Apple Snail Advice

[mondo4u]

Hi my apple snails have laid few batches of eggs above water line , does anyone know how to breed and care for baby snails once hatched , or any advice to do with them with thanks lee

 

[comocrayfish5]

i have a small snail that occationaly has babies- no eggs, i just find i tiny snail in my tank . i dont do anything with my babies but just keep them in a jar with a lot of algae so they can eat. they should take care of them sevles all of mine are growing and are healthy; but i am no snail expert

 

[Iiriva]

Apparently you made two topic about the same thing, so I'll just put my anwer in here as well:

So easy it's redicilous. Two is just for starters, there will be many, many more during nest few weeks, so you actually may want to destroy few of them if you don't want hundreds of them. It takes 2-3 weeks for the little ones to hatch. They then drop to the water (the eggs have to stay above the waterline during the progress though) and already are proper apple snails in a really small scale, and they eat everything the adult ones do too.

I had 9 sets of eggs and had to destroy 2 of them, and will destroy the new ones as well if they are to lay more. I can handle few dozen of them at a time, but not hundreds!

How to take care of them depends on what you have with the apple snails and what the size of the tank is. If there is some fish that could eat them, you could collect them to a separate tank. Apple snails need clean, cyckled and filtered water too when growing, so a cup of tap water won't do.

I have a tank with only apple snails and shrimps in it so they stay in the same tank they are born in until they are big enough to move away.

 

[mondo4u]

Apparently you made two topic about the same thing, so I'll just put my anwer in here as well:

So easy it's redicilous. Two is just for starters, there will be many, many more during nest few weeks, so you actually may want to destroy few of them if you don't want hundreds of them. It takes 2-3 weeks for the little ones to hatch. They then drop to the water (the eggs have to stay above the waterline during the progress though) and already are proper apple snails in a really small scale, and they eat everything the adult ones do too.

I had 9 sets of eggs and had to destroy 2 of them, and will destroy the new ones as well if they are to lay more. I can handle few dozen of them at a time, but not hundreds!

How to take care of them depends on what you have with the apple snails and what the size of the tank is. If there is some fish that could eat them, you could collect them to a separate tank. Apple snails need clean, cyckled and filtered water too when growing, so a cup of tap water won't do.

I have a tank with only apple snails and shrimps in it so they stay in the same tank they are born in until they are big enough to move away.

 

[mondo4u]

Thanks for advice ,I'm looking forward to them hatching .Il let you know how they get on .