Tbh I got snails to help my tank ,zero information is given its sad tbh so i looked around and found u, I quickly realized I was not caring for them the way they deserve ,after watching your tips I learned so much it made me run out and set up a tank just for them I added some rabbit snails , I'm trying to make snail food,😅 its fun I can't thank you enough for giving the information that changed there lives for the better!!! I love my snails 🥰your a snail mommy and I appreciate u 💖
Just wanted to say there are 40 more mystery snails in the world thanks to your videos. Thank you for the information provided. My snaily friends are all starting to color up and gobble up lots of food. You helped me avoid at least a dozen mistakes being a first-time mystery snail dad.
Found a hitch-hiker in my 20g tall and I was thrilled as I was looking locally at my local fish stores for a few snails. My plant provider guarantees ( no-snails ) so I'm like ''bummer'' I'll need to go get some. Thirty minutes later I saw something on my glass. I got out my best flashlight and looked at it and sure enough 'little feelers' !! So instantly I thought this can't be the only one, I searched hard but couldn't find another, bummer ! But WAIT ! There's more, the next morning I saw a pin head on my bio-film of a new piece of wood, again got out the light and wow, Micro-Snail. The cutest little tiny thing. Anyway, I'm up to four, two about a 1/4 inch long and two micro's. Love you and your videos, Thanks
Thank you! I love your videos!! I am working on a snail tank currently. It bums me out that there’s not MORE snail specific content so this is awesome!
Wow I just realized how lucky I was when my first mystery snail laid eggs and they all hatched and about 50% lived, maybe a bit less perhaps 40%. It was a whole lot of snails at any rate, they were in a 5 gallon tank without a heater and without a pump. ( dont yell at me I know! lol I do my best with the little $ i have.) So most of those snails lived a year or two but I never had any lay eggs again. So I am hoping to do better with my new snails.. I feel a bit more prepared, so I am praying for the best. Go forth Fraidy and Inky and multiply, live long and prosper!
Perfect timing. I have some babies raising up in the pea puffer food snail tank. Currently being very careful which snails I pluck out. 😬 A nursery tank is probably a better idea!
Dam I misread this as you putting baby mystery snails inside the pea puffer tank. Was about to say you really follow the "only the strong can belong" mentality 😅
Thanks for the support on the snail deaths, and the reassurance that I am not a bad hobbyist. I always assume I am a terrible fish owner after I lose livestock, and the reminder was helpful. Great video.
This video was so informative and well made. And oh my god your voice was so relaxing, i felt like i was in a guided meditation, that is if meditations were centered around breeding snails. Everything about your channel is so lovely! Thank you for the content, keep being awesome!
This is THE most helpful video on how to make a clutch LIVE & THRIVE. I’m so glad I found your video. I’ve watched dozens & this one will give me the leg up I need to have success
my first clutch of snails just hatched today and i came here for a refresher on their care, i had world of warcraft minimized in the background and thought, "thats not the right music for that zone..." then i realized it was YOUR music! do you play world of warcraft? i loooove the music from that game and it works so well with your videos!
Thank you for your helpful info on these fascinating and wonderful little creatures! I got my 1st mystery snail a while back as an after thought leaving my LFS to help with algae (some help more than others 😂), but I realized soon after what an absolute joy they are!! Fascinating , playful, & entertaining creatures and I can’t fathom living without at least one. I even have a designated mystery snail tank so that they can enjoy their life if my community tank is a bit too “crazy” (they simply do not live long enough ☹️) ❤🐌
The week after Christmas, I bought four mystery snails at my local Big Box fish store, a couple of ghost shrimp got caught up in the catch. The next week, I bought three more from a specialty fish store and 20 ghost shrimp from Big Box. Everyone lives in a 20 long and seem comfortable. I bought some supplies you recommended in other videos and the snails are doing extremely well! Got up this morning and saw a clutch on the back wall of the tank!!! Now I'm catching up on how to successfully raise them!!! Your videos ROCK!!!
