Malaysian Trumpet Snail Care and Breeding: The Hard-Working Clean-Up Crew!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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In this video we discuss the care and breeding of Malaysian Trumpet Snails. They can be a great algae eating snail that also takes care of uneaten food. At the same time, if tank maintenance isn't done properly, their populations can grow very quickly.
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I intentionally added them to an aquarium a couple years ago and haven’t regretted it. They’re part of the ecosystem too, helping to break down detritus so the plants can utilize it
Got any updates?
I just got 8 of them free with the 6 guppies I bought. I am excited to have fish again. Your videos are so helpful I learnt so much watching.
Thank you for being here!
That bladder snail at 3:00- *_I AM SPEED_*
YES! He was like - check me out! :-)
Been waiting to get some in the mail, but it's taking too long and it's getting cold. So I'm worried about the little guys. Amazing video. Can't wait to get my clean up crew
If any of them can survive it - these guys can!
I love all my hitchhiker snails, especially the trumpets. I find they're the most helpful to the tank, and I prefer to keep them with plants otherwise the plants don't look very happy. I have three colours of them, light beige ones, darker ones with spots and stripes, and some dark brown ones. They're all beautiful, my largest ones get up to 2 cm.
They're definitely some of the hardier snails, they're the only ones who survived a disaster with leeches I had. I had pond, ramshorn and bladder snails with them, who all died. Only about 30 adult trumpet snails remained from the four tanks, but that's still a lot compared to all the other types getting wiped out.
I once managed to get a tiny baby onto my ruler to measure, only 2 mm in length. But I've still seen tinier babies than that one.
There are also some interesting relative species to this one, thiara somethings? I've seen a few different ones online (mostly from snail breeders) and they look pretty neat. Apparently some of them have a larval stage though I don't think I've seen them specifically.
If you have them as part of a clean up crew, they can be controlled. I have nerites as my main algae control. Then pond snails, ramshorns and MTS in addition to Amano shrimp. Lots of species, more competition, less population explosions!
i have bladder, ramshorn, MTS in a shrimp tank lolll
These got out of control for me so bad. I couldn't even see the gravel anymore lol. Nice video good info. Great editing.
Try just 1 assassin snail. That should help a lot
These have just appeared in my tank, I've not added anything for months and the piff paff puff they are all over my java ferns. I have a 40 gallon tank so not very big but it is heavily planted. I have an over population of ramshorns and now these little guys. They are fun to watch with the babies crawling over them, I will have to reduce numbers at some time but for now I'm letting nature take the lead.
I’ve used an old unheated freshwater tank’s sand to setup a new tropical salt tank and in a day, trumpets were crawling out of the sand onto the decor at night! They’ve had no problem in the last few months, they even seem happier.
Most pest snails are severely underrated
THEY ARE CUTE BUT THEY WONT STOP HAVING BABIES HELP
people calling them pests don't understand what pest means
These guys truly are bulletproof! I've had them survive outside in buckets of substrate where it would get anywhere from 12 to 92 degrees! They also are great at agitating the substrate in your tank!
They sure are!
Thanks for doing this video. I used to have these in my first goldfish tank since they burrowed in the gravel and cleaned at night so they didn't get eaten. I miss them horribly and am looking for more. However when I tried to explain what they looked like to our local fish stores, I get a blank look. Now that I know what they are called, I try again. I'll have to get a dozen or more as my snail loving daughter is sure to want some as well. She was so pleased when she got two big ramahorn snails and now has at least eight baby snails in her 10 gallon.
Wow this was the best and most informative video thus far for me. I went away for a weekend. I have an African Ciclid 75 Gallon tank. It’s a little behind on the maintenance due to I wanted to create some algae for a baby Pleco and catfish I put in about 3 weeks earlier. But I turned off the lights for a few hours and when I turned them back on their were at least 30-50 little things on the glass of the tank. I freaked out because I’ve never ever seen this before. I thought wtf are these mosquito eggs?? But I jumped on the internet n CZcams and bang it looks like I have trumpet snail infestation. But by listening to your info. I will try to naturally reduce them. Thank you.
