I've got a question: have you done any research on snail genes? Are the baby snails most likely to look like their father or mother? I ask because I recently added an old albino or white snail into a tank with two new snails (one white and one darker shell with white body still) and the two white shells are very actively coupling. The older white guy came from acidic tank and has shell corrosion but is still going strong. ;) Their babies would tend to be white, right? If the brown shell and white shell mate would there be a mixup of colors or would they produce dark shell and white shells separately? Great looking snails, btw. I might be interested in some blue skin or dark(purple) skin? Also, I'm going to look up magenta mystery snails.
sorry i didnt see this till now, i think we already spoke about this. Just for the record in my experience darker colors seem to be dominant genes , but yes you will get a mix of offspring, browns in my experience have the most dominant genes probably because it is a wild genetic formed over millions of years vs the newer line bred genetics like purples golds and blues ect..
Hi, I’ve only gone 8 minutes into your video and I just want to tell you that I have had my mystery snails for 6 months; never had a fish tank before this. 10. Gallon tank (no heater) and my snails had three batches. All I did was leave them (eggs) where they were hatched above the water line and misted them 2-3 times a day. I ended up with over 400 babies! (I kid you not)! No heater, no checking ph or anything, just kept my tank clean by changing water every 2-3 weeks (tap). I did another 10 gal tank because my mystery snails kept laying eggs and they all hatched! Their eggs were traded at the aquarium store for food, live plants, algae, and calcium for them and my guppies. Had to get a 3rd tank because my guppies had numerous babies also. No previous experience whatsoever. Just did what I felt they’d be happy with. I live in New England and never had a problem. Be safe and happy hatching! 😊🐌🐟
If you don't mind I want to add in some information. If you have a lid like a glass one and you can easily see condensation on it then you shouldn't remove the eggs. Also I've noticed they will lay them any where, like I had one lay on the actual lid facing down. (Note: it was cool cause you could actually see inside one of them. Only one tho). Also if you are running a full on breeding run with multiple generations, I suggest having Orange Sword Tails (I probably misidentified them) with them as the Orange Sword Tails will eat the dead bodies of the snail and leave the shells behind to add Calcium and when the Sword Tails die, the snails eat them. Also if you are doing Blue Mystery Snails, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ADD CALCIUM. I've noticed the Blue Mystery Snails without calcium develop and ugly Paige/Brown that can only be compared to like apple sauce. Also do not freak out if you see a long tube coming out of them going to the surface, that is a breathing tube and it usually comes out when they are being moved from a small tank to a large tank. (Note: I discovered this when I upgraded to a 55 and my first Black Mystery Snail used her tube to stretch out 3 feet towards the surface.) Last thing is don't assume because two snails are getting fancy with each other that the bottom one is a female. I've seen plenty of times where two dude snails will get it on.
all information and experience is gladly welcomed! i have had mine lay on lids facing down as well , it is pretty cool, though my hatching success rates are much better when i use an incubator , i just prefer it since its easier to control the process
Just had my first clutch hatch naturally inside the tank last night. Pretty swiftly made a floating incubator. It took forever to get those tiny snails to safety. Like hourssss...
i got mystery snails on a whim and have loved them! Just caught them doin the do today so I’m frantically trying to learn all i can about snail breeding / hatching and this video has been so helpful thank you!!!
I like that you titled the video, "Everything I know about breeding mystery snails". So many people make videos and they act like they KNOW it all! I have gotten so much great and so much awful advice on here. That's why I can appreciate your title. It's very honest. Subscribing. 👍😉 (Obviously that's not the only reason I'm subscribing. Very informational video. Thanks!!)
thanks! yea i think thats was the idea when naming the video, there are alot of really good and useful videos out there like rachel o'leary's , and this is really just my perspective and experience with them.
I find using whole bits of coral as decor can help with raising hardness, but not overwhelm the fish. The crushed coral raises it a lot because it has a stupid high surface area for the water to break it down, but whole rocks have nowhere near that amount of surface area and breakdown much slower. Also if you have high PH water the breakdown will be even more slow, if your ph is above 7.5 it won't be that big a change. If it's acidic or slightly basic you might want to still be careful.
Great video Kyle. Really enjoy to see your fishroom! evolve, looks great. You are "right on money" with the part about them escaping if you dont feed them enough. :-D
I have a tank with only mystery snails. They breed like crazy but I'm leaving the eggs in since there are no fish in the tank. The question I have is if some of the egg clusters fall in the water can I leave it there? I know that the eggs will drown but can it be used as a source of calcium for the others to feed on?
I didn't even know what was happening till I had 50 little snails. I just leave them alone. It is really cool when they're on the glass lid & you can watch them develop.
Another source for clcium you can use those cuttle fish "bones" for birds. All you have to do is remove it from the package, do not use the metal holder, and drop it into the tank. The snails, and shrimp too, will feed off of it as needed. You can also blanche and cool off spinach and kale, both high in calcium, and add those as food to your tank.
i do use cuttle bones , but have found the mystery snail dont eat it for whatever reason, i no just use the vacation feeders since they are mainly calcium and the snails eat those preety well
A lot of good information, I appreciate you sharing it with us. I just got 5 clutches and I’m new to all of this, so this video really helped me with the steps I need to take. Thank you!
