my snail tank

this is my new snail set up. 90 ltr river reef tank with ruby and tiger nerites and some of my home bred Sulawesi elephant snails,

















and these are a couple of other snails i have in my other tanks.
horned armour snails and more elephants.

Beautiful snails there

thank you. i`m keeping my eye out for some other interesting varieties to add to my collection.

Lovely photos and snails.

I will warn you though that you look to have too many nerites in your tank, I would suggest thinning out the numbers a bit to make sure they don't starve.

I am feeding extra algae wafers and cucumber.

Hi,

Great snails you have there and lovely tank too. I also have a few Sulawesi snails (gold spotted I think), along with Nerites and Apple Snails.

I've had my Sulawesi Snails about 8wks and are proving easy to care for eating everything from cucumber to bloodworm pellets. Great photo of baby snail, I have five babies born over the time I've had them, every 2 wks or so another seems to appear

I attach a few photos:

baby Tylomelania



Adult


Ruby Nerite

Ooh nice pics, that little black trumpet fella intrigues me, what kind is it?

its a baby Sulawesi elephant snail you can find them at the snail shop. look at the other photos to see the adults.
thanks matango your adult looks in a much better condition than any of mine has it got any shell erosion? do you know if the erosion repairs its self?

Hi jonboy,

Regarding shell erosion, mine look pretty good, the only noticeable erosion is some pitting towards the shell tips, some of which have worn ends, but I think this maybe normal as they get older? or maybe due to acidic water? It's hard to find any information on these snails, I guess we learn as we go along!
I don't think once they are eroded they will repair, hopefully the baby snails will remain in better shell condition!

pretty much as i thought but worth asking. i read somewhere that its because they are wild caught and the young should be ok if kept in hard water i live on the south coast so hopefully i should have some good looking snails in a while.

Matango wrote:

Regarding shell erosion, mine look pretty good, the only noticeable erosion is some pitting towards the shell tips, some of which have worn ends, but I think this maybe normal as they get older? or maybe due to acidic water? It's hard to find any information on these snails, I guess we learn as we go along!
I don't think once they are eroded they will repair, hopefully the baby snails will remain in better shell condition!

Usually snail shells just wear down over time as snails clamber around. Wild caught adults are usually in worse condition than c/b adults due to the harsher conditions that they live in. The babies that people have at the moment will look stunning when adult! Acidic water also causes shell erosion, but it is rarely a problem for the Uk as most of our water is hard and alkaline.

Once the shell has eroded that is pretty much it; they cannot repair it. They may be able to repair holes or breaks near the edge of the mantle (the shell opening), but holes near the spire won't be healed.

Nice snails you got there.
I see you're an elephant-addicted, just like me (kidding)
I expecially like the horned armour snail you got.
Regards.