r/AquaticSnails • u/NiwaLeaf • Oct 06 '24

Please help, I’m a complete newb! Help

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Hi everyone, I’m completely new to keeping an aquarium. I have one mystery snail named Pokey lol my mom found her old shallow murky tank by the side of the road with the garbage and she was inside. (I think she) I told my mom to bring her to me lol so now I have gone and got her a 5 gallon starter kit tank, I have crab cuisine and bug bites. I’ve been reading and watching videos but still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing. What you see in the video is the new tank setup, there’s a couple live plants in there, I got some sand and did sand on one side and her old gravel from her old tank on the other. I didn’t rinse the rocks and used some of her old water in this tank. I see people do a rotating diet but I don’t know how often to feed each thing and when? Anything else I should know to help (her?) thrive?

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u/garakushii Oct 06 '24

hey so you’ve gotten a lot of advice already but you’re doing great! snail looks super happy, it’s pretty hard to mess up snail care but i would say if you’re going the extra mile, get some mineral supplements- they need minerals from the water to grow their shell, so if they don’t have enough, it can grow in all thin and see-through. this is the only thing I messed up with my teeny snails in my shrimp tank 💀

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u/NiwaLeaf Oct 07 '24

Awesome, advice I did not get yet :) thank you!

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u/DianeMarieArt Oct 16 '24

Great advice, that is. I put crushed eggshells in mine. Every time I change the water, in goes a couple fat pinches of eggshells. Right under the HOB waterfall ( hang on the back filter) so that the clumps the sinking eggshells make go down instead of floating on the surface, where it'll interfere with my cleaning of the tank glass, I hate scratches.

I reserve eggshells from breakfast or recipes, rinse the egg off the shells, dry them in the sun for a bit, then pulse them in my bullet blender a few seconds. Makes a very fine eggshell power. Great for rapidly disintegrating into the water column. But protein and calcium gotta come from food they eat too, but eggshells or what other people suggest are very helpful too

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u/NiwaLeaf Oct 16 '24

Wow that’s interesting! Thanks very much for sharing. :)

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u/DianeMarieArt Oct 27 '24

No problem! You are very welcome!