I have had several clutches of eggs, thus various sizes. When they get of breeding age, have an outlet to sell or give them away. One clutch can have over 200 babies and they grow fast when well fed. So I became a breeder. I trade to fish store for fish and other things I need for my other fish tanks
So glad I found your channel! I'm basically new. Been enjoying mystery snails for over a year. Had two clutches hatch in the same tank they were laid in. The ones that glided onto the glass, I removed into a goldfish bowl with a small sponge filter. Had about 70 grow out big enough to put back into the original tank. They've done well. Now they're laying clutches. I have 4 now. Each one larger than the last. The first one has been hanging up where she laid it. For a little over 2 weeks. This morning it was missing. I found it laying on the bottom of the tank. And there were about 12 little white baby singe floating pod looking babies with what looks like sort of a sperm tail. Do I leave them all, clutch and all in the tank? Or should I take the fallen clutch and little single guys out and incubate them further. The clutch still looks pink not dark is mold color at all. Help. And thank you again. You're video has really taught me alot I needed to know. You're awesome!
I have a zero percent success rate when trying to incubate, but have been wildly successful with just letting the eggsack do its thing on the tank wall. But, my hatchery tank does have a properly fitted lid and the temperature in the tank is very warm (80 to 82F), so just a matter of having a tank that can keep in that heat and humidity.
Dang bro that was a lot of information to take in at once. Great video man i have never really been a snail guy but i think i understand them a lot more now.
I have a large Pleco she is about a foot & a half. She was not mean to my snails. But when she would clean the glass & surfaces she would not see the snails & knock them off things & scare them. So they started to hide a lot more seemed more timid. So in my experience the Plecos arnt mean but they do cause a lot of stress. Hope i could help!
Hi Kyle are you still active on this channel or anywhere on social media? I found your video very very helpful and I had a few more questions. Please let me know thank you!
I love how your utilising your totes😉 tote aquariums are fun and so multipurpose it's crazy. Love the video, I will have to add calcium. to the mystery snail diet
Help? I've had my mystery snails for a month or so and the first batch of their eggs have hatched, but one of the babies shells is like a ramshorn snail and the face is shaped differently. It's the same size as the other hatchlings and I for sure only have the apple/mystery snails so what could be going on? They are the purple ones if that matters, and it's only one baby like this out of about 40 snails.
no idea... how big are they ? it might be a ramshorn depending on whats in the tank, plants? other items that may have trasfered it? i have never seen anything like what your describing. you can email ( my about section ) me a photo and i can see if that helps diagnose but ide bet its a ramshorn
So I wake up and I see 6 baby snails so far and I didn’t see eggs or nothing 🙄 and I only got one I bought from the pet store 2 months ago please explain
Hi question do you cook or heat the can green beans for the mystery snails or is it ok to throw those in the tank straight out if the can room temperature?? 🐌
I can’t remember if you said if you can put the power in the water I have a beta fish in mine but it’s a 20 gallion take like 7 snails but I just had a eggs but I also want to take care of the ones I just bought
I some how lucked out and got 1 male and two female mystery snails. They where have been housed together in a hospital tank while I treated my 40 breeder for over a week. I did see mating going on. I have 2 clutches of eggs I'm floating one. I'm going to remove and float it as well. I wasn't going to thank you so much for the info.
My God. My spell check is horrible. I can't thank you enough for for showing me. I do have a question. My snails are laying back to back. I was told that apple snails do not do this. Maybe I have always had boys, but I now have 5 clutches. The three of them all mated again. It's only been a few days in between. I'm worried for them. I know that takes alot out of my females. Lil girl blue has such a big hole in her shell. I bought her like that. They where going to throw her away. In my book everyone and everything gets a chance no matter how bad off or sick they are. But now my male is on his side and bladder snails are crawling on him, and Goldie locks has moved. Is this normal for these guys? I can't get a good answer on if forum. Ppl are telling me everything I do wrong and not how to actually care for them and help be healthy. I feed them beans from a can every day. What else can I do for them? I'm not sure on my water hardness. It hard but in the safe range. My pH is constant between 7.4-7.9 depends on the time of day.
if they are developing shell problems it is either dietary or environment. if your water is soft or low in kh that can be an issue, you can add crushed coral to the substarte to buffer it, if it is dietary adding foods high in calcium will help, like weekend or vacation fish feeders or crayfish foods
i see my mystery snails mating frequently but they never laid eggs, the first time they were observed mating was 2-3 months ago. I have ammonia 0 ppm, nitrite 0 ppm nitrate 100 ppm. The hardness is 28 GH, pH 8. Water volume 50 liters. They are fed every 2 days with a salad leaf or 2 slices of cucumber. I have 11 snails. What's wrong?