Great video Lav! And yes, unfortunately these little guys to have a high mortality rate. I too didn't cull any snails, I just selected the future breeders and left the rest in the growout tank or in a non-sales tank. Thanks for sharing!
If you guys didn't know this is the ultimate mystery snail Guru! I will not seek advice for my snails from anyone but Lav! I have literally hatched thousands of babies using her methods precisely. My snails are perfect with absolutely perfect Spikes and perfect shells everything this Person tells you, you can consider it as good as gold!! I recommend subscribing and watching every single video not just this one!
I had a couple clutches hatch this week. So far, every single baby is still alive. They are super active, like to float on the surface, and are all eating regularly. I have been housing them in a separate container using the water from their parents' tank, and their water is the same temp as the parents' tank, which is 75F degrees. I've already been doing the things you mention here, but I wanted to watch this anyway to see if there was anything I hadn't thought of yet. I don't expect every single baby to live to adulthood. I am prepared for die-off. However, I do need some of these babies to stay alive. In general it would be nice for many of them to live on to adulthood and have great lives. The thing is, both moms and one of the dads have passed on. Therefore there's no trying again if no one makes it. The dad of one of the clutches, Reginald, died due to old age. The moms however, both escaped the tank, both ended up with shell injuries. Seraphine's shell was pretty much destroyed, and I did try to repair it, but her mantle collapsed. Madeline lived for a week after I repaired her shell, but she died the night after Reginald passed. Reginald had been spending a lot of time with Madeline (they only mated with each other, by the way), "cuddling" but not mating, and after Reginald passed, Madeline crawled into his face sleep spot and stayed there all day. Madeline had her own sleep spot that was on the other side of the tank, and she would never sleep anywhere else. It was very unusual for her. I woke up suddenly around 3am, and figured maybe I needed to use the bathroom or something, turned on the light and found that Madeline's mantle had collapsed. I think it's up for debate how attached snails get, but she was fine, like perfectly fine and acting like her usual self until Reginald died. So I really need these babies to live, because they are all that remains of their parents.
Love this video thanks so much my mystery snails are going crazy on hatching and I was wondering how much to feed them...keep making ur vids I look forward to watching your new vids
My snails just laid a clutch for the first time, and I've never used a breeder box. How do you clean it? Turkey baster? 🧐 Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! Invaluable! 🐌🥒✨
Hi there. I see a few unanswered questions re: vacuuming tanks containing babies. I'm a cheapskate and use the pipe off a turkey baster with the small end shoved into a length of soft tube. The wider end is the vacuum "foot" and I bend/crimp/pinch the tube to control the flow. I can hover a centimetre/quarter inch to suction light detritus, like faeces or food rot. I also wriggle the wide end into the base strata to get at sunken silt. *Here's the "catch" ...* As soon as I see sand / pebbles / snails / mollusks / shrimps / rocks / idiot fish / wotev in the turkey baster pipe, I *CRIMP THE TUBE* to halt the flow and lift the pipe away from the base (but still below the water line) and give it a shake. You'll see the grit etc fall and as soon as it does, uncrimp the hose to get rid of the lighter muck and stuff. Of course, the pipe gets blocked every now and then, but it's easy enough to rip it off the tube, bash the obstruction out and reconnect. It takes a bit of practice (of course) but I was pretty _au fait_ by the end of my first attempt, and haven't looked back. Hope this helps! 🙃
Hi Lav I'm new to this but I recently got 5 clutches in 3 weeks from 2 snails so might have some babies!! 😂 my question is how in the world do you vacuum the bottom of your tank with all the babies????
