, I have mystery and pest snails which has entered the tank through plant purchases, but i keep them all. The clusters are soothing to watch.
I'm binge watching, and so far I want ALL the fish you have talked about and now I need to breed mystery snails lol. love the channel!
lol
3 Mystery snails cleaned the white mold/algae off of a very large piece of mopani wood for me right before my eyes. It was awesome.
I've had golden mystery snails for about 3 months since getting them I've put down a foam mat near my tank so they don't shatter there shells on my hard wood floor when they decide to crawl out the tank past the lid
Still my favorite of all time aquatic creatures. They just bring me an unexplainable peace…
My snails be lookin like a snaccc
I enjoy watching your channel as fellow fish/plant keeper/grower. Most fishkeepers/planted tank people that have had tanks for several years and waged the war on algae appreciate videos like this one. Snails are great friends/workers and I especially like the mystery snails.
That beard isn't fooling me. I know it's you Bill Burr.
Dead 😂
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Okay so I'm not the only one 😂I thought the same thing 😂😂
I cant unhear this now
We just got four for our ten gallon betta tank and I know nothing about tanks but I think they’re doing awesome! We love them
And our betta likes them too. He kind of inspected them but he’s so peaceful he just leaves them alone.
That combo has worked fine for us too. :-)
I'm planning to breed mystery snail. Today I already bought a 40 gallons tank.
I'm continuing doing research.
how is it going? i’m trying to start up a similar project
Also if you have a fungus growing on your driftwood - they LOVE eating this and make quick work of removing this naturally.
I have 2 snails in with my betta. I’ve had African dwarf frogs in the tank with him, too, and he didn’t attack them, so I’m guessing it should be fine. He’s been checking them out and swimming at the bottom more to look at them, but I haven’t seen any aggressive behavior!
I've fallen into breeding mystery snails for my local fish store. When I first started, I wasn't doing anything special, apparently the water I use is just naturally pretty good for them (of 663 snails that grew up enough to be deliverable, 662 had perfectly good shells and all seemed healthy and vigorous; I found maybe a dozen or so empty shells, so a really low observable death rate, though I suppose just-out-of-the-egg snails that didn't make it could have had their shells lost in the substrate without me ever finding them). But as I got more serious about it, I have taken water conditions a lot more seriously, so lots of pH increasing agents and powdered calcium carbonate, and daily testing of NH3, NO2, and NO3. My main tank (40 gallons) varies from 78F at the top of the tank to 76F at the bottom, so they can self-regulate as they want.
They definitely do not eat living plants. What I find interesting is that sometimes a java fern leaf will detach from the rest of the plant, but sometimes the leaf doesn't die from the separation, even it may sprout new leaves from it, and the snails won't eat those detached-but-still-living leaves. That leaf has to be dead, dead, dead before they will touch it. If snails are eating living plants, that's probably because there's nothing else left for them to eat. In which case, add some food to the tank for them!
I like to feed mine lots of different things, but Hikari algae wafers and crab cuisine make up at least half of their diet. Canned green beans (no salt added) are a fast and easy choice as well. And since I have a betta fish, any left over blood worms or brine shrimp or other frozen foods that my betta does not eat all goes into the snail tank for a tasty protein treat for them. Good for operculum growth.
My big tank didn't come with a lid, but I bought a thick sheet of plexiglass that covers most of the top. I've never had a problem with a mystery snail crawling out of the tank. Although lately one of them has been crawling up the side of the filter to lay eggsacks, and those eggsacks are such that hatchlings would not drop into the water, but onto the floor, so I have to take those eggsacks off the filter and incubate them. Otherwise I just leave them on the wall of the tank. I have had two eggsacks laid on the plexiglass though, but that's fine, they develop and hatch out normally.
I have found the first couple of eggsacks a snail lays are minimally productive, but after 4 or 5 eggsacks they start to get very successful and productive. So if the first few aren't yielding anything, don't be discouraged, just know it sometimes just takes multiple tries, but they should get there.