While I am only just getting started as a breeder, the first pair of golden mystery snails that kicked me off, which should be about the same age, are also basically the exact same size. The only way I figured out which one was the female was that after separating them, the tank that had the eggsacks was obviously the tank containing the female. I see suggestions that females are a bit darker colored on the whirl, but no, not in my case, my male is darker in the whirl. Size doesn't distinguish them at all. There are no outward distinguishing qualities at all between them. I just got a bit lucky that the female ended up in the tank she did, as the couple of eggsacks laid in the initial tank where they were together had very little success in hatching, I only got 7 snails out of I think it was 5 egg sacks laid in that tank. Then I got ~650 babies hatched out in the tank she ended up in. So clearly the second tank was a lot more suited to hatching eggsacks than the initial tank!
full grown adult size , so females will get about 1.5 inches roughly in diameter before they lay and males will need to be at least 1in , size if not bigger to fertilize them. females max out around 2.5 + inches in diameter and males max out at 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter, by diameter i mean if you were to place them in said circle size there shell would touch the edges.
This is so helpful! Bought "no salt added" green beans right after watching. The cans state "No salt added" has 15mg sodium vs 330mg for regular. In years of raising snails, I have never had a snail crawl out of the tank. Wondering if salinity has increased? I also use AquaticBlendedFoods Mini Veggie Sticks with Added Calcium after using Omega One veggie discs for years - very messy just like you said. Thanks for great info on snails:)
Great Video, Kyle. One suggestion: you make the same mistake I do when I video - you move the camera WAY too fast! This makes the viewers head jerk around trying to follow your views.
ahh yea i know .. i have a gimbal for that problem and ill start using it again, it makes for much smother shots but is harder to point the camera where you want it to go, since its being controlled by a gimbal. but thanks for the heads up ill be sure to work on that in my future videos.
When it comes to calcium, I have never tried a snello, or used egg shells, or the like. I have lots and lots of cuttlefish bone in my tanks, I add some powdered calcium carbonate from time to time (find it in the hermit crab section of your fish store!), and Hikari crab treats which are very popular with the snails. So my snails get calcium both in the water and as food. Haven't had a single bad shell yet. Would be nice if fish stores would figure out to sell these products as snail and shrimp items in addition to bird (cuttlefish bone) and crab items. Kind of weird I have to go to so many different parts of the pet store to get the things I need just for snails.
hey man great video and info. I'd like to ask a question if I may. here's my setup, African cichlid tank, about 8 of them juveniles, 2 cray fish, 3 mystery snails, 1 pleco. I generally toss some broccoli in tank and pleco wafers which the cray fish love. I feed sinking shrimp pellets for calcium for the crayfish and snails mainly, so they can shift through the gravel for the tiny remains. I do this in am then in PM I feed cichlid gold sinking pellets which has a bunch of veggies protein. should I be doing something different ? my snails move around at night but I always see them just in side their shells closed up. on occasion I will see one going up tank. dunno if they are trying to breed or escape. thanks in advance for any input
they might be trying to lay eggs.... but they also breath air so they go to the surface to breath as well. if they are hiding alot in the day time or just in general it may be your fish, most fish will eat their antenna and even their eyes so in defense they may hide untill they starve sometimes. you can always try them in another tank or even a tub and see if the behaviour changes after a week or so .
my snail just layed eggs 2 days ago. how long do we keep the snails in the incubator after the snails come out of their egg? i have never had snails so i need help asap!!!!
sorry for the delayed response... as soon as they hatch they can go in the water or they can stay there and eat the egg casing for a day , then they need food at which time they can go in a tank. also FB has some great snail groups if you run into issues that need faster responses in the future
Kyles Wild World no worries, i understand! one night they were having trouble to get out of the clutch so i did break it open and got all of them out. i put them in the water right away and they started to move right away! i feed them canned carrots and they eat them so fast!! everything has been looking super great lately and they are growing so fast! thankyou for everything!
I have hard water and I've noticed the snails will feed on the hard water stains at the top of the aquarium; they haven't laid eggs yet, but I assume it helps their calcium needs. That said, I have two snails, and found both of them on the floor today (they survived though). They've been fine enough ever since I got them about a month ago, but I also just recently got some otto's for better clean up. I had them eating a bit of cooked cabbage a few days ago but haven't fed them since. It does seem that one is male and one is female even though they're both about the size of a large grape or cherry, because lately I keep finding one latched on top of the other for a few hours just over the opening of the other snail's shell. Don't know if they want food due to lack of food because of otto's, or if they're trying to lay eggs.
the colors? yes they do, i have some chestnuts which are browns and yellows mixed, i am hoping for jades ,blues and yellows mixed. but like all genetics there are dominant and recessive genes. they are all the exact same species so you can interbreed, as for getting colors you would like, that requires an understanding of their dominant and recessive genes, which colors are the strongest genetically and then working on it.
A female can store sperm for sever months before laying eggs. If she was kept at the pet store with a male she could lay fertilized eggs several months after being separated. Keep in mind theyll also sometimes lay infertile eggs.