I love mine. My trumpets, and my bladder snails, are part of my clean up crew, and they do a great job! I have then in all my tanks.
Ah I remember my first Malaysian trumpet snail takeover lol
Great video! I love learning about the “different” aquarium inhabitants.
Hi Jason. You told me to let you know how I feel about my 150 gallon bare bottom discus tank after trying it out for awhile. Super easy to vacuum the fish waste because I can see where it is. The downfall would be it is not very attractive. Gravel would hide it well but be ready because it would take much longer to vacuum the substrate if you chose gravel or sand. So there are pros and cons. Also, the more you feed the more waste would accumulate. I went back to feeding them once a day and they are still growing like weeds while producing 1/2 the waste! Sincerely, Marty Borst
Appreciate the update!
Nice PR for Malaysian Trumpet Snails 🐌
I just added 14 to my 20L with sand. Had a cyano outbreak.. got it under control and added these guys to keep the sand stirred up
Good to hear!
I found one on a plants. My daughter was rinsing plants and found one hanging out in a bowl lol. I threw it in my tank. I pulled like 7 pest snails out and saved them in a Betts cup. They'll be snacks for my clown loaches.
I've also received 2 TINY TINY ramshorn snails in plants too. And they're beautiful. Within 3 weeks they've quadrupled in size. I was thankful I didn't have to buy them 🤣🙌🏻
One reason I got mylasian trumpet snails is if a friend starts a tank or if I get a snail eater in the future like a pea puffer I can have a food source, rn they are in a pearl danio tank
Add water. There simplified it for you. I swear i have these in sand out of water for over a year in a container (sand stayed wet for a long time) and then added sand back into a new aquarium and some survived.
I believe it! I had them in wet sand for over a week and they survived just fine.
Their populations which get so big and the fact that their shell is rock hard making them indestructible-- used to drive me crazy. I poured boiling water on my gravel and they survived. I finally got rid of all 7056 of them when I purchased clown loaches.
Clown loaches will do that!
Thank you! Never knew thats their name! They live in my guppie tank without gravel very well, but many plants and wood to hide.
7:20 insane photo of manufactured nature at its peak
I have never bought snail but I have three types. Trumpet, Ramshorn, and pond. They are all thriving. I always collect them from the uneaten shrimp food. Then they are put in my yoyo loach tank.
That'll work :-)
Hope to be getting some soon!
We have a few really pretty trumpet snails with sharp colors and well defined stripes.
So true! When turning on the light billions! Then in moments zero. Freaky but cool!
I know - it's crazy!
Awesome for my sand tank!
I bought mine from flip aquatics as well- I bought lots of stuff from there ❤ I need more though lol time to win the lotto (I wish!)
I got a few to feed my pea puffer..and my assassin snails..not sure the pea puffer likes them because the one I put in there is still there but luckily I like them in the tank they are in..just saw a few young but I have greedy mystery snails in there so food goes very quick..
I have these really cool green moss patterned ones aside from the toenail looking ones. I'm going to cross breed them to see what I get.
my nemisis, thank you for trying to make them sound good to me lol
Pea puffer.....
I got one accidently. But it was eaten by one of my glowfish tetras or mqybe, one of my angel fishes.
Great video! I've been considering adding these into my tank as they have not found a way to be introduced inadvertently... yet.
I just started a fifteen gallon mixed with malaysians, bladder, and rams horn snails to feed my puffers 😇
Nice!
I just got some trumpet snails they arrived in a crushed box they were been sitting in the hot mailbox for at least several hours in hot summer weather and we’re being kept in a damp paper towel inside a Ziploc bag every single one of them was 100% OK
I have these snails for like decades here in Malaysia and I doesn't even know these are called Malaysian Trumpet Snails 😂😂
Too funny! :-)
What did you call them? Simply "snail"?
@@SaltirenWhere I live, the snails that you call apple, we call them just caracol or tegololo in other countries xd
Petsmart gave me a bunch of these to feed to my amazon puffer who checked them out for a while but has nointerest in eating them add in the big ramshorn snails he left alone and i have a pretty weird stocking list in that tank.
