Snail Pics!

[cometcattle]

Cute snails.

If I were a betting man, I'd wager that those will be pets, not dinner.

 

[cutechic]

SirMinion- I think I'll remain them what you suggested

nitro- Yep, they're just common pond snails. The lfs charged me for them though

cometcattle- you'd be wrong. I will stay detached from these guys. I can't wait for my puffers to go "hunting". I feel evil now

 

[Arashi]

Heehee! I like Speedy...he's cute.

Nice pics, cutechic! Can't wait to see the future puffers!

 

[cutechic]

Thanks Arashi. The lfs should get a new shipment in 2 weeks. *crosses fingers*

 

[Jimmy927]

if you want to keep your snails put them in a net breeding trap if you want and put a lid on the top of it so they wont get out.

james

 

[cutechic]

I like letting them have the run of the tank, because my puffers will be able to go hunting whenever they want. Thanks for the idea though

 

[samthefishman]

heres a story for you
I started off with 2 snails. I was sooo bored and decided to count them....
Ready for this?? itsbeen 2 months, i now have 204.
Now u can see why i hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they breed every single day! i find new eggs everywhere, i pop as many clusters as possible! i hate them!!!!! why do they haunt me!

 

[jordan barnhart]

Aww. What a cute little snack.

 

[cutechic]

heres a story for you
I started off with 2 snails. I was sooo bored and decided to count them....
Ready for this?? itsbeen 2 months, i now have 204.
Now u can see why i hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they breed every single day! i find new eggs everywhere, i pop as many clusters as possible! i hate them!!!!! why do they haunt me!

That's what happened with mine. I began with one snail, and ended up with a gazillion. It turned me off snails for several years... but I had to get some for the puffers.

 

[myenigmaself]

Check this out. I had 3 puffers, but I didn't have enough food for them (they would only eat live food). I was feeding them brine shrimp but they were getting expensive to keep buying and a pain in the butt to have to go to the fish store so often (I know, I love the fish store but when you're in there twice a week getting the same thing every time it gets old fast), and brine shrimp aren't very nutritious. So I decided to breed some snails. First I tried apple snails but they just didn't want to get it on. I talked to the LFSO and he said that these guys would multiply like weeds, so I got a few. I ended up with maybe 8 of them. I couldn't feed them to the puffers yet because then I would have nobody to reproduce. Long story short (not so short) as soon as I had my outburst of snails my puffers bit the dust. Now I've got a 20 gal, 10 gal, and 5 gal all overgrown with snails for a combined total of... tons of snails!! And now my LFS doesn't carry puffers anymore. Grrrrrr...

 

[Synirr]

nitro- Yep, they're just common pond snails. The lfs charged me for them though

Are you serious?? My LFS will happily give away handfuls for free. They always get snail stowaways in their live plant shipments, so I always get snails when I buy their plants . Luckily they've been having ramshorn and Malaysian trumpet snails moreso than common pond snails lately... I don't mind those so much. My bettas eat the ramshorn eggs and keep the population down, and I actually like the trumpet snails; they do a good job of keeping my gravel clean.
Edit: Oh... and neither of those types eat my plants as badly as those troublesome pond snails. Grrrr.

 

[cutechic]

That sucks, myenigmaself. Can't your lfs specially order some more puffers?

Yeah Synirr, they charge me. I've got a few more lfs I could go to for snails (I don't if if they charge for them, too), but this one is more convenient. Hopefully they'll reproduce so I don't have to keep buying more (I'll probably regret saying that! ). They haven't been eating the plants yet *touch wood*.