Do I understand you that the eggs sit on a wet sponge to incubate? People say a lot of things, but I don't know if they are supposed to be dry and humid, or wet and humid...
My gold inca has been up near the water line for 4 days! No eggs. Last night she moved a couple inches along the water line. What's up? Previously she was all over the place chowing down.
I just adopted two blue mystery snails from my staff member. And now I'm trying to learn as much as possible about breeding them. Because of how I want to correctly breed them and sell them. Thank you so much for your video it's helpful.
Hi- I changed my water yesterday and now all my snails are mostly lifeless... but partly out of their shell and have a lot of mucous attached to them. They look really sick- is there anything I can do? I changed the water again as it seems directly correlated with the water change and now nitrate/nitrite/ammonia is all 0 ppm with ph slighly above 7.
Replace all but 2 filters, 25% water change, activated charcoal is a must for the ammonia/nitrites/nitrates to balance 'ecosystem'...rinse filter media in same tank water you take out for water change..balances it all out
Hey I was trying to find a way to message you I have some freshwater snails and just had a question I can't figure out a way so I guess I will just comment my snails seem to be having snex for the last 2 days on and off .. and I'm wondering if that is a good thing or? I visit them regularly seeing as how they are right in the middle of my house lol just wondering if I should be looking for clutches being made in the next 15 days
Hi there, I used to breed these snails when I kept fish & sold babies (snails & fish) to swap for more equipment - I have only seen yellow mysterys here in Perth WA - I'm going to cast about to see if other colours are available but if not, do you ship internationally? Thanks in advance - I hope you're still looking here :)
Hey, :) Thx, seriously great information. Really. Sorry to bother you with more questions. Can you tell a little (or a lot) about your largest Mystery Snail?
If you have any other questions about aquarium snails check out this video by Aquarium Coop! th-cam.com/video/GFhr1ujIeB0/w-d-xo.html
I've got a question: have you done any research on snail genes? Are the baby snails most likely to look like their father or mother? I ask because I recently added an old albino or white snail into a tank with two new snails (one white and one darker shell with white body still) and the two white shells are very actively coupling. The older white guy came from acidic tank and has shell corrosion but is still going strong. ;) Their babies would tend to be white, right? If the brown shell and white shell mate would there be a mixup of colors or would they produce dark shell and white shells separately?
Great looking snails, btw. I might be interested in some blue skin or dark(purple) skin? Also, I'm going to look up magenta mystery snails.
sorry i didnt see this till now, i think we already spoke about this. Just for the record in my experience darker colors seem to be dominant genes , but yes you will get a mix of offspring, browns in my experience have the most dominant genes probably because it is a wild genetic formed over millions of years vs the newer line bred genetics like purples golds and blues ect..
OK I have snail eggs that's on the back bottom of the fish tank that's been there for a while what to do with them because they are not hitching?
Hi, I’ve only gone 8 minutes into your video and I just want to tell you that I have had my mystery snails for 6 months; never had a fish tank before this. 10. Gallon tank (no heater) and my snails had three batches. All I did was leave them (eggs) where they were hatched above the water line and misted them 2-3 times a day. I ended up with over 400 babies! (I kid you not)! No heater, no checking ph or anything, just kept my tank clean by changing water every 2-3 weeks (tap). I did another 10 gal tank because my mystery snails kept laying eggs and they all hatched! Their eggs were traded at the aquarium store for food, live plants, algae, and calcium for them and my guppies. Had to get a 3rd tank because my guppies had numerous babies also. No previous experience whatsoever. Just did what I felt they’d be happy with. I live in New England and never had a problem. Be safe and happy hatching! 😊🐌🐟
I am so thrilled to see your comment. Just new to this and plan to do it - THANK YOU for sharing!! 🙂
The babies from the snails we ordered from you are amazing! We have so many young growing up and in every color imaginable. Thanks again!
awesome to hear!!!!! im very happy they are doing well!
If you don't mind I want to add in some information. If you have a lid like a glass one and you can easily see condensation on it then you shouldn't remove the eggs. Also I've noticed they will lay them any where, like I had one lay on the actual lid facing down. (Note: it was cool cause you could actually see inside one of them. Only one tho). Also if you are running a full on breeding run with multiple generations, I suggest having Orange Sword Tails (I probably misidentified them) with them as the Orange Sword Tails will eat the dead bodies of the snail and leave the shells behind to add Calcium and when the Sword Tails die, the snails eat them. Also if you are doing Blue Mystery Snails, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ADD CALCIUM. I've noticed the Blue Mystery Snails without calcium develop and ugly Paige/Brown that can only be compared to like apple sauce. Also do not freak out if you see a long tube coming out of them going to the surface, that is a breathing tube and it usually comes out when they are being moved from a small tank to a large tank. (Note: I discovered this when I upgraded to a 55 and my first Black Mystery Snail used her tube to stretch out 3 feet towards the surface.) Last thing is don't assume because two snails are getting fancy with each other that the bottom one is a female. I've seen plenty of times where two dude snails will get it on.
all information and experience is gladly welcomed! i have had mine lay on lids facing down as well , it is pretty cool, though my hatching success rates are much better when i use an incubator , i just prefer it since its easier to control the process
Yayyyyy gay snails❤️❤️
#pridemonth lol
@Chris Kibodeaux i believe maybe 3 inches
Just had my first clutch hatch naturally inside the tank last night. Pretty swiftly made a floating incubator. It took forever to get those tiny snails to safety. Like hourssss...
i got mystery snails on a whim and have loved them! Just caught them doin the do today so I’m frantically trying to learn all i can about snail breeding / hatching and this video has been so helpful thank you!!!
