Ramshorn Snail Appreciation Thread
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I have that problem with sera shrimp pellets lol, every snail in the tank will cram around in a huge cluster of snails, I have to spread some around for the shrimp after the snails have bombarded the first lot lol.
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They go after the sera shrimp pellets very fast lol, I haven't found this with any other foods, it's like they smell it from the other side of the tank and put their little jet packs on layful: Also, I had some new pink snails (and also the golden one I mentioned previously) in separate isolation boxes feeding them 1 pellet per snail each day, and I'm amazed how fast they've grown! They've been laying a heap of eggs too, in just a few days the tiny golden one doubled in size and has already laid 4 egg sacks
Oh wow! I’ve never tried to separate any of them from each other. Except for grabbing random ones for my friend and then for my betta tank.
I haven't before either, the new ones are in the isolation box while I try to remove the last of the red and brown ones I had in that tank previously (I'm just down to tiny baby ones that I scrape off the glass with a net each night). When I get them all out the tank the new pink ones can then go free. The golden one I intentionally separated though, trying to get eggs from just that one snail, as it was a color mutation from my other tank of only pink and blues I'm hoping to get some interesting colored babies from it, or at least some more golden ones As of today there's now 6 egg sacks from the golden one
Nice Yeah I had red and brown, and pink and blue in separate tanks but my red and brown were breeding too fast and no one wanted them lol. I sell a lot of pink and blue though and they also breed slower for some reason. The new pinks I have came from a different source so will see how they go instead of the red and brown in my other tank
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Those look awesome! What color are they? They look white in the photo, and if they are, they'd be a new color mutation. Really cool
Usually about 2 weeks I think, but it probably depends on a few things like temperature or how many eggs are in each lot (I'm guessing if there's lots of eggs, they'll eat their way out of the egg sack quicker etc).
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they're transparent with a pink body, it's super neat! I have assassin snails right now but I have seen a few of those guys wandering around, so when I see one again I'll net it out and keep it.
I'm not sure if it's just the lighting, but they do look like something rather special The 'pinks' do technically have a clear shell and pink body, but they look much more pink / pale pink as a whole, yours might have a clear shell but it looks a lot more milky white (at least in the photos anyway), so they could get even whiter shells as adults, so I'd definitely save some and put aside, even just a little isolation box in your tank would work
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I don't know too much about ramshorns, so I had no clue. thanks, I have a little bin I use for quarantine, I'll put them in there.
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Hi, I've just newly discovered this thread. Glad to know I'm not the only one who likes ramshorn snails.
My blues have just produced their first youngsters and I'm ridiculously pleased. I made them some snello which they seem to like but I'm wondering how on earth to handle the snails without coming to grief. I'm due to move the adults back to mynewly cycled tank and I want to avoid disaster.
I loved the blues but I didn't know there was such a rainbow of colour choice
My blues have just produced their first youngsters and I'm ridiculously pleased. I made them some snello which they seem to like but I'm wondering how on earth to handle the snails without coming to grief. I'm due to move the adults back to mynewly cycled tank and I want to avoid disaster.
I loved the blues but I didn't know there was such a rainbow of colour choice
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I'm having a panic! Monday night I moved my two adult blue ramshorns from their quarantine tank where they'd been living while I cycled the main tank. The move seemed to go well but I got home tonight and found them at the bottom, not moving. The only other occupants of the tank are a clutch of 6 WC minnows which were also new on Monday afternoon. Any ideas? These are the first snails I've had so I'm a bit at a loss - they were doing so well.
I'm not too sure but the minnows may be picking on them? Some fish do. Or there may be something they're not liking with your water parameters?, you can try taking them out and just putting in a small container with fresh treated tap water (change the water daily and they'll be fine, even in a tiny container, just feed pellets and/or veggies), until you work out what's going on with the tank water or something in the tank. I once had something like a small piece of Texas Holey rock which was killing them, still no idea why but they seemed to be eating it as well. They're not normally fussy at all with water conditions, but occasionally the oddest thing can affect them, it's figuring out what that can be the tricky part, but my guess is the fish may be harassing them. You could try feeding them a bit extra to keep them busy if that's the case.
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Assassins schooling with Corys
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Sorry thought it was snail appreciation hahaha. There guys don't appreciate ramshornsAssassins schooling with Corys
Not sure, is the tank definitely cycled? Maybe give it a bit longer or do a 50% water change and see if they start moving about?
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I'm relieved to say I got home yesterday and both my blues seem fine. I decided to hoik them out of the tank into a separate container as recommended. I didn't want them to have expired and pollute the tank. I put a wafer in just in case, got in last night and one was halfway up the side of the glass, the other was waggling his antennae at me. I have returned them to what is obviously now going to be the 'snail tank' at least temporarily.
Any recommendations for me if I decide to attempt to reintroduce them to the big tank? I recently purchased a fry keeper and I wondered if I should pop them in that initially.
Any recommendations for me if I decide to attempt to reintroduce them to the big tank? I recently purchased a fry keeper and I wondered if I should pop them in that initially.
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I’ll second that. I am trying to get to my 50 posts so I can give away the crazy amount of extra snails that exploded in population. Mostly ramshorn and mystery snails. It was so much fun to watch them hatch and grow, and now it’s time for them to leave the nest!