Howdy. I posted my method up above ☝️ To each their own 🤓 I don't know what you vacuum with, but having a transparent pipe so you can keep and eye on what you're suctioning up certainly helps. gl with your housework! 😁
Great video, I’ve been thinking about breedingMYSTERY SNAILS and you have helped me decide…. YES! I’m going to try it. I really enjoyed your video, gave you a thumbs up 👍🏻and subscribed to you. I can’t wait to check out your other videos. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.l’m sure I’ll have some questions for you soon. Again Thank you so much , Martin from Central Florida.
hi Lavnyia i finally got a tank for my baby snails to live in. Thank you for your great advice and thank you for offering to help us. You are awesome and you are so much help with my snails.
Interesting. I was mostly curious if they would survive on their own as my mystery snails have laid about twenty clutches on the pond sides. Fish must be eating all the babies. Yet the common snails seem to multiply every time I look. Soothing video.
Cool video 😎 I just had a clutch hatch myself! How do you know which ones are dead on the bottom of the box? I want to clean but I don’t know how to separate them!
What type of filtration do you recommend? I have 3 mystery snails and hopefully I will begin to get clutches from them. I really love these guys! They are so much fun to watch.
My snail died I found him in a pond while collecting soil and water for my ecosphere for my microscope, I was pretty sad but I expected it, I was waiting for my friend to come pick it up. Live and learn, just sad my find had to die for my curiosity 😔 but now I know! Thank you so much haha because I was discouraged I don’t wanna be a snail killer but I also want to have some!
OMG I stopped counting at 25 babies and they are all in my regular 25 gallon tank! If there are dead ones I can’t tell with all the plants and substrate. How do I vacuum without sucking them up and how will I get dead ones out if I don’t see them? Oh my .. 1st time snail mom!
HI there Lava, such an informative video thank you. How do you know if the snail dies? I know for adult ones they say you can smell it (which i refuse to do LOL), but how can you tell if baby dies? thanks again!
My apologies I must've missed this comment. Kelseyy is correct; They look pale or white and may also float. 👍🐌💜 ty Kelseyy & my apologies again Katerina 🙏
@@LavsSnails it's ok - i made up my own way - if they dont move they dead LOL :) but yes, also didn't notice the body. the shells being white was very helpful also
Hello, thank you for your very helpful videos I really appreciate it! May I ask if it’s possible to do the videos without the music? Or maybe different style music? I think it’s supposed to be peaceful zen type music your playing but it mostly sounds super creepy lol and it is hard for me to turn up the volume to hear u without blaring the creepy music too.
Question: I have a ten-gallon tank and would like to know if I should add the baby snails to this tank immediately upon hatching. I worry they won't get the air that they need since they can't reach the top of the tank. I currently have the babies in a breeder box..which raises a question here too: If I keep them in the breeder box, is it necessary to have a tiny air filter in there as well? Or does the breeder tank not need one? Thank you in advance!
Speaking from complete ignorance here so excuse what may be a very dumb question. Why do you crush the clutch and drop to the bottom of tank. Was that killing the clutch or separating them when they mature?
How do you feel about a little sand layer in the breeder box? Think it would be easy ier to clean that way. How often do we change out food every day 8 hours 12? Ordered a bunch of food from crayfish since it gets here before my first hatches. Got some quick ammonia test strips from coop to keep an eye on the build up as well. I have a spare 10 gallon I coule use as a grow up tank once there pea size. But im also not opposed to water changing every day. Since at this point with all my tanks I do 1 tank a day anyway. And extra 15 mins for the snails would be no bother. As for plants I tend to stick to anubis should I look into plants that help control nitrates as well? Or perhaps a plant that feeds heavy from the water column itself s an option for the big snail tank.
Hi I’m a new mom Fr the baby mystery snails and I was wondering do you feed the baby snails everyday? And how long can u leave a wafer algae in? And as the blood worms how long do you leave it in the tank? As for now they are in a 3 gallon tank.
