How To Set Up a Mystery Snail Tank: DIY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- I recently upgraded my 'Nursing Home Tank' and I thought it was a good opportunity to share in my experience, how to set up a Mystery Snail Tank!
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just a note:
The standard rules of how many Mystery Snails can be kept in a tank, in my opinion, can be bent, not broken, but BENT with adequate filtration and a weekly maintenance schedule that includes very good gravel vacuuming.
SNAILS POOP A LOT! Be prepared for it!
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Thank you all so much for taking the time to watch this video and I hope it may have helped someone set up a lovely home for their Mystery Snails!
-hug your snails
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I miss you lava. You're a fountain of snail wisdom. Please come back. Every time I set up a new tank (on #9 today) I come back to this video for a refresher to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Hope you're doing well. I started breeding purple and magenta bc how beautiful yours are.
Omg I love your attitude towards snails, you really love them !! I do too and it’s really nice to see someone else who shares that love. I’m glad that I found your channel and I look forward to your future content. I’m new to the hobby and look forward to growing with you as well. Nice to meet you.
Thank you!
Love this tank so much, and that you used a tall one. Ever since my first Walstad tank, I will only put snails of any species in tall tanks. I think they are so much happier in tanks with a lot of height to grow more algae for them to slurp up.
0:47 - pH of 7.6 - 8.4, kH 12 - 18 n GH 8 - 18. Harder water the better.
1:00 - 68 to 84 degrees fehrenheit. Cooler watr stronger shell, but not 2 cold. 74 is perfect.
1:08 - ideally a cycled tank with Fritz Turbo Start n API liquid calcium.
I have been trying t0 figure out what to do with my 10 gallon waterbox,thanks for the inspiration.
Just got my first mystery snail great animal. Love it.
is there anyway you could list the products mentioned in the video? i'm finding this info super helpful but having a hard time getting the exact names down. thank you so much, from a new subscriber! xo
That was a great video! Thank you for posting it! I can't wait to see what the tank looks like when the plants grow out!
Thank you so much!🐌♥️
Beautiful!
Long story, but I'm taking care of 2 young mystery snails until my social studies teacher grows his aquatic grass (About a week) and I'm using a 2.5 gallon. However I'm thinking of keeping one of my own after I give them to him because of how cool they are. I'm gonna need a bigger tank if I want to do that judging by the size of those snails! Lol
That's so kind of you to do! Sure of course you can keep 1 in a 2.5 gallon! Be sure to give it plenty of things to climb on and graze on. Enrichment is quite important in a small tank. Like with any size tank, just be sure to do your water changes and your snail friend should be grand! 🐌❤👍best of luck!
@@LavsSnails If I do end up getting more I'll definitely upgrade, I only have this small tank bc my teacher loaned it to me :> but no worries, they have lots of fake plants, deep sand to dig and a large hide. They also climb on the walls :) Their names are Pedro and Maria lol. Thank you :))
Hugs to Pedro and Maria ❤🐌🐌❤
@@LavsSnails thank you :> I just gave them some spinach and cucumber
What's a "mushroom mountain"?? I would love to put on in my trapdoor snail tank!!
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Love the video! As always great information. Where do you het the calcium block?
Thank you Sharron! The calcium block is from CrayfishEmpire.com👍♥️
Where to get a mushroom mountain?? It's beautifully planted
Awesome video keep up the amazing work!
Thank you!
Hello, could you make a video of your snails that have deformities? I’ve been wondering what to look for. I have 3 clutches that I want to hatch but I don’t know what to look for in the healthy babies when they hatch. I know it’s a weird request lol.
I have 200 to 300 mystery snail growing in a 45 gallon tank. Since they are very well fead, I have to make water change every 2 or 3 days. I would like to move some to my other tanks while they get biger. Some have Seachem Flourite Black substate. I have noticed that my ramshorn don't do well in that substrate. Could it be to ruff for snails? If so do you have an other black substate to recomand that does not lower pH? My city's pH is 6.4 and I strugle to push it over 7.
How often do you change out the calcium blocks?
Great Video Lav!!! Very informative.
Thanks Life!♡
Please help...started with non rinsed black sand very cloudy...got most of that cleared up but I added the Malawi buffer and it's sitting on the top of the sand. Should I mix it into the sand and stir everything up or will it dissolve? !? Also how do I clean the poo without making another cloud dust?
just started watching. would a 3 gallon, filtered and heated tank work for 2 or 3 mystery snails
What brand of substrate did you use? It all looks so good!
