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Post by shaydeesnail on May 30, 2012 13:21:00 GMT
I've kept a pair of Oxychilus (probably cellarius) in a tank with other snails before, and provided with fish flakes as well as veggies, they never touch any of the other snails. Recently there were 3 slightly darker smaller (probably juvenile) glass snails in the moss that I brought back, I decided to let them live with my smaller snails. I've never seen them eat any veggies, but I assumed they were eating when I wasn't looking. It turns out they were eating... The other snails! Is it likely that they are completely carnivorous? If so, is there anything I could feed them so I could keep them in a separate tank? Or will I have to let them go? I feel so guilty for the snails that got munched  |
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Post by vallery on May 30, 2012 13:52:03 GMT
Glass snails will eat rotted vegetation like really old leaves I pile the leave and they like to go underneath them.they will eat Gold fish food as well and I give mine powdered egg shells for calcium. the other horrible thing is you can feed them unwanted eggs from other snails just bury them in the terrarium somewhere they are hunters. I learned this from coyote. You could PM her I'm sure she could help you.
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Post by pinkunicorn on May 30, 2012 20:42:57 GMT
Did your oxies do well on the diet of fish flakes? Logically it should be enough nutrition-wise, because especially the high-protein flakes are equal to fresh meat, but whether a wild-caught oxy will accept a new diet is another question. I'd assume tank-bred ones have no trouble eating just fish flakes.
I'd in fact guess that's what happened with your oxies. The ones you got now were not used to the fish food diet and thus ate what they were used to eating in the wild. Perhaps a quarantine period of re-adjusting their taste buds to fish food would make it possible to keep them with prey snails... but that's just a hypothesis!
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Post by vallery on May 30, 2012 22:18:00 GMT
Mine are all wild caught and when I first offered them fish flakes I have never seen them move so fast and gobble it. I will always keep them in a separate tank, aside from other snails eggs they eat baby snails as well. Instinct I believe they are simply hunters. They had everything they needed yet still eat the eggs and by chance if an egg hatched they ate the baby snail. I believe they can survive on fish flakes and rotted vegetation but I would never put them together with other captive snails. They are carnivores. I provide layers of leave above the drainage rocks and earth for the purpose of rotted leaf vegetation for them to eat and they love to lay underneath moss.
Hope this helps.
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Post by shaydeesnail on May 31, 2012 18:06:39 GMT
They all seem to like the fish flakes, but they still want to munch the other snails. It's strange that my other two that were also wild caught never bothered the other snails. There are some babies recently hatched from eggs of the previous two, I hope they don't go cannibal too! I've got them in a separate tub now, I think I'll release them, thanks guys  |
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Post by vallery on May 31, 2012 21:42:55 GMT
You should keep them they are lovely snails. You just have to keep them in their own tank. |
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Post by pinkunicorn on Oct 15, 2012 23:22:10 GMT
I had three oxys but I just found the smallest as but an empty shell! He was doing well and growing not a long ago, then seemed to get shy. I am not sure if he died and was consumed by the others or if they cannibalised him. Such a shame. He was a cute baby. I'm unsure if he was the baby hatched in my care or the one I adopted from outside a short while ago.
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