Pond snails?

Well I have 2 dwarf puffers in a 5 gallon tank. I also have a 10 gallon community tank which seems to be getting some pond snails (I added some wisteria and hornwort about a week or two ago) I guess my question is how often do these guys breed, and do they do any damage to an aquarium. If they don't I will keep them so I can feed them periodically to my dwarf puffers. Thanks for any help or advice you can give.

Pond snails?
I assume you have a lot of plants in your 5 gallon Puffer tank (either live or fake). If you don't already, you may want to add some Hornwort to your 5 gallon tank (you can simply cut 1-2 inches off the top of the Hornwort you already have and plant it elsewhere), and add as many Pond Snails as you can to the Puffer tank. Let the snails breed in the 5 gallon so you have a snail breeding factory. If you do this, you should have the Puffers eating the baby snails at a rate similar to the rate of snails born. Adding about 10 snails to the 5 gallon should be ample for your purposes. The Pond Snails ~could~ overtake your 10 gallon tank, but as long as you don't massively overfeed your fish, you shouldn't have issues with overpopulating... Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.





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Reply:first, puffers eat snails. also, pond snails are bad for aquariums because they have miniscule babies that get caught up in the filters. stick with plecostomi.
Reply:Snails can breed real quickly, maybe faster than your puffers can eat them. If they poop too much it adds to the bio-load. And they may have carried over undesirable parasites %26amp; micro organisms to infect your fish. Just watch first %26amp; be ready to start removing if they cause any problems.
Reply:Hi if its the stagnalis snail pointy shell then there going to lay eggs all over the tank roundish orange batches and seem to like real tank plants can be hard to kill them all .If you looking for a snail with no problems in a tank go for the trapdoor snail live young and only 5 or 6 baby's at a time twice a year and no eating your plants just algae hope it helps.