Thank you! In this tank it's Top Fin Black sand and fluval stratum. But my favorite to use for mysteries is eco-complete. Thanks for watching!🐌♥️
😍😍😍 love it!
Thank you!🤗🐌♥️
Is the calcium block from CrayFish Empire? I got one from there but it says one block if for 50gals. Is it ok to put 1 block in a 10gal tank? I want to make sure my snails get enough but is too much bad for them?
Yes! It is from Crayfish Empire! 1 block is definitely ok in anything from a 5g-30g. I leave them in all my tanks. More helpful then anything else, not harmful at all to them. Very beneficial 🐌♥️
I saw some people mentioning snails dont really like sand, they prefer pebbles and gravel. Is that true?
I had a snail with a lot of his body outside his shell, so we patched it. After awhile it seemed to part ways from him and one day we found hutch-slings feasting on his remIbs. Are they responsible fir killing him?
Awesome 🐌
They are going to love my well water! Got roughly a month before the 55 cycles, but I'll be grabbing some of your purple mystery snails then. Do the snails do okay in shipping during colder weather?
Awesome! Yeah, in the colder months they get shipped with a heat pack ♡ and an ice pack in the summer
@@LavsSnails Perfect, can't wait to see them in the tank!
My new snails aren’t moving around a lot. Any tips? Also when I feed they don’t each much
So confusing so I do need something to put in the water for the snails can't just put them in the water got it
Love ❤️ from nepal 🇳🇵
Did you prime before putting them in ? Or use any other products?
Im sure she did use some type of water conditioner. I personally use seachem prime daily just in case, with my mystery snails and fish, not just during water changes.
Setting up a tank for breeding mystery snails and gold white clouds. Tank and white clouds have been going since January,snails last two days drift wood gold coin Anubias and crypts. Very hard well water and under gravel filter system. What are your thoughts please?
Minnows wasn't torturing the mysterys an then eat them?
I have hatched two clutches, and have seven more incubating. They just keep mating and laying eggs, so I am going to give away a pair and move one into another tank. How do you control the population? They are blue mystery snails and are golf ball size that are mating.
You just squish the unwanted clusters and dispose of them
The crushed coral is for there shell right? Setting up a mystery snails tank and I have some in my fish drawer I stole one of the sponge filters and fixing 2 move over plants lowered the water level Down 3 inches have the heater kick on only if it goes under 68. Since the house stays cold. They have snaillo and im fixing to mix up calcium water as well. The one thing that makes go wait is the crushed coral I have for my puffer but he can live with sharing 😅 can you explain the reason of it in case I don't need it i dont just drop it in there and kill everyone 😬
The crushed coral will raise the Hardness and calcium levels of the tank. It shouldn't have any I'll effects of any fish. I will say, although mysteries can live in 68° water. They will not be happy and will be very lethargic and slow. That's just too cold for them. Again they can survive in it but not thrive. They are happiest at about 72-74.
But yes, the crushed coral should be safe for everyone provided they don't mind harder water. 👍🐌💜
**ill. Ill effects. Lol sry I'm a typo queen 🤣💜
@@LavsSnails snail only tank just for them and good to know ill raise the temp up. Its a 40 gallon breeder. With duck weed where all the duck weed I take out.of the other tanks goes actually.
They had a carrot and snaillo last they loved it.
Why do you need filter and oxy for snails ..don't they have lungs and gills both
Can you keep three mystery snails in a 5 gallon aquarium?
Yep! Sure can! Make sure you vacuum poop once a week and they'll be grand!
@@LavsSnails Even if they get a little bit bigger?
@@LavsSnails Thank you!🙂
Even if they get a little bigger 💜🐌💜
You talked way to fast and did not include a list of any of the items you used so that I could figure out what you did try to tell us.🤷♂️
Way to many snails in there tbh And there’s no lid so they will be crawling out in time
There are lids on all my tanks. Always.
Also, in my experience, the "rules" on how many snails can be kept in a tank can be bent.
With adequate filtration and frequent maintenance.
All my tanks stay under 40 ppm nitrate. Thanks for stopping by! Hug your snails!
@@LavsSnails Thank you for your reply I really like your by the way That was my only thing