Anybody breeding assassin snails ?

[Guppy777]

Setting up a 10 gallon tank with 50 assassin snails, looking to breed them and make a few bucks. Do I need anything besides a sandy bottom and a filter ?

 

[Ghelfaire]

That's a lot of assassins for a 10g tank. Honesty you could start with 3-4 and they'll breed.
They eat meat foods so make sure you have a ton of live pond snails or frozen meaty foods.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Can't get rid of them. Even for free. So making a few bucks ???????

 

[Guppy777]

That's a lot of assassins for a 10g tank. Honesty you could start with 3-4 and they'll breed.
They eat meat foods so make sure you have a ton of live pond snails or frozen meaty foods.

Any examples of frozen meaty foods ?

 

[Ghelfaire]

Any examples of frozen meaty foods ?

Bloodworms, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp

 

[Guppy777]

Bloodworms, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp

raw ground beef ?

Can't get rid of them. Even for free. So making a few bucks ???????

Guys been selling on Amazon for years @ $14-$16 for 5

 

[StarGirl]

raw ground beef ?

No... dont put raw hamburger meat in your tank for snails. Stick to fish foods.

I agree 50 assassin snails is too much for 10g.

 

[Ghelfaire]

raw ground beef ?

Guys been selling on Amazon for years @ $14-$16 for 5

Absolutely not. Raw hamburger isn't aquarium safe. Their diet is snails, pest snails like bladder, pond or ramshorn are the best foods with frozen fish foods like the ones mentioned above being an ok substitute.

 

[Sewerrat]

They'll eat shrimp pellets hardest part of breeding them is getting healthy ones to start. They don't require sand will readily breed with gravel If you perfer. Recommend Starting with 7 to 10 gives you a good chance of getting males and females.

 

[Cameron2585]

I feed mine crab cuisine pellets and occasionally frozen bloodworms and they all come out of the sand within a few seconds. They do take a very long time to breed though with the eggs taking about a month to hatch and the babies then have minimum 6 months until they reach a decent size