You can readily identify it by its extended tentacles and remarkably round shell. The Apple snail has eyes on both sides of its mouth. They can grow up being 6 inches wide. Unless your turtles eat it or it dies from illness, you can expect the Apple snail to live from two to five years if you adequately take care of it.
The Apple snail is more active during the night. Anything higher than 80 degrees Fahrenheit and you can be expecting increased reproduction activity among your snails, resulting in snails overpopulating the tank. An inconvenience your turtle may interpret as threatening its sovereign borders.
If you want a sizable population of snails in your tank in no time giving your turtle enough to feed on , you may consider the Malaysian Trumpet Snail. This snail population can aggressively multiply in your tank, courtesy of its being a hermaphrodite. Well, if you want to suppress the population, then make sure not to overfeed them. The Malaysian Trumpet has minimal maintenance needs.
Aside from algae, it can thrive on dead fish and plant materials. And if you were wondering what the Malaysian Trumpet Snail looks like, it is dressed in a shell carved into a sharp cone. The shell is striped with dark markings interspersed with a grayer body. Malaysian snails barely grow longer than an inch. The Nerite snail has a thick amber coloration further enhanced with dark bands. The Zebra is among the most buoyant types of Nerite that would befit such an aquatic setting.
This is especially considering that the Nerite snail placed in freshwater loses its reproductive capacity. The Nerite snail rarely lasts longer than 24 months. For food, pellet fish, flake, or algae would do. There is still some maintenance regimen you need to keep up with on your end.
Depending on the population of your turtle and snail as well as frequently you feed them , substantial amounts of food will likely collect at the bottom of the tank. Putrefaction of such food materials will spike the ammonia content of the water, making it toxic for both snails and turtles.
Therefore, make sure to vacuum the tank bottom at least once every week. To further shrink the ammonia content of your turtle tank, you can add floating freshwater plants.
Fruits to offer include apples, pears, bananas with skin , mango, grapes, star fruit, raisins, peaches, tomato, guava, kiwis, and melons. Fruits that are particularly. Avocado peel, seeds and leaves. Tomato leaves and vines. Poison ivy. Turtles can eat apples; however, it needs to be a rare treat.
Apples are high in sugar and acid content, and if one does decide to feed their pet turtle apples, there are many things to consider beforehand. Shredded carrots, squash, and zucchini are great foods that turtles can eat, too. You can also go with edible aquatic vegetation such as water lettuce, water hyacinth, and duckweed. They cannot retract into their shell like other turtles.
Temperature dictates the sex of baby turtles. They can hold their breath for five hours underwater. Sadly he escaped and I never found him. Flaviemys purvisi said:. Click to expand Bl69aze Very Well-Known Member. Joined Apr 9, Messages 1, Reaction score 1, HEPennypacker said:. Yeah, this was my other concern.
If I can find the slimy little bugger, I'm getting rid of it. With your turtle tank, it's advisable that you use g of salt per every litre of water So if your tank for example holds litres of water, you should add anywhere between g of sea salt. I used cal grit when I first got my turtle but it was hard to get. Only used rain tank water. Changed often. No gravel method. I was even guilty of utilising frozen turtle meals which I got burnt for. They are as tough as nails imo.
Neil j said:. Mine's using rain tank water as well- and a Zoo Med calcium block. Even for a freshwater turtle? Occasionally snail eggs come in on plants and as they are so tiny when they hatch you might not notice them for ages. Do you have any live plants?
Often when you buy live plants they'll have tiny snails on them. They aren't dangerous to turtles - Some turtles will actually eat them. The only risk is that you'll have a population explosion and never be able to get rid of them.
To many they're considered pests, while some people keep snails on purpose to clean their tanks. Typically they're Ramhorn Snails, they're asexual so if you don't want them I would recommend getting that thing out asap.
They comes from live plants. I added one live plants ages ago and seen a little millimeter snail in there.
My Musk eats them but there always there and always will be unless I boil the substrate. Yes I do have live plants from the pet store. Guess that's my answer! Not sure if I should keep them or not.. Not sure I want hundreds of them, but I don't want to kill them either, I went ahead and took this guy out of the tank. Can I just throw him outside? Only if you want to kill him slowly, unless their is a pond within throwing distance. He could be a foreign snail and you don't want to introduce them.
Kindest thing is to drop him in a pot of boiling water for instant euthanasia. You have more than 1 in there for sure. They usually hide in the substrate. I thought I only had 1 or 2 and than months later they were all over the place. I bought my plant from Petsmart. I'm not sure what kind of snails they are but they don't seem to grow much. None were even close to half the size of a pea.
Just cleaned out my substrate, found a few more and took them out, they're all in a tupperware right now, I'll probably just boil them
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