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10-18-2002, 10:54 AM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Redding, Northern California
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|  Free Ramshorn snails for my friends at MyFishTank Hi everyone! I've got a 20 gallon tank full of baby great ramshorn snails. There are about a hundred and fifty in there and are the size of small marbles. They hatched around September 1st. I've never shipped animals in the mail before, but I'm willing to try if some of you can give me some advice. Anyway, I can ship you some of my snails if you pay for shipping and packaging. While supplies last!
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10-18-2002, 11:00 AM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Shadow Moses Island
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| Re: Free Ramshorn snails for my friends at MyFishT [quote author=Vyache link=board=comments&num=1034960091&start=0 #0 date=10/18/02 at 07:54:51] Hi everyone! I've got a 20 gallon tank full of baby great ramshorn snails. There are about a hundred and fifty in there and are the size of small marbles. They hatched around September 1st. I've never shipped animals in the mail before, but I'm willing to try if some of you can give me some advice. Anyway, I can ship you some of my snails if you pay for shipping and packaging. While supplies last! [/quote] What's ramshorn snail good for?
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10-18-2002, 02:29 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In a world of my own...
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| Re: Free Ramshorn snails for my friends at MyFishT Any idea how much the shipping would cost?
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10-22-2002, 11:53 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Redding, Northern California
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| Uh oh! Something went south! About 40 snails were floating at the surface today. I just fed them 2 days ago but they eat so darn fast I think these must not have gotten anything to eat! Gotta cull by way of clown loach snacks I guess! |
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10-23-2002, 12:58 AM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD
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| ru sure that the snails floating are dead? i know mystery snails float when they're full dunno about rams, aso make sure that the ammonia and nitrites is low snails are kinda messy after they eat |
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10-23-2002, 02:29 AM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Redding, Northern California
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| I just siphon vacuumed the tank into a five gallon bucket. It was friggin' filthy! After I dumped most of the water out of the buckets I noticed that it was teaming with life. Infrotrusia smorgesboard from adding all kinds of spinach to a 20 gallon tank with nothing but snails. Kind of cool, I poured some of the water in with my new betta fry. That should tide them over until my microworm culters are ready. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the floating snails were mostly dead ones, I poked at them and their trap doors wouldn't shut all the way. |
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10-23-2002, 12:56 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Oct 2002
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| Not sure but From what I know ramshorns don't have trap doors. They just pull themselves into their shells. and occasionally mine do float along the top sometimes, if ya push them to the sides they just might reach out and grab on. And in shipping a snail, I would think that you could stick them in a little bag, put a little bit of water in the bag and ship it first class. Want to make sure everybody gets some living ones? Stick a bunch of them in the bag, I'd assume one would make it alive. BTW, I have a ton of snails in my tank, you shouldn't have to go out of your way to feed them; they probably will get enough food from your fish feedings. BTWW, when my snails die, which isn't all that often, they usually end up on the bottom of the tank not the top |
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10-23-2002, 02:44 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Redding, Northern California
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| You must be thinking of a different kind of snail than I am speaking of. These are Great Ramshorn Snails. They definitely have little pieces of shell that close when they pull into their shell. I think that almost all aquatic snails do. They also defininately float when dead, maybe not at first but gases are produced as they decay and bubbles get trapped in their shell. Perhaps a larger snail would sink but these are small still. I picked out each individual snail in the tank and put them into either a "live snail" container and a "dead snail" container. I left them alone for a while and only two that I put in the dead container came out of their shells and started moving around. I vacuumed the tank and most of the snails that were in the gravel got sucked up into a bucket where I moved them into the live/dead containers. I think I actually removed every snail in the tank! |
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11-07-2002, 02:48 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In a world of my own...
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| i find my inca golds floating often so i doubt its that big of a deal. They are also often half out of their shell.
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