Snail Jello Food Recipe

Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant separating the snails I wouldn't net a fish any more than I had to for any reason. I could just imagine the sickness issues I would have to deal with from disturbing the slime coat so much.
 

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Yeah that stinks about the betta. I really want(ed) to move my shrimp and snails in to my main tank so I could try only having ONE for awhile.. but I don't want to harm my betta in the process. (I'm literally AT the store, shopping for ingredients for this, now I'm
Conflicted). :/
 

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I am heading for the store as soon as I drop my son off. He has to play in the Jazzband at a graduation party. Currently I am sitting in front of the high school with my AC cranked, waiting for them to load up the back of my truck. Then dropping them all off, and then off to the store to get supplies. Gonna check at my one small fish store here to see if they have any mystery snails. Not sure they do. So I may get a couple today. If my son didn't need to be picked up in a couple of hours I would head to the big pet store about an hour away. I don't think I would have enough time.

I did however order that food you suggested WishNixie it should be here in a couple days.
 
I think that was shrimp. Any hole a medium sized mystery snail can go through, so can a betta.
If you separate for feedings, it's much better and easier to separate the snails. Plus you shouldn't feed jello every day, just maybe twice a week. Other times you can just feed veggies.
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Yeah that's what I'm thinking. My betta is trim and lithe, but my Mystery snails are massive, lol.

I am heading for the store as soon as I drop my son off. He has to play in the Jazzband at a graduation party. Currently I am sitting in front of the high school with my AC cranked, waiting for them to load up the back of my truck. Then dropping them all off, and then off to the store to get supplies. Gonna check at my one small fish store here to see if they have any mystery snails. Not sure they do. So I may get a couple today. If my son didn't need to be picked up in a couple of hours I would head to the big pet store about an hour away. I don't think I would have enough time.

I did however order that food you suggested WishNixie it should be here in a couple days.
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Yay! I'm glad you got the invertebrates pellets. Your soon to be snails will Thank you for it.

If you can't find nice mystery snails locally, any time soon, let me know. I have to go to the post office Monday, I can mail you some of mine. (But do you guys know anyone who ships them regularly and successfully? I just want to ask for postage tips before attempting it my first time). I don't want any snail casualties.
 
Making this tonight.... and hoping it turns out okay. :/ I have Alaskan pollock, fresh spinach, zucchini/peas/squash baby food, gelatin, assorted fruit tums.. spirulina amd algae pellets, and tetra color tropical crisps..

I've dubbed it Snell-O, and it looks, and smells... disgusting, lol. I might have thought about throwing up while making it.. just a little bit though, haha. Ew. I feel like I've done it wrong though. :/ I can't decide why though. I Ninja'd the tums, fish crisps, spirulina and algae pellets together... microwaved the baby food.. mixed in the gelatin and calcium powder mix.. Ninja'd the alaska pollock and spinach together, then dumped that in, stirred everything, then added it to the trays, but it just seems.. weird to me, lol. I don't know.... I guess we'll see how it freezes.

So..... if I were to feed this.. say, three times a week, would that be sufficient for the snails as a week's diet? Or not enough? I'm still trying to get the hang on NOT over-feeding.

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Soooo, those in the know.. ..what do you think? Does my SnellO look right? And is feeding the shrimp and snails SnellO three days a week seem a sufficient diet, orrr, should I do SnellO twice a week, and zucchinI twice a week? I'm getting ready to add my snails and shrimp to the big tank, but still a little leery about them mucking up my clean new space, lol..... so I want to make sure I have a feeding schedule down-ish once everyone is together.

Well.. Ew. lol. Clearly filling my ice cube trays up only half way, and cutting them in half again, and only feeding half.. might still be a bit too much. It looks like Chernobyl in my aquarium. lol.. Either my consistency must be off... or "gel food not being messy" is subjective, haha.

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I will say, however.. that everyone seems to enjoy it. Half of my snails are off fornicating after their feast. I know they've already had their dinner, because they have Snello all over their feet, lol.
 