There are some other snails like big rabbit/elephant snails which breed slower but get bigger.
Try adding an assassin snail to gradually kill the snails if they aren't a positive thin for you
That video was helpful thanks ! I’m fairly new to the hobby and have noticed I have quite a few assassin snail eggs . I have 4 albino barbs and a rainbow shark in my community and wondered if you could advise me if my snails will be eaten. Im wondering if I need to take the eggs out . My other fish are tetras and I’m not too concerned about these . Many thanks , Chris
I had substrate out for couple of months dried.... they came back after adding to tank...
Great video!
Good morning Jason and Joanna. I have not decided whether or not I want to have snails in my tank. Do all live plants produce snails? If not, which ones? I ask because I will be adding some real plants in addition with my artificial ones in the future but don’t want snails in my tank. I still enjoyed this video! Sincerely, Marty Borst 😀🐠
Marty from my experience live plants cannot produce snails; however they seem to “hitch a ride”. What I mean to say is that unless you use tissue culture live plants, inevitably tiny snails or snail eggs may be present on live plants. There a videos on how to treat live plants to help minimize this from happening. A hydrogen peroxide dip bath is one popular way. Hope this helps.
@@jacklaporte472 It’s spelled Marty but Thankyou for the tip.😁👍
@@martyborst5645 Ahahaha I’m so sorry I didn’t have my glasses on 😂 I’m laughing so hard at myself now 😂
I fixed it LOL.
@@jacklaporte472 , too funny. I am the same way without my reading glasses. Lol!!😁
awesome vid
I found some snails at the pet store i go to, labeled "feeder" snails
not really sure what freshwater fish eats these though
but for 3 bucks i got like a dozen, got them home added them to the tank
and i would not believe how much algae these little dudes eat.
Tank was full of shrimp, and I thought the algae was "tamed"
but now i see the power of snails.
i had no idea they were such a food source
That’s cool!
What kind of fish are those??? I adore them
i have them in all my shell dweller tanks. you are probably feeding just enough for the fish and no more. I over feed to ensure fry get enough food but i dont mind the MTS in my shell dweller tanks. that is because they help turn the sand
That answers the question I had. Just wanted to know they wouldn't predate on my multi eggs. I didn't really figure they would, but I'm glad you made this comment. Thanks.
How to breed MTS: "Just add water!"
So true!
That’s a good one! LOL
My pond snails are off the rails!!! Im waiting on their population to even out.....but the tank is CLEAN lol
I love them I've got them in my community tank.
I just got 4 of them for free ! The pet store said they reproduce so fast so just take them lol
Me too!!
I have quite a few in my other tanks, but for my main tank, I'm afraid I can't put them in there. I have 3 assassin snails, and they decimate any and all snails. Just. 3. In a 65 gallon. I got them for the bladder snails, but whew..
I got 20 Mts in my pond but they disappear after going in are they eaten by goldfish and koi
What fish is that at 5:30? It looks like a hump headed apistogramma. 🙏
Trumpet snails are great. I've always wondered though if they have any adverse effects on fish spawning because of how they swarm the tank at night. Has anyone noticed if that discourages egg laying fish from spawning on rocks etc?
I think they could in some cases
@@PrimeTimeAquatics have you guys been able to breed egg laying cichlids in tanks with alot trumpet snails? Also could they potentially eat the eggs from fish that are egg scatters?
No trouble breeding them just add to water 💦 or don't they probably still will breed 😀
I have a tank with betas in. Ive had it for a year. I just noticed two baby trumpet snails and in wondering wjere tbey come from as ive not added anything. Only a female beta 1 month ago.
There may have been tiny snail babies in the tank or cup at the pet store?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics only way is if they where glued to the side of a female beta because thats all thats gone in that tank in the last 12 mount lol
Mine are always out in the light, strange
I've used MTS in the past to keep a cycle going after our betta passed.
