Large Golden Apple Snail Ampullaria Diffusa

Hi there, yes i have one of these ^.^ He's called Goldy, and is growing fast, and YES they DO eat living plant matter, the little critter pretty much destroyed my plant set up ¬¬ I'm sure he'd eat rotting stuff too, but he sure went for my live plants and gave them a good chew!
 
i have loads in my Betta tanks, never had any problems with them eating live plants, mine eat only dead plant.

I have all colours, Pink, Purple, Blue, Ivory, Gold & Browns
 
lilfishie you're lucky, mine ruined my plants :( he's now in a home of his own, sharing with my african clawed frog :p
 
SLIM i notice your in Leicester :) my partner has some eggs that should be hatching next week that are cross between a Blue Male and Purple Striped Female :good:
 
WORD OF CAUTION WITH APPLE SNAILS AND ACF!

I nearly lost one of my ACF due to an apple snail - - when the apple snail gets startled, ex: frog swims by it, the snails closes up instictively. Their trapdoor is made out of the same material as their outer shell and is extremely hard to break.

My male ACF Louie, startled a snail and it instictively closed up - and accidentally caught Louie's arm in the process. Due to the weight of the snail, the frog could not surface for air and was on his back, drowning, when I came home from work.

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The problem was, not only was it stuck where the trapdoor meets the outer shell, but snails twist when they retract into their shell and his arm was twisted inside the snail. Also, the weight of the snail combined with the panicked frog caused the arm to be thrashed, twisted and pulled. It was several weeks before color normalized and the frog regained full use of his arm.

It took nearly an hour to free the arm of the frog from the snail. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice the snail to save the frog but it was a decision I had to make. Towards the 30 min mark of us trying to pry the snail open, the frog had become listless (went into shock) and we could no longer put off the inevitable - prying the snail apart with pliers. We had to rip tiny pieces of the shell off at a time to free the arm, it took so long because the broken edges of the shell were exceptionally sharp and could have severed his arm if he jumped during the process.

Note, these pictures of his healing are taken more than a week after the incident.

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Needless to say, you have not seen a snail in my tanks since.
 
oh goodness me, i have my acf (Splashy) in a little tank with an apple snail! I think i'll remove the snail :p
 
oh goodness me, i have my acf (Splashy) in a little tank with an apple snail! I think i'll remove the snail :p

:huh: how little? ACF need a minimum of 10 gallons for one frog. :look:
 
The only problem I have with apple snails is that they keep dying :(

I've one extremely large one and I've had him years and he's doing well but I've had 4 smaller ones in the same & different tanks to the big one and they all died within a year. No idea why.
 
The only problem I have with apple snails is that they keep dying :(

I've one extremely large one and I've had him years and he's doing well but I've had 4 smaller ones in the same & different tanks to the big one and they all died within a year. No idea why.

what do you feed them
 
What do you feed yours Al? would like to give my lot some variety :good:

Algae waffers,cucumer,end of tomato,Spinach,tums and last of all when i had tanks full of them (500+ apples) i baked them snail cookies :good:

lots of different ways an easy one was:

ground up dog food
greens baby food
fish flakes
frozen blood worms
crushed egg shell
honey

All up to a pulpy mess and bake it at 225 for a few hours
 
Sounds Tasty :sick: Mine get various pellets, vegs and frozen blood worm weekly as well as there calcium :) anything they shouldn't have?
 

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