How do you set up a nursery tank? my snail just layed eggs and i dont want the babies in the big tank cause i have 3 frogs and a betta fish that will probably eat them.. plus i dont want to have to clean up all the dead ones from my big tank. i have a 5 gallon tank im not using can i put them in that? and how do you transfer them? cause the eggs cant be right in the water until they hatch right?
@sailornight6 can you please help me I have a VERY tiny SNAIL problem I discovered baby mystery snail today I have a snail bat i don't know if they are here baby's I pout theme in a breeding tank saw they will be safer because I don't know anything about theme I have alsow 10 days guppy fry in the breeding tank bat they seem safe can you please help me
@PuffyPikachu1 When they were first put on the market, no one knew what their exact species was, but now we know that they are Pomacea diffusa, but the common name "Mystery" stuck.
@PuffyPikachu1 Because you can get diffrent colors and a time people thought they where diffrent spieces but they was just diffrent coloring form same spiece- Pomacea diffusa, but sometimes thehy sell other snails from the fmaily "Ampullariidae" as "mystery snail" or pomace diffusa (older Bridgesii). Special about pomacea diffusa si that they dont eat all your aquarium plants- like many other from this family would do :P
This is so awesome! I'm excited, as my pair of mystery snails squirted out a batch of these on the lid where I feed my fish! She did this just yesterday, so I'm looking everything up! We were told we had two females, but lo and behold, our golden mystery snail is a boy, while our brown/gold striped is a girl! Wow!
@sailornight6 Otherwise known as ramshorn snails. You DO NOT want those. They commonly attach themselves and their egg sacks to aquarium plants then all of the sudden when you take the plants home, guess what, you have a snail problem. Also ramshorn or pond snails lay their eggs under water where as Mystery Snails or Apple Snails lay their eggs above water. Any way as sailornight6 has said watch it with the pest snails. They multiply like cockraches.
My snail laid eggs about a week ago, on the side of the tank. Do I leave them there or should I try to burry them in our sand? I've read different things so I'm lost.
you can see them, they lay right above the water line normally. i once found some on the under side of my hood, they can get quite inventive when they want to be
me feel sorry for you although your probably say no i dont but i want that many! Instead my brothers stupid snail donald only had two.... wah Anyway yaaaaaaa so ...
My snail laid eggs....one week later there was more than 50 tiny snail in my fish tank....and i am not kidding...After a whole month my whole fish tank was covered in hundreds of tiny snail....i had to separate them from the fish...so i put them in a different tank but they ended up eating their mom...I just noticed they reproduce themselves..Stupid snail now i cant get rid of them..Im NEVER going to buy another water snail EVER. Stupid snail invasion:(!
@909Dwayne as cruel as it sounds, you have to make a choice when you keep fish, especially if your not looking to breed. if you do not have the time or space to raise lots of little mouths you have to make a choice.
@909Dwayne it is a good option. but they will not take them until they are a certian size, which again meants time space and alot of little mouths to take care of.
or the fish store will throw them in with a snail eater then they are dead anyways
Just had some snails hatch this morning it was a ivory mystery snail, i didn't want to keep all of them in the tank they were hatching in so i put a few inches of water in a small tank with some algey tablets with a light beside the tank to keep it warm, almost of the snails are at the waterline just chillin, is this normal ( about 11 hours after they have hatched) and do you have any tips for careing for them. I just baught a heater for them and i plan on moving the water line up to about half
that is very normal, mystery snails are air breathers,and your doing a good thing for making it easy for the little guys to get to the surface. the first few days they may not eat for they will have full bellies and tired from popping out of there eggs, but don't panic.
@madisu again they are more then likely the hitchhiker pond snail. trust me when these guys grow up they will look nothing like those 2 million snails
@lee101ct those are pond snails. they are different kind of snail then the one featured in the video. these are mystery snails part of the apple snail family. they do not sneak into your tank, they have to be purchased, and they grow up to be big snails while the pond snail always stays small.
no worries all of them eventually found brand new homes. the remainder either stayed with me or went to my local fish store which sold them. mysteries are not like some other snails which go a little crazy when it comes to breeding.
@ChedderHead42 That's perfect for them. Crushed coral and small snail shells are good for them to b/c when they break down they will put more calcium into the water which is a staple for your snail.
that doesn't really mean its dead. the easiest but the most unpleasant way to tell if a snail is dead is to take it out and smell it. if it smells like dog poop then its dead.
snails like to float around and goof off, so it floating is not a sure sign its dead.
I got a Black Mystery Snail yesterday (my old one died a couple weeks ago) and I put him in my tank. He didn't move and when I woke up in the morning he was floating at the top. Is he dead?
