Apple Snail Babies

[Fighterfish]

Woo!!
My apple snails have had their firs batch of babies. They are a yellow colour i think but the parents are yellow and blue so who knows. There are around 50cof them so as soon as they are pea size i will be selling/swapping them. If anyone would like to buy them 4 for £4 including postage or swap them for food or plants (Maybe even fish if you are nearby-Hertfordshire) Then either pm me or post here. I am doing a first come first serve basis.
Thanks.

 

[Fighterfish]

3 more batches of eggs this morning so there will be even more babies. Apple snail eggs are ssoooo cool.

 

[Gankutsuou]

i already have enough snail problems with what came with my plants... Some odd brown snail with a see-throughish shell. there were tons...

 

[Tommy Gunnz]

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! I appreciate your enthusiasm for apple snails since I at one time shared the same love for the creatures. However, I can tell you that unless you have a good plan in place for dealing with their outragous breeding speeds! I had two apple snails in a tank which quickly got over run by them, so I bought a smaller tank just for them. Guess, what? It seemed like every single egg turned into a new snail and I had hundreds. Once I decided that enough was enough, I could barely get rid of them, even after taking the over run tanks down for about two months, they still survived. Even four loaches couldnt eat em all fast enough.

Like I said though, I understand you passion and would never knock you for it. Just wanted to help others learn from my mistakes. I would suggest keeping them seperate from any other tank you might not want to get over run, or have a good place to take them (like a LFS) when you have too many for your tank. Good luck

 

[voo]

It'd probably be wise to get rid of 1-2 batches of eggs before they hatch.
If you're keeping them in a tank with plants then they might end up eating them if you're not feeding them enough, which is quite hard - the fish will usually get to the food before the snails!!
Another thing is you'll have to suppliment the tank with calcium for their shells, otherwise they'll become pitted.

You could try listing them on ebay? I sold a few on there before. As you have so many you can afford to undercut those already on there. I probably only sold around 30 snails on there though, with 2 listings

 

[wodesorel]

If all three clutches hatch (and they have very very low mortality rates in aquariums), you're looking at around 450 to 600 babies. That's how many hatched from just three clutches - though they were at breeders' homes by that point. I don't know if you're breeding or just doing this for fun, but that's a lot of work.

And briggs (which I'm assuming you have, though rams do come in blue as well) don't eat plants. They need cooked or defrosted veggies in order to get enough to eat.

I'm trying to hatch about 1/5 of one of my clutches. I'm only looking for maybe 15 to 20 babies to start out with.

 

[voo]

If the apple snails aren't fed enough they will start to eat plants, otherwise they wont touch plants.

 

[Gankutsuou]

you can look at it as a problem... or you can look at it as....

FREE LOACH FOOD!

 

[voo]

Then you'll have another problem, loads of empty snail shells in the bottom of your tank that the gravel filter won't suck up