I recently had an adult snail die, almost certainly old age. For 5 or 6 days it was floating upside down at the surface. After the first day I moved it to a separate 5 gallon tank by itself. It didn't have any strong smell like I was led to expect from a dead snail, so I just left it and made sure to wet any part of the shell that looked like it might be getting dry. But one morning I came to check on it and it was no longer on the surface, it had fallen to the bottom. And when I went to check on it, the body slid right out of the shell and the smell was indeed most foul. When a snail is dead, that smell is unmistakably strong and awful, you will know it. A very slight smell might suggest death is coming, but if isn't knocking your socks off, it's not dead yet.
I have another snail right now that is currently just sitting half out of the water, and has been for 4 days now. I'm rather worried about that. I keep pouring water on it so it doesn't dry out. Most of the time it's angled almost 45 degrees, as if to rest its head on the heater it is next to, but every once in a while I catch it completely vertical. Most of the time when I pour some water on it I don't get any reaction from it, even where a snail next to it might react even though the water isn't on them. Today I finally got a reaction from it one time while wetting it down. So it's definitely still alive. Still, 4 days of not moving, other than from 45 to 90 to 45 again, that also means 4 days of not eating, so I'm very worried about it. Also, it's an ivory snail, yet its shell has taken on a reddish cast that my other ivories do not have. Snails have blue blood, so it's naught to do with its blood. I have no idea what's going on with that, and it is proving difficult to find information about it.
But it is a lot of fun to watch mystery snails. They are a lot faster than I expected, and they can do some amazing stunts, presumably through the use of much air in its shell. I've seen a snail walk off the end of a horizontal leaf and look like it was still walking as if still on the leaf, much like in cartoons where they run off a cliff and keep running (until they look down...). It's bizarre some of the things they can do, but fun :D
Thank you so much, I just bought a black mystery snail and he is GORGEOUS! This video was extremely helpful 💖💖
Awesome! Hope you enjoy him!
i have a snail in my tank with a betta and a pleco and i have been watching them very closely but my betta is so gentle and sweet andtheyre thriving
I recently read Walstad's book, and I learned that plants produce allelochemicals that deter snails. However, when the plant begins to die/rot, that part of the plant stops making allelochemicals, and that is how the snail knows that they are allowed to eat that.
to my surprise i woke up to baby snails in my tank this morning
thanks for this video - very informative
Congrats!
They are the cutest. Love emails and slugs
for my snails shells I crush up egg shells and sprinkle this into the tank every couple of months.
Clever!
Can coral work for extra calcium?
How many egg shells ?
@@boodith6923 did you find out if its small large or extra large eggs?
My golden mystery snail is currently 1 1/2”, named him Jackie after Captain Jack Sparrow 😆 I’ve only had him for a few months but he grew crazy fast!
I own three: a female ivory named Whisper because she likes to just sleep, an unidentified black named Shade because they're IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND, and a female golden named Dorado after the Spanish word for gold. I have no lid, but there is a lip at the top, and I have floating plants. I have a bundle of bamboo skewers that stick out of the top of the water for their eggs, especially since Whisper is now mature and going to produce her first clutch soon, and I feed them boiled veggies. Mostly spinach and the occasional sweet potato cube. I also have some vitamin rich algae pellets with plenty of calcium for some quick nibbles. I'm hoping that Shade is male, but I won't know until they're a little older. They've remained smaller than Dorado and Whisper both, though Dorado was really small when I got her anyways and Whisper's shell is now almost 2 inches wide. Honestly, I won't know for a while. If they ARE male, I'll wind up selling off a ton of baby snails as fast as humanly possible. Already setting up a second tank to hold them, and I have somewhere humid to hold the egg clutches after I remove them from the sticks. Wish me luck, lol
I love mystery snails. They're almost as much fun to watch as shrimp, they're so darned easy to take care of, and they come in such beautiful colors. Bonus - if you don't want them to make a bunch of snail babies and demanding child support, it's easy to avoid. I just got back into the aquarium hobby. My betta boy should be here in 48 hours and I've got two magenta baby snails to work on the algae. They're in quarantine right now, then I'll keep them in a breeder box till they're a little bigger, but the betta breeder said my boy was raised with mystery snails and hasn't bothered them, so I think it'll go just fine once they're too big to look like lunch. Everyone should be fine in a scratched-up old 5g for now, but next month they're getting upgraded to a 10g to accommodate adult snail bioloads. Honestly, aquatic invertebrates are some of the most mesmerizing creatures in the world. I'm excited to watch these babies grow!