I still haven't went to the store. Had so much going on to get there. Will probably go tomorrow after my dr appt. At some point I need to make this stuff. Lol

Ok soooo I made Snell-O! Finally. Lol. I just used all babyfood. They had it on sale 6 for a $5. Got veggies and plain chicken. Figured it was easier than getting beef hearts and chopping it up lol. I added some dried blood worms too. Plus the tums and Knox-gelatin. It's in the fridge now hardening up. Then I will cut it up and freeze it. Should get about 48 pieces or so. Hopefully it sets up. I used 2 packs of the gelatin. Which should easily set up the 4 cups or so of babyfood mixture. I wanted it really firm. So it would be easier to deal with. We shall see if it works out I guess. Lol
 
Yay. You'll have to let me know how it comes out. I'm still not sure I want that kind of mess in the new tank.. but the shrimp and snails have to eat, so we'll have to figure out something. Of course, I's still dragging my feet on putting them IN the new tank. I'm doing my first weekly water change and vacuum on the tank tonight. I don't think it's been quite a full week.. but tonight seemed like a good night to fuss with it. My water paramters were 0/0/40 prior to.. and I did a 75% percent water change.. Filling up now.
 
It is disgusting! I definitely cut the pieces too big. I threw the first frozen piece in and my cories are now giants! Lol the snails did love it too. I went and sucked out all the leftovers with a turkey baster. That way the cories can digest their food, and not actually explode.

It didn't make too much of a mess in my tank. Stayed pretty contained. Maybe you needed to add more gelatin?

So far so good. Happy snails.
 
It is disgusting! I definitely cut the pieces too big. I threw the first frozen piece in and my cories are now giants! Lol the snails did love it too. I went and sucked out all the leftovers with a turkey baster. That way the cories can digest their food, and not actually explode.

It didn't make too much of a mess in my tank. Stayed pretty contained. Maybe you needed to add more gelatin?

So far so good. Happy snails.
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Potentially? Without exact measurements on things.. I always flounder. :/
 

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I have made millions of Jell-O shots. So I have used gelatin quite a bit. I do have a bit of an advantage. Lol

I even think I could have went for 1 more pack of gelatin. But then it may have been too congealed. I had about 3 1/2 cups of the baby food mixture and 2 packs of the Knox gelatin. If that helps at all. For next time lol
 
I have made millions of Jell-O shots. So I have used gelatin quite a bit. I do have a bit of an advantage. Lol

I even think I could have went for 1 more pack of gelatin. But then it may have been too congealed. I had about 3 1/2 cups of the baby food mixture and 2 packs of the Knox gelatin. If that helps at all. For next time lol
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Wellllll I've never made a jellO shot in muh life, lol. So next time you make it.. (and like the results), write down EXACTLY what you used, babyfood ounces etc.. and I will try to duplicate it, lol.
 
It is expected that when I come to a party, I will be bringing Jell-O shots lol they are so easy to make. For holidays I do the fancy layered ones too. Lol

I will write down my recipe next time. Although it is going to be awhile. I made a ton! Lol
 
Darn, haha. I'm not sure I'm impressed with mine. I don't want to have to do vaccuming of any kind, every time I feed my little aquatic zoo, lol. Send me some Jello Shots for Christmas too, haha.
 
So mine contains....

Knox Gelatin(unflavored)

Green bean baby food(lowest sodium possible, highest calcium)

Placo algae wafers

Tums tablets

Cuddlebone chunks(or cleaned and dried eggshells)

Various fish flake foods



First thing I do since I have a mortar and pestle, is powder up the cuddlebone chunks(or eggshells with skin removed and dry), wafers, tums, and fish flake foods together. If I didn't have a mortar and pestle I'd be getting creative... If you do, the wafers are the hardest to crush it seems.

Then I add the knox gelatin powder, crushing and mixing it up together.

So to make knox gelatin the normal way, you're supposed to stir boiling water into the stuff until it thickens. Me, I want a more solid consistency.

I add a little bit of water to the green bean baby food, just enough to where it thins out a bit...

Microwave that mixture till it bubbles a bit, then stir into the powder-mix until it's nice & blended. I pour it right out of the mortar, straight back into the baby food containers that conveniently come with lids... The powder doesn't increase the volume much.

Pop into the fridge, and when it cools down it's good to go.

Half a teaspoon at night in my 2-gallon snail breeder is completely gone by morning, they gobbleitup.

So... What kinda recipes are you guys working with?
 