Hi! I have soooooo many babies. I was not trying to have babies. I did not know how to clean my tank with all the babies in there. I’m putting cucumbers in the tank to attract them then TRY TO MOVE THEM TO A NEW TANK. How do you clean a snail tank??? Thanks
This is my first time hatching a snail clutch and I was wondering when baby snails die do they float or sink to the bottom of the breeder box. I've been watching all sorts of videos on hatching a clutch but I can't seem to find the answer to my question. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
This may be a dumb question but how do I know when 1 has died? I have 6 clutches right now in a breeder box. What size aquarium would be best to keep them allnin?? TY!!!!
Love watching your videos! I have a question about the eggs. So two days ago my blue snail lay eggs and today I saw that the clutch fell into the water. I’m so sad because I don’t know if they are dead or not. I pulled the clutch out of the water and made an incubator for them. It was under water for like 3-4 hours. Do you think that the clutch isn’t good anymore?
How do I know if my baby mystery snails are alive? Yesterday some were climbing up breader box but today it looks like none are moving or may be upside down
How do you know which ones are alive and which are dead? I seem to have hundreds of them and they're obviously moving because they are all over the filter and walls of the tank but there are manny on the ground and I'm not sure if they are alive. My baby snails share a tank with my baby fry. Is this ok?
Very high mortality rate?! It’s been two weeks and I’d say I’m at at least 95% 🙃 I just left the crushed egg clutch in there and they ate that along with a teeny bit of an algae wafer. My molly fry, however, I’m about 33% 😭.
Hey! Thanks so much for the helpful videos. I've been incubating some clutches and they've started to hatch. A local fish store is going to take them when they're about 1cm diameter. I'm wondering how much space the babies need? Do you have a rule as far as how many you would comfortably hatch in x size aquarium?
Question you talk about culling Now I had a blue mystery snail a golden mystery snail and ivory mysteries snail.. I had clutches of eggs that I thought were unfertile well one hatched.. The offspring have white foot Red Pearl iridescents on ice and foot yellow shell but with blue swirl in the twirl the shell... What and how would I call these as mixed wise they're all the same maybe a handful with yellow foot and no pink eyes
Because I had eight more clutches pretty much hatch or are hatching still and then two different older sets of clutches.. my first clutch survived about 15 second set survived 60 to 75 and new clutches I don't know yet
Thank you so much for info am a new snail owner and have about 300 babies. They are so fun they see me dropping in snello and they drop off the side going for it should I feed more
I have two clutches, love my snails but clueless about breeding... what were you doing crunching up the clutch? Was it empty and then provided food for the babies? I didn’t hear it talked about if I missed it...
i had started off with 3 adult mystery snails and they had baby's,now i have TOO many babys snails,i would like to get rid of them but I don't know how to.
I had my first mystery snail hatch 8 days ago. Now I have 5 baby snails crawling around the tank. As far as I can tell, they seem to be hatching at a rate of only one every day or two. Is that normal? The third snail that was born, when I first saw it, it was on the wall of the tank right next to the daddy snail :) It even moved a bit closer to its daddy til it was nestled right up against him. It was very cute! But I expect just coincidence? I doubt there's much of a parent instinct in them?
I've taken up mystery snail breeding as a hobby now, and have a good 200 or so in a 40 gallon tank at the moment. I find once the snails hatch, I lose extremely few. The problem I have is that most eggsacks only hatch maybe 10-20% of the eggs in the clutch. So it's not that have a high die-off among baby snails, it's that most of the eggs never produce a baby snail to begin with. Occasionally I have a highly successful eggsack that hatches more like 80-90%, and quite a lot of eggsacks (maybe half of them) produce zero babies.
