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Hi!
It has been awhile since I posted, but I wanted to share my 5 gallon mystery snail nursery! This is where my newly hatched babies spend about 2-3 weeks or slightly larger than pea sized (depending) before moving into a 10 gallon, where they grow to dime sized, to a 30gallon+ tank. There are well established plants and floaters and I add quarantined plants from other tanks as I want.
It has been my best tank to grow out my plants and/or shrimp being picked on, and thus a great home for my snailbies!
They get a 45% water change everyday to combat ammonia and have a bacto surge sponge filter that is rated for up to 40 gallons with a small airstone. There is crushed cuttlebone pieces in the substrate and a floating piece as well. I also will dose the tank once a week with calcium powder/calcium rich foods if testing low. I keep 3-4 types of leaf litter in at a time with some broiled veggies, plants who failed to live, romaine lettuce I grow for them, algae wafers, sinking carnivore wafers, baby brine shrimp, and baby mysis shrimp as some of the foods on constant rotation.
Currently I have about 200-300 snails from 3 different clutches, with 4 more in incubation. I am also currently working on 2- 100gallon (indoor) stock tanks for them too!
Please let me know what you think! Or what works in your nursery?
Side Note: Please don’t mind the small layer of algae wafers dust/debris on the bottom, it had only been in there for an hour when I took my photos!
It has been awhile since I posted, but I wanted to share my 5 gallon mystery snail nursery! This is where my newly hatched babies spend about 2-3 weeks or slightly larger than pea sized (depending) before moving into a 10 gallon, where they grow to dime sized, to a 30gallon+ tank. There are well established plants and floaters and I add quarantined plants from other tanks as I want.
It has been my best tank to grow out my plants and/or shrimp being picked on, and thus a great home for my snailbies!
They get a 45% water change everyday to combat ammonia and have a bacto surge sponge filter that is rated for up to 40 gallons with a small airstone. There is crushed cuttlebone pieces in the substrate and a floating piece as well. I also will dose the tank once a week with calcium powder/calcium rich foods if testing low. I keep 3-4 types of leaf litter in at a time with some broiled veggies, plants who failed to live, romaine lettuce I grow for them, algae wafers, sinking carnivore wafers, baby brine shrimp, and baby mysis shrimp as some of the foods on constant rotation.
Currently I have about 200-300 snails from 3 different clutches, with 4 more in incubation. I am also currently working on 2- 100gallon (indoor) stock tanks for them too!
Please let me know what you think! Or what works in your nursery?
Side Note: Please don’t mind the small layer of algae wafers dust/debris on the bottom, it had only been in there for an hour when I took my photos!
