I recently started feeding shrimp pellets by Omega One and the HikarI Sinking Pellets (in the orange bag) to my plecos and corys, and my mysteries have discovered they love the stuff! They refuse to touch the food they used to go crazy for! haha Mine have never been a huge fan of zucchini, they basically just crawl around it. Maybe yours will like the pellets, too!emmysjj said:I have a mystery snail and I got him around 3-4 months ago. I'm concerned he isn't eating enough. He can sometimes be pretty lethargic and not move for days. I used to plunk an algae wafer in the tank and call it that, and sometimes give zuchinni. I know he needs protien, i'm working on it. How do I get him to eat?
Here are some links for chewy, good luck!emmysjj said:Thanks! Link?
Yes, and they look adorable slurping them up!emmysjj said:Do freeze dried bloodworms work?
Zypher023 said:It’s really easy and lasts forever! I thought it was complicated too. This recipe worked for me:
1 jar baby food (4oz)
1 packet of gelatin
1 tbsp calcium carbonate powder (primary Tums ingredients, but only use plain tums as an alternative, or ground calcium pills with no added ingredients or vitamin D)
Edit: People also add ground up fish food flakes or wafers too. It’s up to you - you don’t need to do that for every single batch.
Heat the baby food until it’s bubbling, stir in the gelatin, stir in the calcium, pour into an ice cube tray, bottom of a Tupperware, or something similar. Let it sit in the fridge for a couple hours and then slice it up and freeze it. Done.
People say it lasts a month frozen, but the FDA says food will last indefinitely in the freezer, it just loses quality. So eventually it won’t be good, but my guess is it lasts a few months.
I’ve also skinned zucchinI slices, put them in a glass bowl in the microwave and pulled them out once they’ve been in boiling water for about a minute or so. Blanch by throwing them into ice water, then freeze them. I laid mine on wax paper in a ziplock so they wouldn’t freeze together, and the next day peeled them all off and threw them in a ziplock in the freezer. Worked perfectly and my mysteries love them. I skewer them on bamboo skewers and just remove them when they’re mostly gone or within 12-24 hours.
I use organic usually if I can find it or at least non-gmo, anything without additives (usually those ones are in jars), nothing citrus, and mainly stick to veggies. The more sugar, the more it can cloud your water and affect water quality. I’ve heard to add a dab of honey next time if they don’t go for it.emmysjj said:What kind of baby food? And thanks.
When I'm making it, I usually toss in a few cubes of the frozen blood worms, or frozen carnivore mixes in addition to the veggies. It's not nearly as much work as it sounds likeDch48 said:These snails also need animal protein. They are not strictly herbivorous like Nerites. The veggies are good but they need the meat protein as well.
That "Snello" just seems like too much work to me.
