Unboxing Rare Color Mystery Snails.
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- Unboxing rare color Mystery Snails. These mystery snails are a difficult color to find in my area and also online. We have bought some purple and Magenta Mystery snails. We hope in the future to breed these. Their shells are not good but I am hoping with a good diet and clean water they will improve. They are currently in a 10 gallon tank and will need a lot of water changes. We will be moving them into a bigger tank soon.
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I breed mystery snails. One day I found a snail on the ground behind the aquarium, he was probably there for a month. Put him in some water and sure enough he came to life. I find these little guys to be fascinating.
That must have been surprising
They can hibernate ig
Do you still breed and do you have a channel?
That's great to know😁, I had a magenta snail in my tank for 4 months and then about 2 weeks ago it dissapeared I have searched everywhere and can't find it hopefully when I do find her,she will still be alive.
@@kimberlykinkysweet1091 I breed purple and magenta and have a channel.
The ones which produce less waste, stay in black gravelled tank. Maybe that's why their poops are less noticeable
I was thinking the same thing...
I love mystery snails! They climb up and fall down plants 😂 it’s very funny and they also float sometimes 😂
They are really pretty snails, also the part of the video when one of the snails floated to the bottom of the tank, hahaha that was so cute! 😂😁
I love to watch my snails float to the bottom!! They're so cute the way they reach out with their little foot while they are waiting to land, haha. Some are very graceful and some are just straight clumsy! Others just don't kerrr. 😂
Lol I have like 170 so I have experience on watching that
Haha my snails do that I like watching them do that after eat food from the water line
So this is snail mail! :)
The comment on waste is a good point. Checking food for the aquarium inhabitants before you buy it can help avoid the problem. I never thought much about it until I read a label and found wheat, soy and other grains, now I am more selective.
" I've never had snails shipped...", I so thought you were gonna say s**t, cos you were in the middle of saying how much waste they'd produced, lol. Great video.
Denise Pollitt haha that’s what I thought too 🤣
They shipped frogbit bc it will absorb ammonia. Also, the "dirt" was mystery snail poop not dirt lol. And the gravel was in there bc when the breeder got them from the tank they were one of two thing 1. Not gentle and scared the shyt out them so they grabbed gravel and it got stuck in the shell or 2. They don't interact with their snails much so every little bit of movement scares them so they freak out and grab gravel. When they grab the gravel it's lodged in the most thin and brittle part of their shell. So often time when they try to slam closed even tighter with gravel in the way it will damage the shell. It's really no big deal as long as it's the thin rim that's new growth. It happens just when they jump off the walls and land.
Dirt was the polite way of saying poop….lol! TH-cam flag videos for the most ridiculous things so I am careful what I say.
I’m so excited to get my first snail!! He’s gonna help control algae in my betta tank! I’m 22 and my dad has always been in the aquarium hobby since before I was born and he’d never let me get snails because he thought they all multiplied into millions, which they do but what I understand from mystery snails is that they lay eggs and you just skim them off the top of the water. Anyways I finally am gonna get a blue mystery snail and I’m so excited! I used to love hunting for land snails as a kid. My betta is a spoiled boi so the snail will probably be spoiled too!
Make sure the beta doesn't nip at the snail betas can be kind of aggressive
@Paige Your comment was two years ago so I’m sure YOU have figured this out- but to those who don’t know, Mystery snails lay a single ‘chunk’ of eggs ABOVE the waterline- if you don’t want more snails, remove & discard them. They are very easy to remove and that makes population control up to you.
The snails look great! I love the color. I hope their shells improve.
totally loved your videos, and when i saw that you had tanks with just snails.... it was fascinating. i got a tank with two mystery snails one blue and yellow, some ghosts shrimp ( I remember of yours), and i rescued a Betta (crowntail) so they wont be alone. Hi from N.C
I just got the Jarden corner sponge filter that you recommend for betta fish and I love it!! My betta, Dave, has been more active and so has my African Dwarf frog!! Thank you so much for all of the informational videos! I've been binge watching all of them! Keep up the amazing work!: )
Thanks!
These are very pretty little guys!
Thanks.
Oh I hope these do well for you and breeding. I most definitely want some. I feed my snails repashy with calcium added too👍. Looking forward to updates. Thanks for sharing 😁
Thanks, really hope we can get them breeding! My Ivory and Blues are breeding really well and the babies are SO cute!! Repashy is the best food!
Where can I find the Repashy with calcium? We inherited a apple snail with a pretty bad split in his shell. My guess is that hes been infiltered water for a while which, with what ive read, is not as good as hardwater. We have algae wafers and will be getting a cuttle bone too. We already have a moss ball which ''Fred'' seems to enjoy. He's been much more active since he left the tank from work. We know his shell can heal, we're just not sure how to create the right environment and diet for him. Any help would be greatly appreciated !
