marble snails

McEve wrote:
"P. Wright" wrote in message
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Yeah, did that today, and my suspicions were correct. Immediately threw

them

out. I don't understand why of all things snails would die. I thought they
could survive when nothing else would. But it wasn't anything I did since
they came that way. Oh well...I'm going to ask for some more snails from

the

online vendor. Thanks.

Paul


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



Wood softens the water and is bad for snails, you water has to be
harder. there has to be at leat a 2 to 3 inch drop at the water line.
The foods has to be high in calcium. I use Ken't liquid calcium at half
does and feed them high calcium veggies.

Best way is to visit http://www.applesnail.net

Kay

Update all,

I recieved two more marble snails from the online vendor today, and they're
doing great. They took off as soon as I added them to the tank!

--
P. Wright



"Kay" wrote in message
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McEve wrote:
"P. Wright" wrote in message
...

Yeah, did that today, and my suspicions were correct. Immediately threw

them

out. I don't understand why of all things snails would die. I thought
they
could survive when nothing else would. But it wasn't anything I did
since
they came that way. Oh well...I'm going to ask for some more snails from

the

online vendor. Thanks.

Paul


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



Wood softens the water and is bad for snails, you water has to be
harder. there has to be at leat a 2 to 3 inch drop at the water line.
The foods has to be high in calcium. I use Ken't liquid calcium at half
does and feed them high calcium veggies.

Best way is to visit http://www.applesnail.net

Kay