If your clutch isn't producing a high amount of snails, it is most likey due to the humidity levels where the clutch lays during incubation. You have been very lucky to have such good survival rates with the young. The other reason the clutch may not produce babies could be; Female mysteries will lay clutches regardless if the eggs have been fertilized by a male or not. The clutch of eggs will still be layed. So yes, in that scenario, many clutches may be void of any embryos to begin with and hence not produce any snails at all. I like to call those "practice clutches". My videos try to show what has worked for me in my personal tank setups. Your outcomes with breeding will potentially be vastly different from mine. I am just simply providing tips that have worked for me. Congratulations on your breeding success!🐌💜
From my initial venture with mystery snail breeding 5 months ago, I ended up with 662 baby snails that grew up big enough to be taken in to my local fish store, and then exactly and only 1 that had a shell defect that made him unsaleable, and that little guy ended up in my shrimp tank where he is getting along well enough to this day. I did find 3 baby snail shells big enough that their death was particularly disappointing, one of them lost his operculum somehow, one fell victim to poor water conditions in a tank that I stopped using after that incident (two others in that tank survived just fine - it was a very small tank that I didn't keep many snails in), while the third one's death is a mystery to me. I found a small number (no more than a dozen) of very tiny empty baby shells over the months. So I lost 15 babies that I know of, had 1 with a shell defect, and 662 healthy, happy snails. That's not counting any of the ~200 that I currently have! :D
@@LavsSnails I have tried incubating about a dozen eggsacks by now, and not one incubated eggsack was successful. All the babies I've gotten have come from eggsacks that I leave on the walls. In my current 40 gallon set-up I have a thick sheet of plexiglass that covers about 3/4 of the top of the tank, and the most successful eggsacks are the ones laid close to where the lid ends. They get some benefit of retained heat and humidity, but also a continual source of fresh air besides. The eggsacks that are fully covered by the lid all the time (I do take the lid off for a bit daily to do maintenance and feeding, but it's on nearly the whole day long) don't do nearly so well, which is probably the problem of too much humidity. Sometimes the eggsacks are even heavily covered in water droplets! And the wall of the tank with the filter hanging over it can't have any lid on it, and I currently have 11 eggsacks on that wall, but some of them are being damaged by the splash of the water coming out of the filter, while those out of reach of splash damage aren't doing much at all. Not sure if it is the humidity or the temperature that is wrong, or both, but that turns out to not be a good spot for egg development, even if it is a popular spot for egg laying. That said, with my first pair of snails 6 months ago, the first 5 or 6 eggsacks that the female laid only produced a total of 7 baby snails (6 from one eggsack, 1 from another), and then successful eggsacks started coming soon thereafter. So perhaps for all the adult female snails I have currently, they may well still be in practice mode and the more successful eggsacks are still to come. Although I feel like ~200 baby snails in my 40 gallon tank is about as many as should be in there, it is feeling crowded to me, so maybe it is better if there isn't too much success too soon so I can clear out some of the current crop before I start getting more successful eggsacks!
I have a lot of snails, beacuse for a while I had a lot of clutches, and only 12 of my baby snails lived beacuse I kept them in poor conditions back then :(
This is my first adventure into raising mystery snails. You say remove dead baby snails. How do I really tell if they are dead? Also, I am seeing what may be tiny bugs - they're not mites. They kind of look like the snails, but when I magnify them, I can see that they are zipping around in the gravel. They are dark and have an oval shape. When I look at the gravel magnified, I am also seeing very thin, pinkish worms. EEK! What should I do? I've tried to do some research, and I see that most of the things that fit these descriptions are not harmful to my snails, but yuk! Really? I want to clean the tank, but I have so many tiny babies in there!
A dead baby snail will usually turn white and they may float. I usually go by color and movement. If i suspect there is death I clean the breeder box and "reset" it so to speak. Sounds like detritus worms and perhaps copepods or seed shrimp maybe? Yes, harmless to the snails but unsightly for sure. Definitely a cleaning will help. I have a video that shows how I clean a whole tank with babies in it, if you're interested on my page as well. Best of luck with them! 👍🐌💜
I just had my first baby snails, only 22 and a week later still see about 15 to 18. Some have gotten bigger. Are crushed egg shells good for calcium in the breeder box.