I'm in snail hell! Five egg sacks, three hatched just yesterday...and I've tried to separate as many of the grain~of~rice size baby snails as I can..118 and still counting..with two more to still hatch! GAH!!! Don't wish to breed them!
these look awesome man. i want to breed them so bad. i have 2 blue apple snails but my platies pick them to death. im about to set them up their own little 10gallon tank and i hope mine end up like yours:)
i think there pretty indiscriminate on what kind of snail they mount. i used to have a blue one a long time ago and he was always climbing on the black ones. they really shouldn't care
they eat just about anything. i like anything that sinks to the bottom of the tank so they get a chance to nibble at it. and a tum on occasion, they need the calcium for there shells.
i have a five gallon but honestly i would have a bigger tank, a ten gallon would probally work, gives them more room to grow in.
water temp about average for a tropical fish around 70
it is hard to convince them that we want babies. mom needs to think things are perfect for her little ones, just remember mysteries have there own mind. you can't force them just encourage them.
thanx for the advice :D, i went out and bought a 10 gallon and i got a chunk of wood, but i was wondering, would they need live plants or can i get away with fake ones?
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How do you set up a nursery tank? my snail just layed eggs and i dont want the babies in the big tank cause i have 3 frogs and a betta fish that will probably eat them.. plus i dont want to have to clean up all the dead ones from my big tank. i have a 5 gallon tank im not using can i put them in that? and how do you transfer them? cause the eggs cant be right in the water until they hatch right?
caitlynmarie89 1 week ago
EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
randomJAKA 3 weeks ago
I'm a Science teacher and the kids are observing snails... I am going to show your clips tomorrow! Thanks!
dustydannemiller 3 weeks ago
Check out my vid and tell me if i have baby snails and what to feed them thanks!
MasonProd 1 month ago
Nice how old are they and how fast do they grow
1997xboxgamer 4 months ago
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will the other fish in the tank eat my babies as they hatch?
tinray3836 4 months ago
will the other fish in the tank eat my babies as they hatch?
tinray3836 4 months ago
the attack of the snails
warrior6551 4 months ago
@sailornight6 can you please help me I have a VERY tiny SNAIL problem I discovered baby mystery snail today I have a snail bat i don't know if they are here baby's I pout theme in a breeding tank saw they will be safer because I don't know anything about theme I have alsow 10 days guppy fry in the breeding tank bat they seem safe can you please help me
12Achilleas 5 months ago
cool video I'll post one up soon about my snails
jaredultimatum 6 months ago
whats the mystery about em'??
PuffyPikachu1 7 months ago
@PuffyPikachu1 When they were first put on the market, no one knew what their exact species was, but now we know that they are Pomacea diffusa, but the common name "Mystery" stuck.
satchellwk 7 months ago
@PuffyPikachu1 Because you can get diffrent colors and a time people thought they where diffrent spieces but they was just diffrent coloring form same spiece- Pomacea diffusa, but sometimes thehy sell other snails from the fmaily "Ampullariidae" as "mystery snail" or pomace diffusa (older Bridgesii). Special about pomacea diffusa si that they dont eat all your aquarium plants- like many other from this family would do :P
Koi5505 5 months ago
This is so awesome! I'm excited, as my pair of mystery snails squirted out a batch of these on the lid where I feed my fish! She did this just yesterday, so I'm looking everything up! We were told we had two females, but lo and behold, our golden mystery snail is a boy, while our brown/gold striped is a girl! Wow!
JGNo3 7 months ago
How do i make my snail have babies? Should i buy more than one?
TangyWhiteRice 8 months ago
@TangyWhiteRice yes you need a male and female
Z3kedog 6 months ago
cute
CSXsonic 9 months ago
I GOT ONE OF THOSE FOR FREE THE GUY DID NOTICE HE GOT COUGHT ON THE NET WHEN HE WAS TRYIN TO CATCH THE FISH I WANTED SINCE HIS SOOO SMALL LOL
cleerin1 11 months ago 3
@cleerin1
watch the free snails, they are the ones they tend to multiply quickly, they are pest pond snails
sailornight6 9 months ago
@sailornight6 o yea i know that i breed them for food lol for the fish
cleerin1 8 months ago
@sailornight6 a cheap add to a breeding feeder fish tank you know chad, shiners all live bred. these are a good food source for clown loaches as well
wahhho 2 months ago
@sailornight6 Otherwise known as ramshorn snails. You DO NOT want those. They commonly attach themselves and their egg sacks to aquarium plants then all of the sudden when you take the plants home, guess what, you have a snail problem. Also ramshorn or pond snails lay their eggs under water where as Mystery Snails or Apple Snails lay their eggs above water. Any way as sailornight6 has said watch it with the pest snails. They multiply like cockraches.
trueblu8 2 months ago
aaaawwww there so cute i used to have a garden snail called charlie ssooo cute!!
