Breeding Snails For Puffers

[McCool]

Quick question. Are Mystery snails good for breeding and puffer food? Usually all I hear mentioned are Ramshorn and Pond, and not to feed trumpet. I'm just wondering because my LFS has a bunch of them. I already have some Pond snails breeding in a separate tank, But I'm just curious.
Thanks!

 

[betta fish]

I don't see why not, it will only be the mystery snail babies that can be fed to puffers (well dwarf puffers anyway) as they get rather large and then the puffers will only succeed in nipping their feelers off and making their life a misery rather than eating them straight out so it really depend what puffer you intend them for. Trumpet snails are fine for puffers but due to their hard shells and conical shape they find it difficult to extract them, but my dwarfs do manage it sometimes, they just have to get them at the right time! ideal snails for dwarfs are small pond/tadpole snails, mine adore these.

 

[McCool]

These are for South American. I thought the trumpet snails were known to chip their teeth because of their hard shells? Hmm. Anyways, the big mystery snails would only be for breeding, so the puffs would only get the babies

 

[McCool]

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[minnnt]

I had people send me snails from their tanks. I even had some MTS sent to me thinking that they would be excellent for the Puffers to grind their teeth on. Yeah right, lol. Mine paid them attention for about 2 seconds whilst they floated down to the bottom and that was it. Having MTS in your tank is always good anyway as they will keep your substrate aerated and loose. If they Puffers eat them then it's a bonus. I just stick to frozen live food for mine now.