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• stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My aquarium snails are awesome, salt and freshwater…so many cool little cleaners. Wild caught snails can have parasites but as long as you wash your hands, don’t lick or kiss, and keep it out of your mouth you should be ok.

  I haven’t ordered from here but it’s a good place to look at pet snails (terrestrial).
  www.snailysnail.com/buy-live-pet-snails-online

  I have ordered from this site; snails arrived alive and are thriving (marine and freshwater).
  www.liveaquaria.com

  I just wish I could build an ocean thermal vent so I could have scaly-foot gastropods, the most metal of snails. Literally, they have metal scales.

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My pea puffers love aquarium snails.

    Such a fun little crunch pop squish, I assume it’s like aquarium gushers

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pea puffers are so cute! I wish I had doscovered them before populating my 20g fresh with other fish. I do want to eventually have a tank with them. We have a 21g salt water AIO that’s being decomissioned (moved it to a 120) that I might explore converting to fresh water.

      I totally get the crunchy pop gushers. We had bladder snails in one tank amd when I was showing my wife how easy they were to squish if we wanted to do manual removal…it burst right into her mouth. She wasn’t happy.

      The clown loach we hired to take care of the snails did a great job, but, sadly, then wouldn’t eat anything else and starved itself.

      I’ve thought about getting one for the malaysian trumpet snails in my other tank but would hate to see another one go the same way. Although, those trumpet snails would feed them for a long while; feeding time turns the substrate into a crawling writhing mass of spiral shells. They do keep the bottom of the tank clean!

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      • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I had a 40 gallon breeder that was absolutely overrun with snails.

        I could not keep up with them, they’d get into the filter and make a gross impeller goo …

        Thousands of them.

        3 pea puffers and the tank was clear of them in days.i have a carboy I grow snails in now, dip a cucumber in the carboy to get a load of snails and dip it into the tank with the puffers for some enrichment.

        They’re ravenous.

        Their primary diet is beef heart and frozen tilapia.

        I have a Bichir that gets the same diet as these little murder balls

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