Mystery Snail Care and Breeding: Your Friendly Neighborhood Algae Eater!

Hello Everyone,
In this video we discuss how to keep mystery snails alive. They can be a great peaceful addition to a community tank. Mystery snails do a great job of cleaning up algae and detritus. Mystery snails can also be a great addition to a planted tank.

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[PrimeTimeAquatics]

Here are some videos on water parameters important to keeping snails alive!

[zackrizel]

I have a million snails and there all named Gary lol

[amy-ldpe]

my beta fish is so sweet and gentle, he loves to watch the snails move, and he follows them around a lot. He’s never picked at them and they both love each other’s company!

[midwestmasocist]

The only reason I keep snails is because they're adorable in my opinion. Their little antennas(probably not what they're called) are my favorite.

[jenalvarado]

So I love the snails cuz they do keep my tank clean I have had them for years but the craziest thing happened to
Me and i had to share.... so when I do water changes or tank changes I always check for snails and baby fish throughly and then toss the old water into my cactus garden. I have cacti from all over! I even had one shipped from japan! One of my favorite cacti wasn’t thriving anymore, it seemed to not ever be able to retain much water. This summer the temps reached over 100 a few times and I assumed it was just too hot and burnt out. So I decided to flake off all the dead parts and bring it indoors. You guys will never believe what I found!!! On the base of my cactus plant was a huge mystery snail (about 3 inches!) attached super tightly into the base it had been there so long that it had formed a perfect snail shaped cave right into the cactus! I took pictures it looks so crazy! An aquarium animal inside a cactus?! Life is amazing isn’t it always finds a way to survive. Don’t know why this gave me such joy

[CherokeeMaiden]

While feeding my guppies earlier I noticed my snails at the surface making a funnel with their bodies, catching the flakes and eating them. It was so cute, like watching a rabbit eat lettuce. I didn't realize 🐌 had such a distinguishable head. That shell hides a lot of cuteness.

[catfishcave]

Nice video on the Mystery Snail. Maybe people will give snails more respect now.
And for those who are interested...
How to keep Malaysian Trumpet Snails: Add live plants to your aquarium that are guaranteed to not have snails. Three months later, you have 30 of them. Three years later, you have 300. Three hundred years later, (and seven nuclear wars, 3 alien invasions and a direct meteor hit) your great great great great great great granddaughter will have 299 Malaysian Trumpet Snails.

[sarahville]

I love, love, LOVE mystery snails! I started with one and it was so cool to watch that I got another! I am now an accidental snail rancher with hundreds of snails! They are funny, fantastic, magical creatures!
For those of you with soft water, I have really soft water and I've found that it helps to add crushed coral and cuttlebones to the tank. Snails actually need to have calcium in the water column AND a calcium source to eat. I've found that cuttlebones are a great way to provide the dietary calcium.
If you had told me a year ago that I would become a huge mystery snail geek, I would not have believed it! Definitely consider adding these magical creatures to your tank!

[sandyrodriguez]

Sir, if you haven't done so already, could you do a quick video on the different types of freshwater snails ... at least the popular aquarium ones.

[sarahhumphreys]

Aghhh!!! My mystery snails just gave birth!! ITS SO TINY!!!!

[richardschaeffer]

I have 4 female betas in a 20 gallon heavily planted. I added 6 ramshorns and 4 adult mystery snails. After 3 months they started dying, and many had thin shells. Feed them and add mineral balls. Now I have at least 100 super tiny ramshorns and the mystery snails laid eggs. In the past 6 months, I've never scraped any algae NONE to be seen. Feed 2 times a week, pleco pellets. And the tanks alive with color. ❤

[sea_triscuit]

When my brother moved in with me he took a liking to my aquarium. I told him he could get a Mystery Snail bc it wouldn't be a problem for my other fish haha. A month or two later and now "Swirly" is the biggest animal in my tank haha

[jrhelton]

Also with food as well you can feed them more then just that. I feed mine UNSALTED green beans, blanched Zucchini, snello, blanched Carrots, and cucumbers.

[comedyfootball]

3 mystery snails... 4 mystery snails have appeared out of no where in my guppy fry tank. Something tells me they are in love with the tank. They are growing fast!!!

[williamreely]

I had a few mystery snails hitch a ride in on some freshwater plants I bought. Sometimes I see my cherry shrimp following them around and cleaning their shells, it's very cute.

[hobbithabits]

Ironically my mystery snail named Bean ONLY eats carnivore pellets and blood worms. He wont dare touch the algae.

[Kittychimes]

I never thought I would love aquatic snails the way I do, but my mystery babies are all so precious to me. I cried when I saw our first little wee bebe. I love them; so fascinating!!

[Cameronfelt]

I’ve been researching cause I want snails, just snails :) everyone treats them as such a second thought but I love them 💚💚💚

[vicycross]

my mystery snail zooms all over the tank and eats anything...even driftwood. i tried giving him boiled kale but he ignored it. he'll eat sinking pellets and detritus on the substrate. mystery snails are a lot of fun to watch--they definitely have personality!

[bigsky]

Snails are a must in shrimp aquariums! Shrimp eat their poop & it has beneficial bacteria for their gut!
LOVE MYSTERY SNAILS!❤❤❤❤❤😁😁😁