I LOVE MY MYSTERY SNAIL her name is mayonnaise and she is very fast ❤️❤️❤️❤️
That's an awesome name. : -)
Really enjoy having snails in my tank, busy little creatures to watch. Very excited to have found this afternoon some snail eggs in my HOB filter. The snail snuck in via the outlet, and laid the eggs on the underside of the lid.
Love my Mystery Snails, although my hard water is off the API test chart.
I bought ONE snail and it has transformed into like 100 one day I looked in there and there was a few then one day they were literally everywhere and now I gotta find them homes !
We have 1 big snail and 1 small snail. The big 1 will climb up the glass and wood and just release himself and fly down to another location. It’s entertaining to watch! The little 1 doesn’t do much. He’s boring haha
Has anyone told you that that’s called ‘parasnailing’??? Because that’s my favorite thing I’ve learned about aquatic snails
I have three mystery snails in a 20 gallon aquarium with a male siamese fighting fish betta, and they get along fine. The betta is curious, but does no harm to the snails.
They sometimes will leave that's funny how you said that 😂 mine try to escape all the time but I have a lid that I custom built for my corner tank couldn't find a reasonable hexagon lid so I made one great video great information love your channel 👍👍
Jason I really like mystery snails. By "Like," I mean one per tank. They were also brought out of the wild to breed for Escargot, except they were not wonderful to eat.
When it comes to other fish, the only time my mystery snail bothered the fish was when they die. A mystery snail can suck back a Khuli loach after it is deceased, pretty quickly. The problem with that is you'll never know why the fish died.
I like all snails, but one Mystery Snail per 20 gallon tank is enough! Thanks Jason, your topics are on point!!
I think a lot is similar to zebra apple snails, expect they lay their eggs under water. They bread like crazy in the old tank, in the new tank not so much :(
Thanks for the guide 😋👍
Love this channel as they show to new hobbyists not to panic about some of the things new hobbyists experience
Thank you!
I had a pond snail problem in a tank which was just setup. I put a plant in there which must have brought the snails in. I wasn’t feeding anything because I was cycling the tank. It was a nightmare. The only ones I keep now are assassin snails and nerite snails I. The other tanks. I did order a few mystery snails for my betta tanks.
Assassin snails are bomb though!
I now have about 200 mystery snail's I love them I hate that people think they can,
Live on alge alone !
I feed mine lots!
Ya that's how I make money so ha ha is on you !
The more people who do that the more I sell lol
We love our Mystery snails. :)
I have kept adult Mystery snails in my mixed Tanganyika tank with no problems for about a year now. Cyps, Gobys, Comprecciseps, juvie Frontosas and even the adult Lelupii all leave them alone. It was a bit iffy when everyone was getting to know each other but now it is a very cool setup. I think having a large tank has helped. They are fun to watch and do a great job cleaning up. Great vid.
I could see them working with cyps for sure. Surprised the frontosa haven't eaten them yet.
Another great video mate and perfect timing really 2 days ago i recieved 5 mystery snails
looking forward to seeing you tomorrow and just gcca swap in general lol
It was great meeting you !
@@PrimeTimeAquatics same here haha been well over a year now i got to say a year ago watching your multis spotlight i never thought I'd end up getting them from you lol been a crazy year
We have Bolivian Rams and Thick lip Sunset Gorami as well as an assortment of Guppies and they all play very well together. We had a Golden Ram however, and he was a stressor in the tank.
How often do you recommend feeding a mystery snail? Thanks!
If there is nothing for it to eat in the tank I feed them everyday.
I can absolutely agree with the filter intake part, happened a week ago to my ramshorns
I love mine. He's ivory and honestly sooooooooooo cute and cool.
6 months later: I love them so much Im now breeding them!
