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Posted by Ted Pavlic on June 4, 2008, 10:56 am
Please log in for more thread options In our 29 gallon tank, we have a freshwater puffer that eats pond
snails too quickly for us to establish a snail population there. Once
upon a time, we placed an Apple snail in the tank, but the puffer ate
pieces of it so slowly that it was too painful to watch.
So, we picked up a 6 gallon Eclipse tank from a friend and are using
it to grow feeder pond snails. To add some color to the tank, we've
added two Apple snails that evidently are male and female. Because the
Eclipse tank has a large lid that closes the tank off, we thought that
the Apple snails wouldn't have enough room to lay eggs out of the
water.
This week, we noticed hundreds of Apple snail babies in the water with
our pond snails, but we had not ever noticed an egg sac. After some
investigation, we found that at night when the light turns off, the
female apple snail has been crawling into the DOME-SHAPED LID and
laying her eggs up ABOVE and BESIDE the light. So, we now have two
large egg sacs that will hatch any day now.
DOES ANYONE have a suggestion about HOW to control the Apple snail
population in this Eclipse tank? The problem is the convex and hollow
lid.
Thoughts? --
Ted
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Posted by Ted Pavlic on June 4, 2008, 3:39 pm
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> Yep, a freshwater puffer is a misnomer, and they are only freshwater
...
> freshwater types.
Thanks for your response, but my question had nothing whatsoever to do
with the puffer. The puffer is fine in the 29 gallon freshwater tank,
and it has been for years.
My question is about the Apple snails (also known as "(colored)
mystery snails") in my SECOND 6 gallon Eclipse tank that I use for
raising feeder pond snails.
Because the Eclipse tank comes with everything built into the lid, the
lid has a HUGE CONVEX HOLLOW DOME shape that EVIDENTLY is a great
substrate for Apple snail egg sacs.
If the silly Eclipse tank was like my 29 gallon tank, with a flat
cover just above the water's surface, the Apple snail population would
be self controlled because the snails would have no place to attach
the eggs.
I'm looking for suggestions about how to control the Apple snail
population. The pond snails reproduce quickly enough to satisfy my
puffer feeding needs, and so I don't need hundreds of small Apple
snails too.
Thanks --
TEd
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Posted by Ted Pavlic on June 4, 2008, 4:34 pm
Please log in for more thread options > > Also note that we've never had a problem feeding the puffer. It eats
> > snails, worms, and about everything else that we've heard is normal
> > for a (freshwater) puffer.
>
> Well in a way my reply had to do with care and feeding of =A0the puffer
> without the need to fiddle with apple snails or any other snail that
> can get our of control fairly easily. A few large nassarus snails that
> have young in a marine environement would be all that puffer ever
> needed...but evidently the "correct and propper" way to care for those
> puffers is not a concern of yours.
I am giving the proper care of that puffer. It is a freshwater puffer.
It isn't a brackish puffer. You're correct that many fish stores
market brackish buffers as freshwater puffers, but this fish *IS* a
FRESHWATER species. I'm sure this puffer would TOLERATE brackish
water, but PROPER care would be to put it in a freshwater environment
(like mine). I'm not having a problem with the puffer. It's a
freshwater puffer, and it's a freshwater tank.
The Apple snails are *NOT* meant to be feeder snails. I *LIKE*
invertebrates. I especially like invertebrates like Apple snails that
have very different characteristics. I CHOSE Apple snails BECAUSE of
their amphibious characteristics -- that was what was going to control
their population. In fact, apple snails are preferred for aquariums
SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE they lay their eggs out of the water -- it makes
it easy to control their population provided that you don't have some
silly Eclipse tank.
I appreciate your help with the puffer. I just don't need it. I'm
looking for some novel advice on what to do with a crappy Eclipse
tank.
Thanks --
Ted
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Posted by Ex Pat on June 4, 2008, 6:49 pm
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snip
=2E I'm
> looking for some novel advice on what to do with a crappy Eclipse
> tank.
>
> Thanks --
> Ted
Toss it in the freaking trash then! Buy a decent tank they are
cheap.problem solved!
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Posted by Ted Pavlic on June 5, 2008, 7:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options > What are you feeding them? Mine never lived more than a week.
Here's a decent site discussing Apple snail diet (and other
conditions):
http://www.applesnail.net/content/care.php
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