Hi,

I just joined this group today.
I have always wanted to raise apple snails and I think I can get the help here.
I have a 55 gal. fish tank, nothing in it but guppies. I put two apple snails in the tank and they died after a few weeks, I'm sure the reason was food. All they had was a little alge growing in the tank. I was reading in this group to feed them vegs, I didn't know you could do that. But I know it now.
My question is this. Is this tank to big for 3 or 4 apple snails? When I feed them will they be able to find the food in such a large tank?
What is the best things to feed the apple snail in a large tank and how much?
Sorry for asking so many questions but I don't want them to starve again. Can you help?

Hope I can find the answers when you answer, this is my first post.

Thanks for your time.

Plow Boy

Welcome to the group!
I know very little about snails, but have found that by typing out "apple snails" on the Internet you can certainly obtain lots of information about them, and their habits. I personally don't think you need to be concerned about your tank being too big. I certainly wish that I had a tank that large!
Cheers.

Golden snails need a male and female to breed. Once they get started as long as conditions are right they breed like rabbits. The needs about 1 to 2 inches of space at the top of your tank since they lay their eggs above the water (in my pond they lay them on my tall plants). The clutch takes anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks to hatch. I move the eggs into a small tank and float them on styrofoam until they hatch. I have about 25 baby snails now in about 6 inches of water. They don't need much more than that. I have no filter in the tank but do change the water ever two weeks. I feed mine leaf lettuce and cucumber. The love it.

Good luck.