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03-06-12, 07:25 PM
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Uncle Brady
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Breeding snails?
Hey guys I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about breeding snails? At my local petsmart there's mystery snails and I was thinking about breeding them for cassie(my savannah monitor) right now I'm only feeding her crickets, night crawlers, with the ocational dubia roach. I don't know if anyone knows anything about this, but when my sav eats them, will she crush the shell? Or swallow it whole? Im going to buy 5 snails tomorrow and place them in a cricket keeper box. I don't think they need any flowing water so this would be good. What would I use for substrate? Would I even need any? I would feed them fish food, or carrots, something like that! How long would it take them to mature? Well big enough for cassie to have a suitable snack! Thanks everyone!
I know I posted on Herp center and Hedy helped me lots! Just wanted to get some info here to! Maybe even Daniel will help! Thanks everyone'
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03-06-12, 07:47 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
Never bred snails, but Cassie will crush them. They love crunchy things.
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03-06-12, 07:53 PM
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Uncle Brady
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Re: Breeding snails?
Sweet! Im gonna start! I'll pick up 5
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03-06-12, 08:07 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
Breeding snails is very simple. Put a few together and you will have babies in no time. Used to be part of my job to breed snails and populations would get outta control in no time.
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03-06-12, 08:09 PM
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Uncle Brady
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Re: Breeding snails?
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Originally Posted by totheend
Breeding snails is very simple. Put a few together and you will have babies in no time. Used to be part of my job to breed snails and populations would get outta control in no time.
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You don't need a filter right?
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03-06-12, 08:28 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
I did use a filter.....they produce a lot of waste. I was breeding Lymnaea stagnalis. They eat also eat alot.....guess that goes with they produce alot of waste....
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03-06-12, 08:31 PM
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Uncle Brady
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Re: Breeding snails?
Yah that's true I might pick up a cheap ken, umm what about substrate? Do I need anything?
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03-06-12, 08:38 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
For substrate I used crushed oyster shell (needs to be rinsed a lot first). And the filter we used was just a cheap one that sat on the bottom of the tank, and we just put some filter floss in with some charcoal. Very cheap to set up. I think that the filter system was $6 or $7
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03-06-12, 08:45 PM
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Uncle Brady
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Re: Breeding snails?
I cant get a filter tht hangs on the side eh
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03-06-12, 08:47 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
I am sure you can. The other ones are just really cheap. And you don't want anything that has too much suction. You will lose all of them. I would find them all over in side the filter....alive.
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03-06-12, 08:53 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
Yah, how long till they get big? Well big enough for my sav to eat
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03-06-12, 09:01 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
I don't know about mystery snails, but with in a few weeks or so they would be adults and breeding.
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03-06-12, 09:02 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
Woah that's sweet!
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03-06-12, 09:16 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
So what I'm breeding is called mystery snails, but I'm pretty sure there apple snails. Takes 4 months to reach sexual matrity I'm pretty sure, but that's not even that long com sideline that will be an endless supply of food! Maybe I can cut out crickets completey
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03-06-12, 09:35 PM
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Re: Breeding snails?
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Maybe I can cut out crickets completey
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In a few months, crickets would be silly anyways. They will be so small compared to her, you would need to give her 100 at a time to even make her happy.
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