Hello!

I like your recipe, it seems super simple and quick! Here's mine:

My base is usually a mix of my normal base for my arowana food which is:

• white fish, mostly cod, tilapia, or any white fish that I can find on sale.
• shrimp
• Vitachem
• spirulina
• And if I get free leftovers from the butchers/Asian markets, I'll usually add a bit of beef heart or squid

These are usually scraps from when I'm scraping the bucket and can't make a full freezer sheet

For making it into official jello:

I use 1-1.5 packets unflavored gelatin. Then microwave baby food with 4-6% calcium (usually squash or green beans) with the gelatin. Then I crush all my calcium tablets (I use Tums berry flavors; usually 10) and mix in fish food/pellet crumbs and dust and/or algae wafer crumbs/pieces and mix it with the liquids.

Like I mentioned above, I'll usually make a jello when I'm scraping the bottom of the buckets of my foods (I don't like feeding little itty bitty pieces, its messy, so I blitz them instead ) So sometimes I'll add/swap in mysis, extra brine shrimp (I've always have fry growing) and bloodworms.

If I feel like working, Ill add blitzed veggies too...but I'm also lazy and baby food is a lot easier, plus, my snails get fed fresh veggies once in awhile anyways

I've also have a recipe to make gel food that I could send to people if they wanted food for their snails too (kinda like gel food you buy online).
 
This is interesting! . I have a nerite and right now I'm guessing algae is his food (and boyyy does he have a lot of it) but I will be writing these snail jello recipes down for future.
 
This is interesting! . I have a nerite and right now I'm guessing algae is his food (and boyyy does he have a lot of it) but I will be writing these snail jello recipes down for future.
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Most of them go for algae, but hte more variety the better.
 
Most of them go for algae, but hte more variety the better.
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Ok! . I was also planning on feeding him veggies. Getting kale this week. Do they eat kale? It's organic no pesticides used.
 
Forgot to mention.... My cories love it too

Ok! . I was also planning on feeding him veggies. Getting kale this week. Do they eat kale? It's organic no pesticides used.
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For sure. Cool part of the Gel is how you can throw whatever you want in. Just go w/ small batches & experiment
 

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For sure. Cool part of the Gel is how you can throw whatever you want in. Just go w/ small batches & experiment
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Oh cool! . I wasn't sure. I had heard zucchinI they liked. Ok, this should be fun! I might have nerites in my 55 and I'll have cories and a pleco so maybe all bottom dwellers will like the snello
 
Oh cool! . I wasn't sure. I had heard zucchinI they liked. Ok, this should be fun! I might have nerites in my 55 and I'll have cories and a pleco so maybe all bottom dwellers will like the snello
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Snello, I like it. You might want bigger chunks though :-o. Placos gobble... and the cories obviously dig it... maybe a few chunks in different places so they all get some.
 
Snello, I like it. You might want bigger chunks though :-o. Placos gobble... and the cories obviously dig it... maybe a few chunks in different places so they all get some.
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I saw it on here late last night and liked it myself! Oh wow so yes a few chunks throughout the big tank. Hehe
 
This all so interesting, I had no idea you could make your own snail food with jell-o. Would it be okay to feed these recipes to mystery snails as well?
 
This all so interesting, I had no idea you could make your own snail food with jell-o. Would it be okay to feed these recipes to mystery snails as well?
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Yup! I have mystery snails, and they like the recipes Also, it's not Jell-o, like the human food; you are making a snail safe gel-food using regular unflavored gelatin
 
This is interesting. My question is, how long does snello keep? You keep it frozen right? I'm wondering if a small batch would keep frozen for a long time. I only have 4 nerites, cardinal tetras and a DG. I think the tetras may pick at it as well.
 
This is interesting. My question is, how long does snello keep? You keep it frozen right? I'm wondering if a small batch would keep frozen for a long time. I only have 4 nerites, cardinal tetras and a DG. I think the tetras may pick at it as well.
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I think it would last quite a bit of time in the freezer; I keep mine in the fridge because it still keeps that gel consistency and isn't as hard from the freezer; but I don't think they'll mind anyways.

