New snail owner - fulica

[lilithn]

Hello!

I completly fell in love with snails ower past few months and 3 weeks ago, I got myself a baby fulica and yesterday I got 2 more. Right now the first one is in a small tank (since it's still a baby) and other two are in their quarantine tank. Once the baby will grow enough, I want to keep them together but I have a hard time figuring out how big should a tank be. I saw there is a calculator for this but sadly, the site isn't working.

Can someone help me please?

[SuspiciousBagel]

Hi there! Glad to hear about your new snails. As a general rule you need 3 litres of space per cm of shell on the snails as a bare minimum. Not sure how it goes as far as having multiple in one space though. I know full size fulicas need a lot of space, mine is by itself and in a 45 x 45 x 30cm container and I wouldn't keep it in anything much smaller but maybe another full size snail would fit ok in there too if its any help. You'll be able to put them together when the baby is at least half the length (of shell) as the other snails.

[lilithn]

Thank you so much for your answer. I was looking to get a tang which is 80x40x40 centimiters (125 liters). Should I go even bigger?

[SuspiciousBagel]

If the snails are not full grown yet I'd say that is too big. But when they are at their full size (at around a year old) that would make a very nice tank for them!