I bought one today but died a couple hours later like it just died but I’m worried about diseases cuz I touched it Can you help me
Eman 99 dont worry about diseases, they don’t carry any. It’s actually not unusual for a mystery snail to die when it’s put in new water. Are your parameters good? If so bring your dead snail and water back to the pet store and if your water is good they will likely give you another one. I’m actually breeding them now. They need more than just algae and leftover fish food to survive and be healthy though. I give mine lots of blanched green veggies and I make snail jello for them. They’re awesome pets, if you live in Alberta Canada I can give you another for free lol
Your ram cichlids and Bolivian rams plus apistogrammas do really quite well because they are not overly aggressive I've even heard of people keeping kribensis with them
I didn't need a 2nd snail. I got just one and it made eggs and those eggs hatched into 100s of snails.
You got a female with fertilized eggs - that's cool! : -)
Oh wow lol I got a female today. I hope this happens to me😅
Love the chiclids tank. Water is crystal clear
Thank you!
I love these guys. They are favorite. I breed them. I got a red one. Yes I did say red. It's on my Instagram. Melléwedin.
Sounds cool!
Wow sounds so cool!! I will take a look :)
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Can these snails be kept without fish i want to get a few just for a small pet without fish
@@meredith8447 Yeah that's actually better since theres no fish to nip at their eyes
Awesome video. Might try them with my centrals but I'll remove them if problems arise
These are 100% mystery snails. Most of the ones that me showed are Apple snails.
mystery snails are apple snails. they are spiked topped apple snails
I was planning to get an aquatic snail for my aquarium. But maybe not a mystery snail. I have a 10 gallon simly planted aquarium (looking for more plants to add) but you said not aggressive fish. I have a betta named Vobo he's a very docile betta I have some neons in there but he never chases them and when I feed them he eats contently along beside them. They even group around him.
He's a good boy, the reason why I want a snail is because my algy is building up and some of my plants need some clean up. But just to be sure I'll take him out add in some more plants and the snail before adding him in. Tho I don't really think he'll be all that interested in the snail.
Right now we have two different tanks with mystery snails and a betta and it's working out ok. It really depends on the betta, but so far so good.
i am getting a snail called robert pattinson
i named mine jerry seinfeld
robert pattinson
I love when new plants have snails hiding in them..... and so do my yoyo loaches.
I bet they do!
I have mystery snails in pH 6.2 . Every second week with water change I use my soda stream with water and fizz then add 2 teaspoons of calcium carbonate. Cheap as chips. When I add it to my 6x2x2 tank it looks so cool like a horror movie with fog creeping through my tank. This only last for an HR or so with co2 injection in my tank. Snails are absolutely fine with great shells. So it's possible with low pH and a little care
I just bought a snail that did not move for a week. It did not smell so I gave it time. Now it is all over the aquarium. I also think I have a breeding pair. I've seem them mate 3 times now!
Mystery snails are the secret of the universe. They whisper secrets in the slime to us, The Watchers… all hail the snail!
I have ivory mystery snails and my shrimp and algae eating fish cling onto them and clean their shells for them. Really cool i think!
Snails are awesome!!!
My snails are so adorable I wish I could hug them
I bought a single black mystery snail because I don't want them to breed and take over! Its great when it comes to eating algae and almost never stops moving 😁
Glad it's working well!
😆 I have one of these snails. Its cute. Mine likes to eat and munch on spinach leaves. LOL One mystery I discovered about what it likes. 😉 Oh how do you tell if you have a male or female snail? LOL Nice video too. I also have to fresh water shrimp as well in my aquarium along with the fish.
They are also quite beautiful additions to any tank
Those baby 😍 snails are adorable.
Just livin the tiny snail life. :-)
Excellent tutorial on the Mystery Snails. Your advice is always spot on. I enjoyed watching. These Snails seem to multiply like crazy at certain times. I will be cycling a tank soon. As soon as I’m close to the end of cycling the tank I will be getting Snails and Otocinclus Fish as my first livestock to my tank. Algae blooms sometimes happen to a new tank. I also want to get some other kinds of Snails too. Can you do a video on the other kinds of Snails? Thank you for sharing this video with us. Your videos are always a joy to watch in midst of some of the garbage on RUclips!
