Breeding Snails

I am interested in breeding some kind of snail to feed to my spotted puffers to keep their beaks short. Any advice on what size setup I should have and how fast they can breed?

 

you wouldnt need that large of a setup, and pretty much all u need is to put a few in the tank and they will be breeding soon....might take a montho to raise them to a nice size though, but try it.

 

Do they need any type of aeration? I know a lot can live in pretty stagnant water.

 

i am not sure

 

Snails breath atmospheric air so no, you don't need aeration, but you should have filtration of some kind.

-Chelle

 

55 gallons seems pretty small for two oscars!

 

yea, it does....i jsut noticed that in his siggy too. 55 gallon is bare minimum for jsut one oscar.

 

Sorry, one more question, I hope you don't get mad at me for asking but, how can you have both a coldwater koi and a tropical/warm water pleco both in a 20 gallon tank?

 

I've heard it said that koi need at very least 12 inch deep water in a large pond. There is no way that a koi can survive for very long in a 20 gallon tank. The water quality would suffer very badly as well. The pleco also will grow too large for that small tank. Unfortunately they both have different needs as well. I'm afraid that koi and goldfish are better suited for ponds.

 

The koi is only 4 in long but it has been moved to a larger 55 gal tank that I was waiting on being cycled and as for the water temp it is in the low 70's which both seem to be okay in. My oscars are only about 5in right now. I know they will need a larger tank eventually but are okay for the moment.