Pagoda snail breeding

Anyone have experience with pagoda snails breeding? All the research I have done is all over the place and ranges from small group births to large birthings once a year.

I got my pagoda in February. It was mislabeled at the LFS and it took me a while to find out exactly what it is, but there is no question that it is a pagoda. A few weeks after introducing it, the tank started to have baby snails, about 25-30 of them from what I was able to count. It seems as if most of them have survived. This seems to be consistent with the large birthing information I have found, but I just looked in the tank a few minutes ago, and there are at least a dozen brand new babies on the glass. There is no question that this is a new set of babies and not part of the first group. There is only one adult snail in the tank, the 20-25 of the original birthing that have survived, but are not mature yet, but all the information I can find says they need a male and a female to breed. There is also a nerite in the tank along with an army of shrimp 9 xray tetra and 7 panda cories.

Can anyone provide any insight on what is going on? The only consistent thing I have found is that pagodas are difficult to breed.

 

I've had a group of Pagodas for two years now, and I haven't seen a single baby. Very interested in where this thread goes.

 

Maybe pagoda knows??

 

Maybe pagoda knows??

Erm.....sorry....can't help with snails unless they are pesky pests that need to be obliterated and fed to Cories

 

Erm.....sorry....can't help with snails unless they are pesky pests that need to be obliterated and fed to Cories

Oh I thought since your name was pagoda you know about pagoda snails lol

 

popping to the top to see if anyone can answer who hasn't seen it.

Upon a further counting over the weekend, I got to 38 newer baby snails before I lost count. From what I can tell there are still in the 20-25 range from the first batch of babies from a few months ago.

 

Pagoda snails have never been bred in captivity successfully. Can you post some pictures of the baby's? They are probably hitchhiker snails. Pagoda snails need fast, highly oxygenated water to breed or live very long. One person with a highly oxygenated tank made just for pagoda snails got them to have babies but they died before they became adults.