I like that you titled the video, "Everything I know about breeding mystery snails". So many people make videos and they act like they KNOW it all! I have gotten so much great and so much awful advice on here. That's why I can appreciate your title. It's very honest. Subscribing. 👍😉 (Obviously that's not the only reason I'm subscribing. Very informational video. Thanks!!)
thanks! yea i think thats was the idea when naming the video, there are alot of really good and useful videos out there like rachel o'leary's , and this is really just my perspective and experience with them.
I find using whole bits of coral as decor can help with raising hardness, but not overwhelm the fish. The crushed coral raises it a lot because it has a stupid high surface area for the water to break it down, but whole rocks have nowhere near that amount of surface area and breakdown much slower. Also if you have high PH water the breakdown will be even more slow, if your ph is above 7.5 it won't be that big a change. If it's acidic or slightly basic you might want to still be careful.
"walk around, slide around, whatever.." LMAO
good video man, it was all good!
Thank you for sharing that great information. Sorry that Guppy ate your snail. :(
Infinite Awareness lol
An easy calcium supplement that I use for my snails is tums. I haven’t seen much change in TDS, gh, or kh. It works for me! Cool video!
How long does it take from newborn egg to hatched, to adult?
Tums?? The antiacid?
@@exefile6299 well it is Calcium Carbonate
Great video Kyle. Really enjoy to see your fishroom! evolve, looks great. You are "right on money" with the part about them escaping if you dont feed them enough. :-D
Man thank you!!! I have tried so many strategies of others and never works, really thinking this will do the trick! ❤
I've never had to take the clutches out to hatch them, they always hatch on their own, then they make their way down into the water.
Great info on snails
thanks!
I have a tank with only mystery snails. They breed like crazy but I'm leaving the eggs in since there are no fish in the tank. The question I have is if some of the egg clusters fall in the water can I leave it there? I know that the eggs will drown but can it be used as a source of calcium for the others to feed on?
Is the entire clutch a single color of shell?
I didn't even know what was happening till I had 50 little snails. I just leave them alone. It is really cool when they're on the glass lid & you can watch them develop.
Awesome I did that to my heater. Nice to see the pros still do that :p
cool idea with green beans. I am new to mystery snails. do you have to strain them or boil? thanks!
Another source for clcium you can use those cuttle fish "bones" for birds. All you have to do is remove it from the package, do not use the metal holder, and drop it into the tank. The snails, and shrimp too, will feed off of it as needed. You can also blanche and cool off spinach and kale, both high in calcium, and add those as food to your tank.
i do use cuttle bones , but have found the mystery snail dont eat it for whatever reason, i no just use the vacation feeders since they are mainly calcium and the snails eat those preety well
how long does the cuttle bone or vacation feeders last in the aquarium?
A lot of good information, I appreciate you sharing it with us. I just got 5 clutches and I’m new to all of this, so this video really helped me with the steps I need to take. Thank you!
I just got my very 1st clutch right now
I don't know what to do lol
How are yours going?
Any tips?
I have had several clutches of eggs, thus various sizes. When they get of breeding age, have an outlet to sell or give them away. One clutch can have over 200 babies and they grow fast when well fed. So I became a breeder. I trade to fish store for fish and other things I need for my other fish tanks
My snails would not eat cutle bone, so I shaved it and dumped the shavings in the water. Now they suck it off the walls.😊
Thanks for this video...this is how my snails look as well .. exactly the same color
This is great I've found the clutch but never seen them layed. Thanks!
Thanks for this information
You really made this very interesting and funny
I absolutely love it ❤
Great video man, enjoying the fish room
So glad I found your channel! I'm basically new. Been enjoying mystery snails for over a year. Had two clutches hatch in the same tank they were laid in. The ones that glided onto the glass, I removed into a goldfish bowl with a small sponge filter. Had about 70 grow out big enough to put back into the original tank. They've done well. Now they're laying clutches. I have 4 now. Each one larger than the last. The first one has been hanging up where she laid it. For a little over 2 weeks. This morning it was missing. I found it laying on the bottom of the tank. And there were about 12 little white baby singe floating pod looking babies with what looks like sort of a sperm tail. Do I leave them all, clutch and all in the tank? Or should I take the fallen clutch and little single guys out and incubate them further. The clutch still looks pink not dark is mold color at all. Help. And thank you again. You're video has really taught me alot I needed to know. You're awesome!