TheAmbereyedwolf 1 year ago
Whats gross about it
spot78000 1 year ago
gross
Killinemdead1 1 year ago
My snail laid eggs about a week ago, on the side of the tank. Do I leave them there or should I try to burry them in our sand? I've read different things so I'm lost.
deadalive85 1 year ago
@deadalive85
well what kind of eggs are they, are they gel looking ones or are they right above the tank lid?
sailornight6 1 year ago
@sailornight6 how do u know the snails are laying eggs because i dont want like 1000 snails in my ten gal tank
Lurk1ngLurk3r 9 months ago
@Lurk1ngLurk3r
you can see them, they lay right above the water line normally. i once found some on the under side of my hood, they can get quite inventive when they want to be
sailornight6 9 months ago
me feel sorry for you although your probably say no i dont but i want that many! Instead my brothers stupid snail donald only had two.... wah Anyway yaaaaaaa so ...
;P bye
tinkerbrittany 1 year ago
My snail laid eggs....one week later there was more than 50 tiny snail in my fish tank....and i am not kidding...After a whole month my whole fish tank was covered in hundreds of tiny snail....i had to separate them from the fish...so i put them in a different tank but they ended up eating their mom...I just noticed they reproduce themselves..Stupid snail now i cant get rid of them..Im NEVER going to buy another water snail EVER. Stupid snail invasion:(!
YourFanForLife23 1 year ago
@YourFanForLife23
if you do not want baby snails, next time i would remove the eggs and throw them out.
FYI you can sell mystery snails back to most fish stores and even online. a lot of my little guys found new homes with people online.
sailornight6 1 year ago
@sailornight6 But i didnt see it when it was laying eggs..
YourFanForLife23 1 year ago
@sailornight6 I wouldnt be able to throw the poor little babies out D:
909Dwayne 1 year ago
@909Dwayne as cruel as it sounds, you have to make a choice when you keep fish, especially if your not looking to breed. if you do not have the time or space to raise lots of little mouths you have to make a choice.
sailornight6 1 year ago
@sailornight6 I would give da wittle babies to a pet store. I could not hurt my snailies.
909Dwayne 1 year ago
@909Dwayne it is a good option. but they will not take them until they are a certian size, which again meants time space and alot of little mouths to take care of.
or the fish store will throw them in with a snail eater then they are dead anyways
sailornight6 1 year ago
lol its like a traffic jam in there!
keebles21 1 year ago
Heyy plz help me! i want to make mine breed! how could i do that? thnx
MsKaylee100 1 year ago
@MsKaylee100 i am not sure how to how to make them breed. just be patient and make sure you have a male and female snail in the tank.
sailornight6 1 year ago
what do you feed them?
LiveTheLimit 1 year ago
@LiveTheLimit anything sinking, so they can get to it. make sure you have some sort of a calcium supplement for their shell development
sailornight6 1 year ago
about a 2.5 gal hexigon tank btw
Juggalo4LifeNCmyspac 1 year ago
Just had some snails hatch this morning it was a ivory mystery snail, i didn't want to keep all of them in the tank they were hatching in so i put a few inches of water in a small tank with some algey tablets with a light beside the tank to keep it warm, almost of the snails are at the waterline just chillin, is this normal ( about 11 hours after they have hatched) and do you have any tips for careing for them. I just baught a heater for them and i plan on moving the water line up to about half
Juggalo4LifeNCmyspac 1 year ago
@Juggalo4LifeNCmyspac
that is very normal, mystery snails are air breathers,and your doing a good thing for making it easy for the little guys to get to the surface. the first few days they may not eat for they will have full bellies and tired from popping out of there eggs, but don't panic.
sailornight6 1 year ago
do you are someone you know have snails for sale?
TaylorDero11 1 year ago
i had tadpoles and a snail then POOF 2 million snails
madisu 1 year ago
@madisu again they are more then likely the hitchhiker pond snail. trust me when these guys grow up they will look nothing like those 2 million snails
sailornight6 1 year ago
how long does it usally take for the to get ping pong ball sized?
lordkesil 1 year ago
@lordkesil
good question, about two months given good tank size heat and food
sailornight6 1 year ago
No u don't I have 13 in my pond and 1 in my fish tank and I got them from the pet shop they give them away cos they come in of plants
lee101ct 1 year ago
@lee101ct those are pond snails. they are different kind of snail then the one featured in the video. these are mystery snails part of the apple snail family. they do not sneak into your tank, they have to be purchased, and they grow up to be big snails while the pond snail always stays small.
sailornight6 1 year ago
They come from live pond/tank plants and there a pain when u have lots of them as they have been known to come out of the water
lee101ct 1 year ago
@lee101ct
actually those are pond snails which is a pest snail. these are mystery snails, which do not breed as fast as the pond snail.
yes they will come out of the water but no they do not come in from tank plants. mystery snails have to be purchased to get them.
sailornight6 1 year ago
awesome
penguinshamrock 1 year ago
How do you know if the snail is pregnant or ready to breed?
azianxsinx 1 year ago
@azianxsinx
this is not easy, there is really no give away until they start laying eggs.
some females will come above the water line a bit more often to try and select the perfect spot for her babies to develop in.
sailornight6 1 year ago
is there any signs that show your snail is pregnant or ready to breed?
azianxsinx 1 year ago
The Skunk Botia/Hora's Loach eat snails quickly. If you become overstocked, use these little guys to clean up for you.
