|| "Mary E. Hill" wrote in message
||| "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
|||||| I've had apple snails, and found it hard to figure out just what
|||||| it takes to make them survive and thrive. I have 5 tanks. In 3
|||||| of them they don't survive 3 days, in the other 2 they thrive. I
|||||| can't figure out what the difference could be. All the tanks
|||||| have good filtration and identical water quality readings. They
|||||| all have wood and live plants..... beats me
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|||| In the tanks where they DO NOT thrive, do you have African dwarf
|||| frogs? Mine eat snails.... any kind, any size....
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||| Wow - that's strange! I've got three dwarf frogs at home with 3
||| large snails and they just completely ignore them (so far anyway!).
||| Maybe it's because the snails are bigger than the frogs
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|| My frogs try without success to eat my snails...they just end up
|| bouncing off the shells. I did notice a few days ago that my *ghost
|| shrimp* were plucking baby snails out of the gravel and sucking them
|| dry. I had never heard of that before, so it was kind of strange to
|| watch.

it's not that big of a snail, mine ate all the MTS out of the tank their
in... ALL of them...

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