Hey guyes, I'm going to be getting some malaysian trumpet snails for my 55 gallon tank, and I was curious if they would be able to live on their owns permanently.
I'm not worried about the 55 gallon, since they won't be in there alone for very long, but I was thinking of how it would be to put a few of them into this 1 gallon mini aquarium I have.
I figured I could put an inch of my playsand in the bottom of it, and I didn't think a heater or filter would be necessary, but if I do need a filter, i would just go with a small sponge filter if anything.
The tank just has a small light bulb for display, but with only a gallon of water, i think the bulb might possibly sustain a little bit of java moss/fern if I put it in there too, but thats something else I'm curious of.
I have seen all over about how easy it is to keep them going, and even how hard it is to get rid of them, but thats always in an established tank, so I wasn't sure if anyone had experience, or even thought of doing a snail only tank.
I really don't want to use the 1g for even a betta, although maybe a couple shrimp would be okay in there, but even that i don't know about, and snails seemed like they would be fine as far as a gallon being enough, so i was just curious to see if anyone had any input.
I could maybe switch decorations out from time to time between the snail tank and my tank, so they had algae to eat, or maybe feed them with crushed up flake food in very small amounts or something, or if I ever did have shrimp, it would seem like I could just take care of the shrimp, and the snails would just kind of do their own thing.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thanks
(just checked and it's a 7 watt incandescent bulb, I suppose it would be 7 watts to the 1 gallon so in that theory it should work, but I don't know how well that calculation works in extremely small figures like 1 gallon or 7 watts.)
I'm not worried about the 55 gallon, since they won't be in there alone for very long, but I was thinking of how it would be to put a few of them into this 1 gallon mini aquarium I have.
I figured I could put an inch of my playsand in the bottom of it, and I didn't think a heater or filter would be necessary, but if I do need a filter, i would just go with a small sponge filter if anything.
The tank just has a small light bulb for display, but with only a gallon of water, i think the bulb might possibly sustain a little bit of java moss/fern if I put it in there too, but thats something else I'm curious of.
I have seen all over about how easy it is to keep them going, and even how hard it is to get rid of them, but thats always in an established tank, so I wasn't sure if anyone had experience, or even thought of doing a snail only tank.
I really don't want to use the 1g for even a betta, although maybe a couple shrimp would be okay in there, but even that i don't know about, and snails seemed like they would be fine as far as a gallon being enough, so i was just curious to see if anyone had any input.
I could maybe switch decorations out from time to time between the snail tank and my tank, so they had algae to eat, or maybe feed them with crushed up flake food in very small amounts or something, or if I ever did have shrimp, it would seem like I could just take care of the shrimp, and the snails would just kind of do their own thing.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thanks
(just checked and it's a 7 watt incandescent bulb, I suppose it would be 7 watts to the 1 gallon so in that theory it should work, but I don't know how well that calculation works in extremely small figures like 1 gallon or 7 watts.)