Hotaru845 1 year ago
@Hotaru845
no worries all of them eventually found brand new homes. the remainder either stayed with me or went to my local fish store which sold them. mysteries are not like some other snails which go a little crazy when it comes to breeding.
sailornight6 1 year ago
i have really fine sand in my tank do u know if that will be a problem for the snails?
ChedderHead42 1 year ago
@ChedderHead42
nope not at all, in fact i think some guys really like sand, easier to find food
sailornight6 1 year ago
@ChedderHead42 That's perfect for them. Crushed coral and small snail shells are good for them to b/c when they break down they will put more calcium into the water which is a staple for your snail.
Clarissa4o9 1 year ago
@Clarissa4o9
they also love tums as well, cuttle bone will work as well.
sailornight6 1 year ago
they don't do great with algae but they are great at picking up food on the bottom of the tank.
sailornight6 1 year ago
do they keep your tank clean?...
ddsspecpk5 1 year ago
that doesn't really mean its dead. the easiest but the most unpleasant way to tell if a snail is dead is to take it out and smell it. if it smells like dog poop then its dead.
snails like to float around and goof off, so it floating is not a sure sign its dead.
sailornight6 1 year ago
I got a Black Mystery Snail yesterday (my old one died a couple weeks ago) and I put him in my tank. He didn't move and when I woke up in the morning he was floating at the top. Is he dead?
TheBunnyluver99 1 year ago
this would be cooler if it was sped up!!!
Surge3k 2 years ago
wow! lots of snails! view my channel for a free gift!
frozensnail 2 years ago
DEM SNAILS.
Archwig 2 years ago
Hi, nice video! :)
Do you know how to tell between golden apple snail baby and mystery snail baby?
Because I just saw like 4 transperant snail babies in my tank and I don't know if they come from the plants or they are my mystery snail's babies.
Thanks..
henrysincity 2 years ago
put some cabbage in thei r gonna be all over it
osvas23 2 years ago
I'm in snail hell! Five egg sacks, three hatched just yesterday...and I've tried to separate as many of the grain~of~rice size baby snails as I can..118 and still counting..with two more to still hatch! GAH!!! Don't wish to breed them!
1verstreate1 2 years ago
do u wanna sell them?if u do, ill get some if there cheep!!!!
MyFishies 2 years ago
Sorry, I have since sold them for store credit at the local Fins'n'Feathers petshop! But if you buy a few adults, you're guranteed lots of babies!
1verstreate1 2 years ago
You didn't make them speak anymore than the point when he sail "i am ok really".
poracas 2 years ago
nope they hatch into really little versions of a large mystery snail
sailornight6 2 years ago
there were two egg patches
sailornight6 2 years ago
these look awesome man. i want to breed them so bad. i have 2 blue apple snails but my platies pick them to death. im about to set them up their own little 10gallon tank and i hope mine end up like yours:)
evozoocorey28 2 years ago
Hey can a black one breed with a gold one? I have one of each...
cosmoline626 2 years ago
i think there pretty indiscriminate on what kind of snail they mount. i used to have a blue one a long time ago and he was always climbing on the black ones. they really shouldn't care
sailornight6 2 years ago
what type of food do you give them, and how much?
mamdlr 2 years ago
they eat just about anything. i like anything that sinks to the bottom of the tank so they get a chance to nibble at it. and a tum on occasion, they need the calcium for there shells.
sailornight6 2 years ago
I need help
i want to set up a mystery snail tank and breed them but i don't know a few things
1. How big of tank
2. Water temp.
3. how much space above the water they need to lay their eggs(or if they need any)
if you could help me out i would appreciate it much :D
megaultracrapfase 2 years ago
i have a five gallon but honestly i would have a bigger tank, a ten gallon would probally work, gives them more room to grow in.
water temp about average for a tropical fish around 70
it is hard to convince them that we want babies. mom needs to think things are perfect for her little ones, just remember mysteries have there own mind. you can't force them just encourage them.
sailornight6 2 years ago
thanx for the advice :D, i went out and bought a 10 gallon and i got a chunk of wood, but i was wondering, would they need live plants or can i get away with fake ones?
megaultracrapfase 2 years ago
honestly they don't really care one way or the other.
if you to put ornaments in make sure if they have holes that they are big enough so they don't get stuck.
sailornight6 2 years ago
so cute
Amazingalissahh 2 years ago