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I have a zero percent success rate when trying to incubate, but have been wildly successful with just letting the eggsack do its thing on the tank wall. But, my hatchery tank does have a properly fitted lid and the temperature in the tank is very warm (80 to 82F), so just a matter of having a tank that can keep in that heat and humidity.
Dang bro that was a lot of information to take in at once. Great video man i have never really been a snail guy but i think i understand them a lot more now.
How long do you keep your mystery snails in the grow out tank? And how long until you consider them full-grown to be a reasonable size?
I got my first clutch and super excited. I am glad I glad I found your channel. Just wondering if you sell your mystery snails too?
Love your work!!! Do you sale your snails?
Really great video.
Omg thank you so much for doing this video. Now i understand my snails a ton more.
Oh gosh I'm one of those snello people!
Do you have the blue snails available?
some cool footage there kyle
Can you put plecos with the mystery snails and can they eat the same things?..
I have a large Pleco she is about a foot & a half. She was not mean to my snails. But when she would clean the glass & surfaces she would not see the snails & knock them off things & scare them. So they started to hide a lot more seemed more timid. So in my experience the Plecos arnt mean but they do cause a lot of stress. Hope i could help!
@@NightmareGrape8994 definitely! I'm planning to put a bristle nose pleco in with my family of mystery snails..thanks ..
@@yng.chapito_1956 Bristol are smaller & may pay more attention to where the snails are.
Nice video. Very good info thank you for sharing!
thanks for stopping by! , here in the next month i think im gonna need some more anubias . i cant find any decent quality plants anywhere....
Kyle Weltner I got what ever you need when your ready
Hi Kyle are you still active on this channel or anywhere on social media? I found your video very very helpful and I had a few more questions. Please let me know thank you!
Thanks so much---so very helpful and interesting.
Where can I sell my mystery snails? I have over a hundred from the last clutch I let hatch.
Thank you soo much, very informative!! I made snello and they love it annnd its sooo easy and cheap!
Great video and best info on snails I've seen ,, thanks
Very happy it was helpful!!!!
I love how your utilising your totes😉 tote aquariums are fun and so multipurpose it's crazy.
Love the video, I will have to add calcium. to the mystery snail diet
Interesting information, thank you
Thanks for the video! Going to get a can of green beans!
My snails always prefer Wonder Shell over cuttlebone.
Should I drain the can of green beans before dumping it in?
yes!!! Green beans aren't a complete diet either. Mystery Snails need much more to be healthy and live full lives, check out "Snello" recipes online.
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Thank you great info. So help full .👍🙏👨👩👧👦🇺🇸😎
Great information. Thank you
Help? I've had my mystery snails for a month or so and the first batch of their eggs have hatched, but one of the babies shells is like a ramshorn snail and the face is shaped differently.
It's the same size as the other hatchlings and I for sure only have the apple/mystery snails so what could be going on?
They are the purple ones if that matters, and it's only one baby like this out of about 40 snails.
no idea... how big are they ? it might be a ramshorn depending on whats in the tank, plants? other items that may have trasfered it? i have never seen anything like what your describing. you can email ( my about section ) me a photo and i can see if that helps diagnose but ide bet its a ramshorn
So I wake up and I see 6 baby snails so far and I didn’t see eggs or nothing 🙄 and I only got one I bought from the pet store 2 months ago please explain
Hi question do you cook or heat the can green beans for the mystery snails or is it ok to throw those in the tank straight out if the can room temperature?? 🐌
And when do you buy shells in the tank for if you do
I can’t remember if you said if you can put the power in the water I have a beta fish in mine but it’s a 20 gallion take like 7 snails but I just had a eggs but I also want to take care of the ones I just bought
I some how lucked out and got 1 male and two female mystery snails. They where have been housed together in a hospital tank while I treated my 40 breeder for over a week. I did see mating going on. I have 2 clutches of eggs I'm floating one. I'm going to remove and float it as well. I wasn't going to thank you so much for the info.
My God. My spell check is horrible. I can't thank you enough for for showing me. I do have a question. My snails are laying back to back. I was told that apple snails do not do this. Maybe I have always had boys, but I now have 5 clutches. The three of them all mated again. It's only been a few days in between. I'm worried for them. I know that takes alot out of my females. Lil girl blue has such a big hole in her shell. I bought her like that. They where going to throw her away. In my book everyone and everything gets a chance no matter how bad off or sick they are. But now my male is on his side and bladder snails are crawling on him, and Goldie locks has moved. Is this normal for these guys? I can't get a good answer on if forum. Ppl are telling me everything I do wrong and not how to actually care for them and help be healthy. I feed them beans from a can every day. What else can I do for them? I'm not sure on my water hardness. It hard but in the safe range. My pH is constant between 7.4-7.9 depends on the time of day.
if they are developing shell problems it is either dietary or environment. if your water is soft or low in kh that can be an issue, you can add crushed coral to the substarte to buffer it, if it is dietary adding foods high in calcium will help, like weekend or vacation fish feeders or crayfish foods
ide try feeding less since alot of food can make them grow fast and cause shell issues to, and at the same time feed more calcium rich foods.