Ive got a ramhorn named Turbo. Fastest snail in the west haha
Do you know if you can breed them with mystery’s?
You have a very beautiful tank as well.
Hello Sheila! What a great video you made whose snails looking really cool, love your information about them you are a great informer! Must say you make Intressting learnable movies witch are really great to take in! You made my Days better then I watch your movies Sheila! Keep it up and take care! Wish you a great summer 👍👍😉🇸🇪 from your friend Mikael!
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
Lifewithpets
You are Wellcome
You are inspirers me Sheila keep it up dear 😊👍🇸🇪 from your friend Mikael take care!
Was just curious about nails. Your video was very informative.
Very cool looking snails. I'm shipping out some of my shrimp for the first time as soon as I can get a couple of cooler days. I really like the purples.
Thanks.
They were wonderful! I love my purple snails!
Love your channel
I just ordered some blacks and I’m looking for jade green mysteries.I have blue, ivory, purple and magent so far, lovely species..thanks..btw you talk about the snails like you’re reading the news headlines made me chuckle…thanks again 😊
I love the Magenta and Purples. We only have a few of them. Hopefully the calcium helps yours!
Thanks. The diet we feed is already making a difference.
Finally a video!!!Love it
Rewatching again I got my first snail laid eggs and she's purple I can't wait to see what babies she has ♥️🐌thank you for such great information
What colors were they?
What colors were they?
@@deshawnbrownley4487what colors were they?
Hello,
How are your Snails doing now? I enjoyed watching! Thank you for sharing!
They are so cool and cute ❤
Crazy it took mine like three days to start moving around they were quite scared meanwhile yours came out right away!
Those snails are really cool. I have some eggs right now,. Cant wait till they hatch.
I just looooove snaillls
They do eat the cuttle bone if they can get to it. Egg shells work a treat too.
I got lucky with a purple mystery snail at my local pet store that has been abusive to them! It's so tiny and adorable! I'm trying to get it to eat some good food now!
It could be that the dirt is because they were on the bottom of the tank when scooped out, and probably took some dirt inside their shell when they closed their operculum. All of my mystery snails have done that at one point or another. Regarding the plants, I'm not bothered by that either, because to me, those are free plants, and their existence isn't doing any harm to the snails. Poor water quality can make a snail's shell really brittle like that, especially if the pH is below 7.0, and if the KH is below 50ppm. Shell damage at the tip of the spiral will not repair over time, even as the snail grows. Any holes in the shell need to be repaired with shell from chicken eggs, and gel superglue (use gel cyanoacrylate superglue ONLY). The damage on the front of the shell, where the snails go in and out, that area will grow out over time and the growth line will be a little odd looking but the new section of growth will look really lovely as long as they have good water and a good diet.
Mystery snails take a long time, sometimes anyway, to come out after shipping. My baby purple snail took nearly an hour to come out and start exploring the tank. Others of mine have taken half that time, or a couple minutes. I think it depends on the snail.
Totally agree. She complains so much
Thanks for showing us.they look cool I never thought I'd say that about snail can I ask how much u pay for them all please.do u have to quarantine snails?
Off topic from this video, but on yalls 10 gal dividers, what do y’all put on the sides of them?
Please advise how you keep your tanks clean. 🌹
Actually I'm not into snails that much more than you and also I can't get any type of snails where I live. Anyways I have followed you from the very beginning and I just loved your videos with Betta fish. They were very helpful. But I just feel sad that you don't have any half-moon Bettas. Well anyways I just love your progress from the beginning to now.
Thank you!!!!
Great video very helpful 👍
you said they are hard to find... i found like three at my local pet shop for like 1$ so i bought them and they had really bad shells so i fixed them up :)
Pretty snails I have 8 and one layed eggs yesterday
So stinkin cute
Hi! Could you tell me where you bought them pls? i'm trying to get some ramshorns but no one sells them around my area
Do you have any good breeders websites you recommend for snails?
Only just yesterday, I discovered mystery snails can't hear? I have mixed feelings about that. Obviously that means talking to them is pointless, but it also means the noise from the water filter must not trouble them. They don't seem bothered by the rate of flow, they even kind of like to be over by the filter a fair bit of the time, but it is kind of noisy, so glad that's not a problem for them.
Also got an idea of just how abominably poor their vision is. Which is also kind of disappointing, but not entirely surprising.
They apparently have a good sense of smell, and their feelers are quite effective, so they navigate around well enough on those two things, but that lack of hearing makes me kind of sad for them.
the shell is newly grown and very fragile thats why it probably broke. happens to my snails
I’ve not had any of my snails get broken shells due to regrowth. We do use a lot of calcium though and calcium in the water.
Hello!! Those are beautiful snails!! Can't wait till they reproduce and you can sell me some :)
Me too, Happy too!