It's funny that you mention that, I recently had some new pinks in a breeding box, and they were doing amazing in there -growing really fast and laying heaps of eggs. I was feeding them shrimp pellets mostly. They were just in the breeding trap while I removed the other baby red and brown snails from that tank. I've nearly got rid of them all, so released the new pinks out into the main tank. The weird thing is, they started acting like yours -laying on the bottom and not really moving. I thought it could be a temperature thing as the main tank would be colder than the small breeding box. I left them be as it's the same water (although I had just done my usual large water change). A few days later, and they've been moving about, but not as much as normal. I think possibly sometimes they just get really sensitive to a new environment for no apparent reason.
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Yay! More Ramshorn lovers! Sure wasn't expecting to see this when I joined.
I LOVE these guys! I always wanted to grow a big one like I use to see in pet stores when I was a kid but could never get them to thrive in my community tank. Now, years later when my local store no longer deliberately supplies them, I'm getting them to grow like crazy!
I had to go to ten different fish stores in a 70 mile radius to get just 8 tiny leopard rams. No joke! Took 'em home, dumped 'em unceremoniously in a cycling tank completely expecting them to die and... none did! Come to find out they LOVE my hard water and my bad habit of over-feeding my fish, lol!
Two turned out to be blues, which I isolated and bred, and the second generation has some strong leopard patterning against a silvery opaque shell. I can't wait to see what they'll look like in another month.
Here is a great pic of one of my original browns. I'm working on raising up a few more like him, too, or maybe darker. (Still tryingbto get a good pic of the blues.)
Eventually I'm wanting the whole color collection of rams... My hubby and I have already thought of some fun "snail apartment" tanks, lol.
I LOVE these guys! I always wanted to grow a big one like I use to see in pet stores when I was a kid but could never get them to thrive in my community tank. Now, years later when my local store no longer deliberately supplies them, I'm getting them to grow like crazy!
I had to go to ten different fish stores in a 70 mile radius to get just 8 tiny leopard rams. No joke! Took 'em home, dumped 'em unceremoniously in a cycling tank completely expecting them to die and... none did! Come to find out they LOVE my hard water and my bad habit of over-feeding my fish, lol!
Two turned out to be blues, which I isolated and bred, and the second generation has some strong leopard patterning against a silvery opaque shell. I can't wait to see what they'll look like in another month.
Here is a great pic of one of my original browns. I'm working on raising up a few more like him, too, or maybe darker. (Still tryingbto get a good pic of the blues.)
Eventually I'm wanting the whole color collection of rams... My hubby and I have already thought of some fun "snail apartment" tanks, lol.
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With reference to my earlier bladder snail problem I gather copper sulfate might be an option to euthanise them. Anyone tried this? There are no fish in this tank and I plan to hoik out any ramshorns fir my main tank but I've nowhere for these bladder snails and I'm too much of a wimp to squash them by hand.
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If your LFS won’t take them, I’ve read that you can put them in the fridge then the freezer. I haven’t tried copper. I don’t have the heart to squish them either. I actually turned my extras into an eBay side hustle, so I’ve been fortunate not to have to euthanize any!
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Anyone with some Loaches or Puffer fish would love to have your problem
Luckily I have both...
What you need to do is find a person or store that needs snail's for their snail eating fish. Place a local ad or post up at your fish store and someone may take them off your hands.
In the meantime, until you have a place for them, pick them out manually and put them in a jar, Tupperware or other container with some tank water to keep them from multiplying in your tank...
Also if your tank doesn't have fish you won't have to worry about being over run by snail's if they don't have anything to eat, so don't feed the tank and they'll die off eventually. Unless of course you have a well established tank with plenty of algae, biofilm and detritus then you can expect to see an explosion.
Keep the lights off and gravel vacuum regularly to remove their food source. I don't recommend poisoning or chemicals and beware of causing a massive die off, the dead and rotting snail's will pollute your tank. I had a massive die off that lead to heavy fish loss as the water quality turned deadly without any warnings.
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I recently moved my blues back into my newly cycled tank and 6 wc minnows. I decided to start them off in a fry net just to be on the safe side but they seemed OK after a couple of days and I liberated them. They went to the bottom of the tank and there they stayed having pulled right back into their shells. They didn't move for days. Tonight I decided return them to the net in the same tank and almost immediately little horns poked out. The fish haven't been bothering them so what gives??
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I tested KH/GH on 12.06 and it was 15 GH and 5 KH - we are a known hard water area. These two were in the same tank before; I removed them when I put it through a full, fishless cycle so the water quality is better than it was. The tank they've been in isn't half so well set up but if they aren't doing well they'll have to go back in. I was hoping to get shot of the quarantine tank because it isn't as good as the main one but we have an infestation of bladder snails in it which I'm looking to get rid of. I do have a small, hexagonal tank tucked somewhere so once the bladder snails are gone I'll have to set it up nicely so they can live in there.
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Just to be safe check your tanks PH... I just went through a PH crash and PH levels were down to 5, possibly lower since 5 is the lowest my tester can read. Also KH and GH were 0.
My tap water is 6.8-7 KH and GH normally between 7-13, but even with regular water changes the PH in the tank never went up. I thought nothing of it and this went on for a prolonged period. One of the signs were snail's laying on the gravel not moving for days.
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