Do they interbreed? What happens to the colour if they do?
i see my mystery snails mating frequently but they never laid eggs, the first time they were observed mating was 2-3 months ago. I have ammonia 0 ppm, nitrite 0 ppm nitrate 100 ppm. The hardness is 28 GH, pH 8. Water volume 50 liters. They are fed every 2 days with a salad leaf or 2 slices of cucumber. I have 11 snails. What's wrong?
While I am only just getting started as a breeder, the first pair of golden mystery snails that kicked me off, which should be about the same age, are also basically the exact same size. The only way I figured out which one was the female was that after separating them, the tank that had the eggsacks was obviously the tank containing the female. I see suggestions that females are a bit darker colored on the whirl, but no, not in my case, my male is darker in the whirl. Size doesn't distinguish them at all. There are no outward distinguishing qualities at all between them.
I just got a bit lucky that the female ended up in the tank she did, as the couple of eggsacks laid in the initial tank where they were together had very little success in hatching, I only got 7 snails out of I think it was 5 egg sacks laid in that tank. Then I got ~650 babies hatched out in the tank she ended up in. So clearly the second tank was a lot more suited to hatching eggsacks than the initial tank!
What do you use for substrate and how would I raise my kh as it’s non existent in my water my gh is perfect
How big do they before they lay eggs?
full grown adult size , so females will get about 1.5 inches roughly in diameter before they lay and males will need to be at least 1in , size if not bigger to fertilize them. females max out around 2.5 + inches in diameter and males max out at 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter, by diameter i mean if you were to place them in said circle size there shell would touch the edges.
This is so helpful! Bought "no salt added" green beans right after watching. The cans state "No salt added" has 15mg sodium vs 330mg for regular. In years of raising snails, I have never had a snail crawl out of the tank. Wondering if salinity has increased?
I also use AquaticBlendedFoods Mini Veggie Sticks with Added Calcium after using Omega One veggie discs for years - very messy just like you said. Thanks for great info on snails:)
i dont think your salinity would go up from that.they can crawl out looking for food or a place to lay eggs normally
is broccoli ok?
yes
Does the calcium carbonate limestone powder need to be food grade? Thanks for the video, new mystery nail owner here. 🙂
Great Video, Kyle. One suggestion: you make the same mistake I do when I video - you move the camera WAY too fast! This makes the viewers head jerk around trying to follow your views.
ahh yea i know .. i have a gimbal for that problem and ill start using it again, it makes for much smother shots but is harder to point the camera where you want it to go, since its being controlled by a gimbal. but thanks for the heads up ill be sure to work on that in my future videos.
I am the king off cooking my ehiem heaters! They survive though, so long as you don't quench them.
Hello🐠 you have the purple mystery snails?
yes i do , you can contact via email listed in my about section, or check my site wildworldaquatics.com
Sure will thank you!
When it comes to calcium, I have never tried a snello, or used egg shells, or the like. I have lots and lots of cuttlefish bone in my tanks, I add some powdered calcium carbonate from time to time (find it in the hermit crab section of your fish store!), and Hikari crab treats which are very popular with the snails. So my snails get calcium both in the water and as food. Haven't had a single bad shell yet. Would be nice if fish stores would figure out to sell these products as snail and shrimp items in addition to bird (cuttlefish bone) and crab items. Kind of weird I have to go to so many different parts of the pet store to get the things I need just for snails.
hey man great video and info. I'd like to ask a question if I may. here's my setup, African cichlid tank, about 8 of them juveniles, 2 cray fish, 3 mystery snails, 1 pleco. I generally toss some broccoli in tank and pleco wafers which the cray fish love. I feed sinking shrimp pellets for calcium for the crayfish and snails mainly, so they can shift through the gravel for the tiny remains. I do this in am then in PM I feed cichlid gold sinking pellets which has a bunch of veggies protein. should I be doing something different ? my snails move around at night but I always see them just in side their shells closed up. on occasion I will see one going up tank. dunno if they are trying to breed or escape. thanks in advance for any input
they might be trying to lay eggs.... but they also breath air so they go to the surface to breath as well. if they are hiding alot in the day time or just in general it may be your fish, most fish will eat their antenna and even their eyes so in defense they may hide untill they starve sometimes. you can always try them in another tank or even a tub and see if the behaviour changes after a week or so .
my snail just layed eggs 2 days ago. how long do we keep the snails in the incubator after the snails come out of their egg? i have never had snails so i need help asap!!!!
sorry for the delayed response... as soon as they hatch they can go in the water or they can stay there and eat the egg casing for a day , then they need food at which time they can go in a tank. also FB has some great snail groups if you run into issues that need faster responses in the future
Kyles Wild World no worries, i understand! one night they were having trouble to get out of the clutch so i did break it open and got all of them out. i put them in the water right away and they started to move right away! i feed them canned carrots and they eat them so fast!! everything has been looking super great lately and they are growing so fast! thankyou for everything!
