Post by Evil Angel on Oct 13, 2011 17:33:31 GMT
At the moment I have all my snails in a 17 gallon tank, but now they've grown up a bit I'm planning a much better tank for them.
I've found a 110 litre storage tub, sadly it's not clear, but its impossible to find a clear one in that size, and I'm sure my snails won't mind too much
I'm also planning on getting a 20watt 17" - 11" heat mat for it.
The size of the tub will give me room to play around with so I'm going to try planting some spider and ivy plants from my own mother plants.
Then I think I'm going to fill the tank with soil and then plant the plants and maybe add some worms to eat up the snail poop and stuff to massively cut down on clean-outs, add a rock and maybe a log and get them a new food dish, and maybe fill a ice-cream tub with moss and bury it in the tank for them.
What do you all think? Is that ok, or is there anything I should do differently??
I did see someones tank that used some sort of material on the bottom instead of soil and added a couple of tubs: one filled with soil and the other moss, and they said it was much easier that way to clean them out and stuff as she could just pick up the dirt from the floor, but couldn't work out what it was she actually used on the base..?
Anyway, any advice/suggestions would be very helpful! thanks
I've found a 110 litre storage tub, sadly it's not clear, but its impossible to find a clear one in that size, and I'm sure my snails won't mind too much
I'm also planning on getting a 20watt 17" - 11" heat mat for it.
The size of the tub will give me room to play around with so I'm going to try planting some spider and ivy plants from my own mother plants.
Then I think I'm going to fill the tank with soil and then plant the plants and maybe add some worms to eat up the snail poop and stuff to massively cut down on clean-outs, add a rock and maybe a log and get them a new food dish, and maybe fill a ice-cream tub with moss and bury it in the tank for them.
What do you all think? Is that ok, or is there anything I should do differently??
I did see someones tank that used some sort of material on the bottom instead of soil and added a couple of tubs: one filled with soil and the other moss, and they said it was much easier that way to clean them out and stuff as she could just pick up the dirt from the floor, but couldn't work out what it was she actually used on the base..?
Anyway, any advice/suggestions would be very helpful!
thanks 