Lovely looking snails! Where can you order mystery snails from? I'm based in the UK and want to make sure I'm ordering from someone legit.
Cool video
i got at least 1 of every single color morph(that I'm aware of) from an ivory mom & brown striped dad but he has a slight purple hue to him
the mom sadly passed after laying the 3rd & final clutch
i had had her & papa snail for almost a year then suddenly they decided they wanted a bunch of babies all at once
That white one fell down are hilarious
Nice video!🙂
Wow so many jw how do you breed them successfully will only 1 work on hatching & fertile
If you have multiple snails and only one is laying eggs, you might have only one female. If you have eggs and they hatch, you'll have a lot more soon.
What are the green balls in your tank?
Where did you buy them? Would love to know please
What are their shells looking like now?
Sheila, would the calcium along with repashy gel food be good for shrimp, as well?
Yes:)
I should invest into more snails.
cute snails!! I love mine!! i originally put mine in a tank with white sand and soon realized that was a mistake - i could see all their poo!! hhahhaahh!! I'll be curious to see if you find them still producing the same amount of waste even on your diet. ;) maybe it just stands out in the white sand as apposed to the black substrate?
Thanks, I was going to do black sound but the colors would not show up. You’re right the white does show the mess! They’re definitely messing a lot less than when they first came.
What snail do you think is the best algae eater for a 20 gallons tank?
Nerite snails.
That’s legit negligence the way they were shipped. Snails need air and they were put in a wet paper towel and in a styrofoam cup. That’s wild.
Shipping them in paper towel like that is the best way but the cup should have been something much stronger so it couldn't get crushed. if they're shipped in water the ammonia levels get dangerously high due to the waste they produce.
@@Lifewithpets72 they should have fasted the snails for a few days, they could have been water shipped, the foil packaging is also dangerous considering it took 3 days to ship. Also Every snail you showed that they sent you had some type of issue. They definitely neglected them
Hi! I'm new to watching your videos. Was that a marimo moss ball in with your snails? I thought snails ate those? I have a beautiful moss ball and would like to get him a friend, but have kept it from the snails so far.
We have the moss balls in all our tanks and the snails don’t touch them. Snails rarely eat plants. All our tanks are fully planted and the snails don’t touch them.
Hi. I want to ask about cuttlebones. I have snails in a 15g betta tank. If i add the cuttlebone, will it affect the betta too?
I have bettas in all my tanks with snails. It has not made any difference to them. You are only adding a very small piece.
Lifewithpets i see. Thanks for the reply 👍🏾😁
Do you think snails or shrimp are a better clean up crew for fish tanks? I’m pretty new to fish care and I have a betta that I’ve had for about two months. Just got him some plants and two Amano shrimp roommates that are just about as big as he is. They seem to be doing okay, but they’re leaving a lot of poop!
Shrimp have a very small bio load on a tank, snails make a lot more mess.
Lifewithpets Good to know, thanks!!
Corrine Wager Thanks for the info! Things have changed in three weeks. Original betta is in a 5 gallon tank with a couple of amano shrimp (not the ones in my original comment) and three nerite snails. The tank in my original comment is a 3.7 gallon, and that currently houses one female betta and a spotted Cory. The Cory is the lone survivor of my cousin’s 10 gallon disaster. I think that she had overstocked it. Until I can get a bigger tank, I’m thinking of moving the female and the cory into the 5, and the male betta into the 3.7. I’m really not too sure what to do! The Petco guy said I could do that and add two more Cory to the 5 gallon.
online their 5 bucks apiece.. same as ones you would buy at local fish store..
Where did you order your snails
How can i breed them the best way?
How many bettas are safe for a 10 gallon? My male is old, and I am waiting for his unfortunate end, whenever that may be, take a break, prepare, and then get a few more bettas. Or is it better to just have one betta to itself? I am completely understanding to whatever answer you may give
Amazing snails btw
Only one Betta can go into a 10 gallon tank. He/she may accept suitable tank mates of other species.
What is that floating plant you have in the snail tanks?
Frogbit.
Plus the warmth would help them poo more too, lol. 💩😋 (I was referring to the shipping poop, lol.)
Also, the next day when you found all the poop in the tank? It could be from your coconut husk. Snails love to eat any kind of wood and that's very fibrous. They could have all chowed down on it and then pooped everywhere. I know it's a different snail, but same occurrence: I had to actually get rid of a nerite once because it wouldn't stop pooping everywhere and it was only a small three gallon! What happened was I got a piece of Mopani driftwood. The snail rarely left that wood after I put it in there and there was so much black poo everywhere!!!! Everything was dandy before that. But maybe that's what happened? Anyway, I thought it was so funny tho when you were saying, "I've never seen this much dirt before" while unpacking the snails... I was thinking, "doesn't she realize that's poo??". 😂 Then I realized you were just being proper, lol. 😉
It turned out it was the snail cookies she fed them. I was sent samples and oh my! Needless to say I didn’t use them again and all is under control....lol!