I have hard water and I've noticed the snails will feed on the hard water stains at the top of the aquarium; they haven't laid eggs yet, but I assume it helps their calcium needs. That said, I have two snails, and found both of them on the floor today (they survived though). They've been fine enough ever since I got them about a month ago, but I also just recently got some otto's for better clean up. I had them eating a bit of cooked cabbage a few days ago but haven't fed them since. It does seem that one is male and one is female even though they're both about the size of a large grape or cherry, because lately I keep finding one latched on top of the other for a few hours just over the opening of the other snail's shell. Don't know if they want food due to lack of food because of otto's, or if they're trying to lay eggs.
How do they defy gravity while birthing??? Please tell me!!! I'm hatching some. Thanks!
do they interbreed?
the colors? yes they do, i have some chestnuts which are browns and yellows mixed, i am hoping for jades ,blues and yellows mixed. but like all genetics there are dominant and recessive genes. they are all the exact same species so you can interbreed, as for getting colors you would like, that requires an understanding of their dominant and recessive genes, which colors are the strongest genetically and then working on it.
So, I bought some snails from the pet store, I have 3, and one of them laid eggs. How long are they pregnant for before they lay the eggs?
A female can store sperm for sever months before laying eggs. If she was kept at the pet store with a male she could lay fertilized eggs several months after being separated. Keep in mind theyll also sometimes lay infertile eggs.
ok, if you push them down do they lay eggs on bottom or die in process?
the eggs need to be above the water line or they will drown, they also need to be kept humid or the babies cant eat their way out when they hatch
Awesome video
So cool Kyle! ☑☑
What kind of filter do you reccomend? I only have 3 snails in a 20 gallon tank
Do I understand you that the eggs sit on a wet sponge to incubate? People say a lot of things, but I don't know if they are supposed to be dry and humid, or wet and humid...
Ok maybe a stupid question here but to anyone….If you have one color of snails will they have all that color babies or does it varies?
My gold inca has been up near the water line for 4 days! No eggs. Last night she moved a couple inches along the water line. What's up? Previously she was all over the place chowing down.
You automatically get the Like button for the moisture alarm!!
So you do not overfill your tanks!
I will buy one asap! 👍🎯🍻🍀
I just adopted two blue mystery snails from my staff member. And now I'm trying to learn as much as possible about breeding them. Because of how I want to correctly breed them and sell them. Thank you so much for your video it's helpful.
Do they need brackish water to breed?
no , brackish may not be good for them as well , ive never looked into it tho. they are a freshwater mollusc
Snails and puffers are my thing!!! But puffers eat snails so it’s a little sad lol got to love them both :) great video!
thank you , lol yea , the puffers manage the snail addiction for me tho
Your voice sounds like Steve-O. How do we clean the tank without hurting or sucking up the babies?
I know this is a very old video but do y poo u have any magenta or purples for sale still?
How long does it take to for them to hatch ? Great video!
7-21 days depending on temperature and humidity
Kyles Wild World okay thank you !
Hi- I changed my water yesterday and now all my snails are mostly lifeless... but partly out of their shell and have a lot of mucous attached to them. They look really sick- is there anything I can do? I changed the water again as it seems directly correlated with the water change and now nitrate/nitrite/ammonia is all 0 ppm with ph slighly above 7.
Replace all but 2 filters, 25% water change, activated charcoal is a must for the ammonia/nitrites/nitrates to balance 'ecosystem'...rinse filter media in same tank water you take out for water change..balances it all out
PH should be at a comfy 7.5-7.7
leave the water alone..[except for testing] don't be like me and get inpatient....
Hey I was trying to find a way to message you I have some freshwater snails and just had a question I can't figure out a way so I guess I will just comment my snails seem to be having snex for the last 2 days on and off .. and I'm wondering if that is a good thing or? I visit them regularly seeing as how they are right in the middle of my house lol just wondering if I should be looking for clutches being made in the next 15 days
Hi there, I used to breed these snails when I kept fish & sold babies (snails & fish) to swap for more equipment - I have only seen yellow mysterys here in Perth WA - I'm going to cast about to see if other colours are available but if not, do you ship internationally? Thanks in advance - I hope you're still looking here :)
I should have added I want to start breeding them again and when I saw your different colours I was all whoah!! I want!!
I don't use heater for my tank
Why
How do they drown when they can breathe under water?
So far from the beginning my Tupperware incubation has worked every time
My got the calcium from a pellet food I found online. Paprika dry pellets. 100%, and if you google Paprika has A LOT of kalcium in it. :-)
Crush the cuttlefish bone into smaller pieces and powder some and put it in the substrate
Do you have any magenta mystery snails for sale?
Hey, :) Thx, seriously great information. Really.
Sorry to bother you with more questions. Can you tell a little (or a lot) about your largest Mystery Snail?