SNAILS! Rabbit Snails, Assassin Snails, Ramshorn and Malaysian Trumpet Snails

Everything you need to know about Assassin Snails, Rabbit Snails, Ramshorn Snails and Malaysian Trumpet Snails! Keeping, feeding and breeding!

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Here, I tell you all about the four different freshwater aquarium snails I keep in my fish room.
Assassin Snails (Clea Helena) are carnivorous and predatory. Clea Helena have been known to eat cherry shrimp (although they typically leave them alone in favor of eating other snails, they can sometimes develop a taste for dwarf shrimp). If your aquarium has many pest snails that you would like to get rid of, Assassin Snails can be a solid choice for controlling or even eliminating them. Pond snails, bladder snails, pest snails, ramshorn snails and even Malaysian Trumpet Snails are all just yummy snacks for Clea Helena. They've even been known to gang up on large Apple Snails as a group.
If you don't have other pest snails to feed Clea Helena, you can feed them other high protein foods, such as bloodworms, live blackworms or shrimp pellets.
Breeding Assassin Snails can be relatively easy if you have a male and a female and provide them with someplace to lay their eggs. Clea Helena eggs are like little paper tags that contain a single snail egg.

Rabbit Snails are one of my favorite types of freshwater aquarium snails. They grow much larger than Malaysian Trumpet Snails and come in multiple colors. This makes rabbit snails an attractive addition to the freshwater fish tank. Rabbit snails are also pretty slow breeders, giving birth to a single baby snail at a time. Interestingly, these aquarium snails do not lay eggs. They are livebearers.

Malaysian trumpet snails are another livebearing freshwater aquarium snail. MTS can give birth to 70 baby snails at a time! Malaysian trumpet snails can be beneficial to a planted aquarium because they burrow into the the substrate which stirs up the substrate and aerates it for the plant roots. MTS do not eat live plants but will eat dead plant leaves, algae, leftover food, fish waste, dead fish...pretty much anything that is not alive, the malaysian trumpet snail will eat it.

Ramshorn snails are another favorite freshwater aquarium snail of mine. The variety I keep are the blue ramshorn snails.
Ramshorn snails are egg layers and will lay several eggs at once, covered in a "jelly" pouch. You'll find these egg sacks on aquarium glass, driftwood, rocks, etc..
Like MTS, ramshorn snails are omnivores who will eat pretty much anything that is available to them except for live plants, making them a nice choice for a planted tank.

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