As for fish; I'd recommend changing the recipe a bit (which isn't hard, you just make it more protein based) or minimalizing feeding as the food can be quite fatty for fish
 
I know! This is so cool! . I was planning on keeping in fridge
 
This all so interesting, I had no idea you could make your own snail food with jell-o. Would it be okay to feed these recipes to mystery snails as well?
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Most likely. Just keep in mind, the base of gelatin+ a little bit of water... You could mix cinnamon toast crunch if you felt like it. Not advised due to sugar, but you get my drift...
Mix stuff in that they already do eat... Iz o-k-to-play
 
Most likely. Just keep in mind, the base of gelatin+ a little bit of water... You could mix cinnamon toast crunch if you felt like it. Not advised due to sugar, but you get my drift...
Mix stuff in that they already do eat... Iz o-k-to-play
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I'm a bit new to the care of the MS and I am so intrigued by all this. I do hear what you're saying lol thank you though.
 

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I just wanted to share my own DIY snail jello, I have tried several recipes from the internet and my snails haven't like them, but this one I made out of my head and my snails love it.

• 1 cup of fresh zucchinI ground up like baby food
• 3 cubes of Tubifex worms
• 1 tbs shrimp pellets
• 1 tbs tropical fish food
• 1/2 tbs hikarI bottem feeder pellets
• 3 Tums strawberry flavor
• 1 1/2 tbs calcium carbonate (powdered eggshells or cuddle bone)
• 1/2 tbs New Life Spectrum cichlid formula
• 1 1/2 packs Knox unflavored gelatin

Put everything but gelatin and zucchinI in a blender and grind until it is a powder. Then add the powder to the zucchinI and mix well.

Put the zucchinI fish food mix in the microwave for 30 to 40 seconds. Then slowly sprinkle the gelatin on top while mixing. Lastly put in ice cube trays in the freezer for 3 to 4 hours.

Hope you liked it, I know it's a lot ingredients but my snails just love it.
 
Okay, so I'm REALLY wanting to make my snails some snail jello!!

I have seen several different recipes, but thought I would ask you guys your opinion on throwing something together with things I have on hand:

Fresh Zucchini, Squash, Baby food (green beans), Knox unflavored, Frozen Spirulina Brine Shrimp, Calcium Carbonate reptile powder w D3, Tropical Flakes, Algae Thins, Tetra Shrimp Wafers, Shrimp Pellets and HikarI Bloodworms.

What would be 2 good recipes to make out of these for added calcium and that my 4 mystery snails would love? I also have 4 Panda Cory Cats so if they like it that's an added bonus!!

Thanks!!

Ok, the calcium carbonate does have D3 in it so from what I'm reading that's a no go? I do have some Tums Ultra, Asst berries. Would that work?
 

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Does anyone have a recipe for snail jello? Or other foods that you feed your mystery snails? I'm looking for a way to get more calcium in their diet. I also have nerites, pond snails and MTS. Should I feed only snail jello for the mystery's or do different kinds of food?
 
I've seen that but I'm not crazy about using Tums in it
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You could probably supplement with something else like crushed calcium tabs if you're not cool with using tums
 

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I've read that a lot of people use Tums in their shrimp tank for added calcium.

I feed my snail tank zucchinI and spinach for calcium.
 
I found mine like spinach leaves best and shrimp pellets. I haven't tried too much of the other stuff. They didnt seem to care for zuchor cucumber. I'm going to guess they all have likes and dislikes. You will find what they love best. That's part of the fun of it.
 
ok. I heard about snail jello. I was told to just make jello with gelatin and add a jar of baby food,etc. So I did. Then I saw this forum on snails an realized that you don’t do it this way. I add 2 cups of water to gelatin and added bloodworms and fish food and baby food then put it in the fridg to gel. Will this still work for the snails?
 
Snails will eat all sorts including gelatin containing fish food and mashed vegetables. If you post a specific recipe it might be helpful to identify any specific issues.
 
That's fine. It's a general purpose recipe that would probably make most fish tank inhabitants happy.

Less water would make a more stable cube. Think Knox Blox.

The baby food should be straight up blended vegetables: carrots/ pumpkin or broccolI / peas for example with no oatmeal or other starch.
 
Got it. Thanks. At least I can use it til the next batch.

I tried the snail jello that I made and it was a hit
 

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