Golden Apple Snail Babies?

[Lavinder]

When I first had my Golden Apple snails I noticed after a few weeks a stain from a clutch of eggs and hundreds of babies roaming my tank - unfortunately my snails died when I medicated my fish as I was not aware that it would affect them (silly me). But it's now been about 4 months and although some snails seem bigger most of them are about the size of a tomatoe pip and get sucked up from the gravel when I do water changes (I tip them away as there are so many of them)

I was just wondering why they don't seem to be getting much bigger? They look exactly like little miniature apple snails when they are going up the glass.

Will having so many babies cause harm to the water?


Also I'm delighted because I had to order another light because my other broke and when my new one arrived I noticed 2 little baby platy's swimming about, I can't believe I did not notice that she was pregnant!

 

[Fishy friend2]

What coLor are they, I know nothing about the growth of apple snails, but I know that bigbruiseral will, but what color are the snails? Possibly they could be a different type of snail, hence why they are so small

 

[Lavinder]

A sort of muddy orange brown slighly seethrough =]

 

[Fishy friend2]

Have you searched up ramshorn snails or pond snails

 

[BigbruiserAl]

you called

How old are they in total then? What are you feeding them? yes the will ruin your water after a while. having hundered in a tank you need to thnk each one needs 2.5G per snail when older, can your filter cope with bio load? How big is the tank/can it cope? And if a few die they will give off a huge ammonia spike which can wipe the tank out

 

[Lavinder]

I'll look up pond etc. snails

And they are about 3 months old but still tiny, I have no intention of keeping more than two. I suck up as many as I can during water changes anyway.

My tank being a small 37l would never be able to handle so many haha.

 

[BigbruiserAl]

you want to sucking as many as you can and giving them away to the pet store or people on here. if you have not been feeding them they wont be growing they will be slowly starving to death. If you get more eggs the most humane way is after a day or so scrape the eggs into a small pot place in the freezer for 2 days then you can bin them

 

[Lavinder]

I feed flakes to my fish and have used algea flakes when I had apple snails - when I bought the snails I did not know anything about how they bred but the shop suggested I have 2 so when all the little snails appeared I looked it up. I no longer have the snails so I won't have that problem again.