Where did get them
I remember my first mystery snail when I found it floating I had a heart attack
add a wonder shell it really helps their shells ime
I have 4 clutch’s from my magenta mystery snails. I don’t know what I’m go to do with so many. 🤦🏻♀️
Magenta and purples are very sort after. Try selling online or at your local store.
I sympathize. Lol mine have laid SO many eggs that I don't know what to do with them. My lfs isn't buying them right now.
They weren’t shipped in a water bag? Just wet paper towel? Is this normal?
The best way to ship some snails is in wet paper towel.
Can I feed my snails pleco wafers?
What kind of food do you feed them?
We feed a lot of different foods. We will be doing a video on it soon.
I think you've got the same waste, but you cant see it one the black bottom like you can the white.
Do you recommend nerite snails or Mystery snails?
It really depends what you’re wanting them for. If to help with algae then definitely the nerite snail, otherwise either is great.
Poor little guys. Was the box crushed? Maybe they got smashed during shipping.
Will you share the recipe you use for your snails food?
We have it listed on our website. We also have a video on the channel on what to feed snails and how to make the foods.
Oh. I've not seen your website. I'll take a look. Thank you for your response
How long can a snail go without feeding ?
When we go on a 7 day vacation they get fed once in that time. I personally wouldn’t go any longer than that but if they’re healthy they probably could go a little longer.
Would you recommend ordering from online. I kinda think it's touture for the animals..
Vloggers Life even if you bought from a store, they’ve most likely been shipped there. I’d say it’s ok if it’s someone reputable who ships fast so the animals get to you in only 1-2 days
Yes, as long as they are shipped well it’s not a problem.
Okay thank you Malevo, and LifeWithPets!!
I've had shipped snails and never like this
where did you get the snailz pls reply
We sell these snails on our website. They're out of stock at the moment but we will have more next week.
@@Lifewithpets72 oof oK
Whay this snail call mistary snail?
How long do they live?
Typically 1-2 years depending on their care. Most of ours live approximately 2 years and sometimes longer.
I don’t know ANYTHING about these snails, but my daughter has one and it hasn’t moved in days! Please help! It doesn’t smell and the snail isn’t hanging out of the shell or anything. She is so upset. Any info would be appreciated! Thanks
What is your tank set up like? What temperature is the tank at?
Yes, tanks must be warm, too many people just think room temp is enough, it’s not, warm( 75-79*F) humid and fresh clean water changes (30% per week)
MrsStevenBrown its a small fresh water tank with a heater in it and the thing that blows bubbles for air for the fish.
KimberlyElizabeth 83 what are you feeding? What is the temperature? I’d advise a 30-50% water change, water temp at 75-79’F and maybe add a boiled spinach leaf (4 min boiled) near to the snail, check for any toxins that could have gotten in, hand creams, pennies are deadly, foreign objects can leak things, make it only natural items :) Good luck!
I tried a semi cooked cucumber that I saw in a video but the snail didn’t even come out to eat it.
Funny my pet store sells these types and I have these two types
You're fortunate. There are waiting lists for these color where I am!
This video is alil old, have your snails reproduce yet? If so are you selling them, and do you ship to the U.S?
Yes they have. We are in the USA. Our website link is in the description box of the video.
Well thank you so much. I'll check that out. They are my favorite snails. I got lucky and got 10 Jade's out of one clutch.
Your website says you are out of stock
Yes, they sell very quickly. I think the snail page says when they’ll be available again:)
Not dirt, poop! Hahaha
Will you be selling snails as your breeding program gets going?
Yes.
How much are they each and were can I order
They’re available on our website. Link is in the description of the video. USA shipping only.
@@Lifewithpets72 gonnaaa orderrr someeee thank you!
Can they clean
They do but they’re not as effective as nerite snails.
Okay thank you for the information
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really weird shipping... uhmmm.. snail cruelty. also i luv ur channel.
I thinks because u have dark gravel so u can’t see the poop as clear............
Hi hi biggest fan if yours one if the first viewers please tell me my oranda has a red spot in its tail and just sits like a statue most of the time please give me a solution
Wouldnt you ruin the color of the snail's offspring? I mean the breeder took a long time to get the snails color to stay magenta so why add the purple kind in with them? Makes no sense at all in my opinion. I know that they are the same species though.
No you don’t ruin the color. The snail offspring with be purple snails and magenta snails. The offspring for these snails still live on today and produce purple and magenta babies.
I'm done with mystery snails, they breed way to much and I've had to put in snail traps because they breed so much.
.mystery snails eat frog bit and duck weed.