I will add it to my list. Always appreciate you watching!
Loved the video!! Thank you for all the helpful tips in caring for these guys! How many would you recommend for a 10 gallon with a betta?
1 or 2 should be good.
My mystery snails love a slice of steamed zuchini or spinach (spinach has some calcium for them). One of mine is doing so well and has grown huge, but the other one has been suffering. I watched a tiny neon bite the tentacle of the struggling one during feeding time (it darted out to eat and saw it moving I guess). So sad as now it has fallen off. I have heard they grow back and I hope that happens but this snail has had a rough go of it already. They are very interesting to watch - very peaceful.
Mine is peach 🍑 and his body is peach with gold sparkly flakes all over. I put him with my small 1 - 2 in cichlids and it just kept in its shel and wouldn’t move so after a couple hours I put him back with my betta. I’m so glad I decided to search videos on RUclips about why and found this
Glad you were able to make the switch. Sounds like a cool snail. : -)
Prime Time Aquatics oh he originated in my betta and was just moving around like lightening so I thought maybe he would like to eat some of the algae in my cichlids tank but three hours and no movement I took him out and returned him to his original home and he peeked right up. Honestly I didn’t know it was the fish because my cichlids are timid and always hiding I thought it was because the tank was about 75 and he was in one that was about 82 degrees which is why I was cautious and watching his behavior after transfer
In my high school we had a marine biology class that we could take. Part of the class that we had to form a group of three and had to set up and aquarium and choose and care for fish. I got the fish, 2 creamcicle molies and a golden mystery snail. The snail helped keep the aquarium clean very well, but I would cut a decent size of cucumber, tied it to a rock and drop it in. The snail would have eaten the whole thing in one night. But she was larger than other snails that I had seen at 2 1/2 to 3 inches.
It's amazing how much they eat!
When I was 6 I had one mistery snail and he constantly escaped xD everytime he hid somewhere for a week, I would drop him back in the tank and he'd be fine.
One,maybe two caveats. Mystery snails will eat the roots of Epiphytic plants. Anubias,Java,Bolbitis. Its sneaky..but after awhile you might see one that is all rhizome as it floats by your face-lol..the snails ate the anchor roots. They also will nibble on moss stems. They might rasp Sword plant leaves. Its either them or Ancistrus..not sure.
I took them out and put them in the pond for summer.
Your tank is so clear and beautiful ♥️🤗😍
Thank you!
Not a snail type of person but the info was awesome! Thank you Jason for sharing!!!!
Thanks Denny!
One blue shell became 28 large ones in a 240 gallon. I had to pair that down to five. They will eat plants like cardamine..very soft leafed plants..and they might eat roots of Bolbitis and Java fern. The vast majority of plants they pretty much ignore. Now,starve them and everything might change..but toss in food that can land on the gravels, or blanched veggies, and they are fun to have.
Thanks for sharing. The blue ones look really cool!
You can drop a piece of egg shell in the tank -& they'll get loads of calcium from eating it & they love it too 😊
Im getting 2 mystery snails tomorrow for my Betta tank! My betta is very passive. Not agressive at all. I have 2/3 almost full grown bladder snails and my betta loves them, has never nipped or flared at them he just looks at them and follows them around. If it does go wrong i have a spare tank for the snails
Hey great video lots of info I enjoyed it.
Thanks from eastern Canada
Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
I just got 3 mystery snails to breed for my pea puffers that I will be picking up this week!!!
Cool!
Are pea puffers strong enough to crush Mystery Snail shells?
For calcium issues. Add crushed coral. only really necessary for tanks which are breeding snails maybe sometimes shrimp.
I put cuttlebone in my tank for my 3 snails. 2 of the snails are always attached to each other. Not sure what they are up to. lol
I just got my first mystery snail eggs ❤ can't wait to see some babies
Congrats!
I never take the shells of dead snails out of my tank except for five nerite snail shells that I’m gonna use for decoration in another set up
Really enjoy this post, very helpful great information. THANKS ALOT!!