This is the type of snails I am using to clean the bottom tank after the frys know how to swim right. :)

This is the kind of snail "I" use.
I use brigg snails. Though they are larger than the spixi, they do not eat healthy plants, and I like them for the different colors they come in.

I love the little spixi snails, the ones you sent me Yeevs. I like the idea of the briggs snails tho, if they don't eat live plants they'd work out great in my planted tanks. I have an algae problem. :angry: :angry: :angry:

They SAY briggs don't eat algea after a certain point, but I know that to a lie. MY snails have eaten algea when they were full adults...
But the babies do do a better job of algea eating.
I can send you some babies i you want.
I have a cluch that is about 2 weeks old, and one that just hatched yesterday or the day before, (I forget).
The 2 weekers are going to be blues and dark striped purples, the ones that are new hatched are going to be ivories and light striped purples... maybe some magentas.
If you ever get a brigg (and make sure it IS a brigg, some stores sell canas which are water goats, lol), and you see it munching on a plant...
And you are SURE it is a brigg, don't even wory, they will eat dead and dying parts of plants. So that munching is helpful in that is it cleaning the plant up!!!!

Let me know, OK. They can go out priority, and get to you safe and sound, and you'll get to watch them grow up!!!!
USeeIt??? was my first snail, she is the second one.
This is how big she was when I got her...




I had actually gotten her about 2 weeks before the pics were taken, and she had grown ALOT!!!

Wow, cool. I think I'll take you up on that offer. Sounds like what I may need to help my algae problem, it's getting on my plants now too. grrrrrrrrrrr :angry:

Well PM me or EM me, I would say IM me, but you still have me pending, lol.
And i will send you some baby briggs, on BOTH colors!!!!

I am using regular ol' pond pest snails, the tiny ones. They make great dwarf puffer food too, that's why I keep them around ;). All my other tanks have plants or something that would eat the snails, but the fry tank is perfect because it just has Java fern, which they don't like for some reason. I used to have trumpet snails in there too (they're in all my tanks like a plague), but one of the females I tried to breed systematically killed and ate every snail she could find... no more trumpets in that tank! :lolo:

Wow, MTS ar hard to get rid of, few things like to eat them.
I have ponds, mts, ramshorns and briggs, lolol.

Tell me about it!! :(
I pop a sinking wafer into a cup every now and then and collect the snails that flock to it, but I've never completely gotten rid of them. Fortunately I don't want them completely gone anyway, they do a good job of keeping my sand turned :)

Well they are some hardy lil buggers.
Check it out, I rescued a bunch from walmart, Rocky, who is the chick that runs the pet section let me scoop out as many as I could find.
I tossed them in a bin with water, and for some reason they died on me.
Now I had java moss in there that died as well, (which makes me think something was put in it by the small people that live in my house, but no one fessed up).
Anyway, it got nasty, and foul and I didn't care.
But then I needed thatbin, because I was getting pulex in.
So I started cleaning it out, and I found 4 teeny MTS hiding in it.
I tossed them in the brigg bin, and I guess the shock killed two of them
Those two survivors, who I am calling Frit and Frat, have FINALLY began to reproduce.
I have a grand total of about 15 MTS in the brigg bin
The brigg bin has calcisand in it, and they have been busy turning it over.
I used to have to give them a hand with my once monthly raking when I did the 100 % water change on the briggs, but now even though I don't HAVE to, when I do it, I don't run into nasty pockets. So they are doing their jobs quite well.

Another type of snail I am going to try, they are BIG they look like MTS, but big like briggs. They are wild snails in a nearby pond.
They are some kind of trap door snail, and they are winter hardy, but all of the ones I could find last year were mud brown OOOGLY.
I just want to try them out, and see how they reproduce, what they eat, ect... I just have to find some young ones, all the big guys were shell pitted, and you know they are all full of paracites.. And as far as I know, they don't make snail wormer.

Got a PM coming your way Betta Belle, I never got an IM request. :(

lol, I used to breed pond snails for color, ..I got some gorgeous color variations, my faves were the black fronted res, and the yellows.. ^_^

Yellow/ albino adult pond snail

Golden

They are hard to get photos of, and those were when I had alot of them, but i stopped breeding them, and just let them breed on their own, which sadly the majority died, or was eaten by bettas, or got sucked up by filters...But I never had an over population problem, infact, I just spotted a surviving red/mahogony baby in my 20 gallon, sure beats mudd brown, oh, and I started out with 100% wilds, had to breed for a year before i started seieing change, then the hardest one to get to stay with a black bodied white, they also grew thicker shells, so that strain survived for a while, but i'm not entirely sure what happened <_<

anyway, I'm for want some pretty snails, I will see if i can find some more :OO

Oh those are little BITTY puffer foor pond snails.
These are BIG honkers.
I have noticed the color variations on the pest ponds, and have thought about color breeding them.
Here are some pics of the snails I was talking about, an the place I found them... Like I said, I am going to have to take a trip and collect a few.
And no body knows what they are, lol.


The place where I find them





As you can se, these are pretty big. I just need to clear a few bins, and tripple worry about paracites.
These guys were swarming with them.

oh yea, we got some of them around here too, I almost got a white one *wild :wub: * but I fell asleep while fishing with my dad, and then forgot, I guess my dad put the container with him in the trunk..last time i gheard about him..darn! I will get some eventually lol

Wish we had a nice pond like that around here, I might be able to go pick my own snails then! eheh

Not to be a party pooper or anything, but you guys know that you have to have a license for selling and shipping apple snails.

Oh yeah, for the ID of the large trumpet snails, have you tried applesnails.com (or is it .net?)? I think I have seen snails similar to those you posted on there.