Help for choosing right species

[incantrix]

I've been keeping fulica and margies but I've got a spare tank and would like to get something a bit more exotic. Has anyone got any suggestions for my next snail and where would you get it from? I've had a look through the adverts and shops but can't make my mind up. A pair of tigers would be great, are they hard to keep?

Renamed.- Crossless

[felix93]

To me, tigers are not the one the easy species. I tried a lot of different methods to keep them but they end to be very laid back and they don't come out in the day time or even meal time. I rarely see them at all. I think some members mentioned theirs are not as laid back as mine. But then mine are all WC, so may be CB are different (I hope to keep a few of them when lottie's weather is getting warmer.)

[sezzy5889]

Just because they are lazy doesn't mean they are hard to keep!
thats just the way tigers are and you have to except it, I don't think thye are hard to keep at all, i just keep them exactly the same as my margies and they are thriving, i don't see mine much either and sometimes they sleep for weeks at a time, but they are plump and are growing so i know they are fine :-)

[Nat]

I haven't found tigers difficult at all. Even my wild caught. Pg wakes up every night when I plonk her on the food dish.

I have found blondes to be the hardest to keep, but others haven't. I think its down to individual batches/snails to be honest.

What about albino margies, retis, iredalei, rodatzii. Theres lots of species to choose from, go with what you like as any could turn out to be hard or easy. I think the size of the tank they are going in may be a deciding factor too

Nat

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rodatzi, smithii and reticulata are nice

[felix93]

nat said:

I haven't found tigers difficult at all. Even my wild caught. Pg wakes up every night when I plonk her on the food dish.

I have found blondes to be the hardest to keep, but others haven't. I think its down to individual batches/snails to be honest.

True. I found the 2 tones are one of the easist but there are a lot of members would disagree with that. I probably have some awkard tigers, 3 of them are exactly the same, they can sleep for weeks and ALSO loose weight, so I know they have not eaten. I lost 2 tigers recently, and I am going to give another go, if I have no luck, that's it.

I would accept if the tigers are just laid back, that's fine. But it's not the case with mine.

[Paul]

What heat and humidity do you keep them at? Mine love warmth and wet with humidity being more important.

My captive-bred juvenile tigers are much more active than the wc adults, it could be age but I think that they adjust to the conditions much better. For instance, they are in an unheated tank at about 22-23c, 3-4 degrees cooler than the adults but they are much more active. They also have a much richer variety in their diet because they'll eat absolutely anything.

I suspect that the above points to much easier breeding than has been experienced in the past generally, when they finally reach maturity.

Of course, illness could be a factor although during the problems I had a bit back with a handful of species, my tigers have all been fine.

[felix93]

admin said:

What heat and humidity do you keep them at? Mine love warmth and wet with humidity being more important.

My captive-bred juvenile tigers are much more active than the wc adults, it could be age but I think that they adjust to the conditions much better. For instance, they are in an unheated tank at about 22-23c, 3-4 degrees cooler than the adults but they are much more active. They also have a much richer variety in their diet because they'll eat absolutely anything.

I suspect that the above points to much easier breeding than has been experienced in the past generally, when they finally reach maturity.

Of course, illness could be a factor although during the problems I had a bit back with a handful of species, my tigers have all been fine.

I ain't sure if they are getting on a bit now or not, that's the problems with WC. I keep mine in the bathroom, which is always @ 28 - 29C, I spray the tank every day twice a day and the bath room is humid enough I should imagine. I tried to keep them with the margies, the 2 tones or just on their own but am struggling to keep them "alive". I put heat mats underneath the tank in the past, they escaped and stayed away from the heat mats, so I took that off. I even tried to locate them in other rooms which are slightly cooler, but I still have no luck. I don't think mine are just so laid back and don't want to come out. It's either they are getting old or just given up. I really don't know.

To be honest, I cannot wait for lottie's CB baby tigers now. May be I will change how I feel about tiger snails.

[LisaLQ]

My dimis/two-tones are the hardest to please. My easiest is probably my reticulata - the added bonus being he can live in with the fulicas, unlike the margies and two-tones - as he prefers it much drier. Well not dry, but not as wet as the margies!

I love margies too - mine have been really easy to keep - although Boycie and Marlene refused to eat when they first arrived, it was short lived and they now eat like pigs ;D

Dunno about tigers - I'm hoping to get some Brixtons in the summer, 2 of them. And I'm currently raising 4 newly hatched tiger babies, and if all goes well, I'll be keeping one of those too.

So I'd go for a reticulata or an albino margie.

[sezzy5889]

doesn't have to be albino

[incantrix]

Thanks for all the replies, I'll have to have a good think about it but Reticulata sound promising - it would be nice to have one I could keep with my Fulica.

[sezzy5889]

I have a reticulata you could have if you want, but he won't be ready for a couple of weeks?

[LisaLQ]

sezzy5889 said:

doesn't have to be albino

The OP said they already had margies and wanted something different, hence the albino idea.

[Ruth]

sezzy5889 said:

I have a reticulata you could have if you want, but he won't be ready for a couple of weeks?

Is that one of the little chaps you have just bought off Sabine?

[incantrix]

Hi Sarah that would be great!