Snail eggs and fry

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Hi there.

I have set up a fry grow out tank ready to cycle. This is for the distant future as i'm not breeding yet. I thought I'd kill 2 birds with one stone by popping a couple of snails in there one to help it cycle and another to let them breed as i have a puffer to feed.

Well snails have done what they doo best and in just 3 days i have about 2000 snails eggs!

My question is, I'll be clearing the snails out to feed the puffer but there is likley to always be snails eggs in there, will they harm my fry when the time comes and so would it be better to start another fry tank and leave that one as a (rather large) snailery??

 

[wuvmybetta]

I would start another one. Snails are genuinely filthy creatures and I personally wouldn't have even one in with my fry. What kind of snails are they?

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Hmm thought as much!

I think they are Bladder/Tadpole/Pouch Snails - Family Physidae looking as rains post in the invert section.

I think i'll probably move tham to a smaller tank drain the grow out tank dry and start again with silk plants!

Thanks wuv you may have just saved me from snail hell!

 

[keith565]

Hi Guys.
i use infusoria snails in my rearing tanks. yep they do make a mess but the produce lots of infusoris for the very young fry.
once they are on bbs i use dwarf corys to help keep the tanks clean.

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Hi Guys.
i use infusoria snails in my rearing tanks. yep they do make a mess but the produce lots of infusoris for the very young fry.
once they are on bbs i use dwarf corys to help keep the tanks clean.

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Are insuforia snails a species of snails? I googled insuforia snails and all i got were threads about how snails were good for fry as they help insuforia development.