I have them in most tanks now (hitched a ride on a siphon) and they are great for the sand, as you said.
Most of my tanks have sand and are partially planted. It's a challenge keeping the exposed sand clean, which lets them breed like crazy.
Excess ones are either given away or are trapped and go into the assassin snail tank.
I use them to keep QT tanks cycled as well!
Snails for life! ❤️ MTS are like duckweed...once you have them it’s difficult to get rid of! 😁 Great video as always
That is true!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I stripped down a tank infested with these, sterilised the sand and hardscape, dosed snail away and the MTSs still came back. Non of the predators such as loaches or assassin snails will touch them. And sooner or later, they will spread to every tank in your fishroom.
I've been trying to grow out the duckweed in my guppy tank but no matter how much I add, it keeps dying out :(. Everyone says duckweed is impossible to get rid of but I cannot for the life of me get them to thrive. I do not have algae either but I do have stem plants, anubias, java moss, and javaferns that grow just fine so idk why duckweed won't.
@@agianthog Sorry I can’t help you. I’ve never had or wanted duckweed.
@@agianthog What is the appearance of the duckweed before it dies out or is in the process?
Good job, now I want trumpet sails LOL but substrate, whats good for em?
I definitely prefer sand.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics me too! Im starting to get in to he Eco complete but the pool filter sand is Tops!
My tanks are stuffed with these Fish don’t seem to mind them so they ok with me.
When I opened the top of my tank today to feed my fish. I noticed that I had one of these trumpet snails. I have absolutely no idea where it came from. I’ve had this 20 gallon now for about four months and before that I had a 10 gallon. All I have are four Rasboras and two Cory catfish. Hi transferred them all from a 10 gallon tank about four months ago. I have never purchased trumpet snails 🤔 I think I only have one. I do not want a population of them in my tank. I assume that maybe when I bought my fish this fella was in one of the bags and very tiny and I did not see it 🤷🏻♀️
What happens to their shells when they die? If they are buried in the sand substrate, do they just break down over time and enrich the substrate? I am starting a dirted tank and would love to add these guys.
Yep! I don't bother removing them.
I have a lot of trumpet snails in my tank but they are dark grey. If i had as many as you do in my tank, i'd have a meltdown. LOL
I pick them out at times, and put the m into my bird bath. sometimes i smash them and feed them to the rainbow fish, who seem happy about that. I used to have bladder snails in that tank, but since the trumpet snails appeared, the bladder snails have been completely irradiated. I think that's weird!
Have a great day! Thank you for this video.
Does anyone else have a problem with baby Trumpets floating on the water surface? Because they keep getting stuck in the water vortex in my tank.
I have one of these that has been lucky enough to live for what feels like a few years. Very distinct shell damage. I always had one big mamma snail (the old one) and a lot of very small ones. I'm not sure but I think their population might be bottlenecked by the available calcium. I don't pay much attention to them. I now have the big one but only a few very small ones. I've never seen any medium-sized MTSs. None of the small ones ever seem to grow up. I have no idea how the one big one has lived so long.
You may want to add some egg shell, fish need calcium too.
Jason, riddle me this, Brother.
I have a 29g tank. Originally, I set it up for a baby arowana that got beat up in the 40g jaguar grow-out tank I just had started up. Everything in the tank was bought brand new. The decor, gravel, filters and heater. There are no live plants. Once the aro grew too big and was moved out, I decided to leave it up and running, to use as a quarantine tank should I decide to buy any new fish. So. There it was. Running but empty. I don't know for how long, but if I had to guess, it had to be over a year.
Then.
Out of nowhere.
I've got snails!
Not trumpet snails, but pest/pond snails. How can that happen? How can they just appear like that?
(For the record, I haven't tried to get rid of them. I figure they have to be adding some kind of waste/bio-load to keep the tank cycled. Maybe not enough for a large fish or a big group of small fish, but adding new fish to an environment with a small BB colony is better than starting them out in an environment that has nothing whatsoever)
The eggs are kinda stringy and sticky. Could have come in the water with a fish!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics They could have come in on thw fish and then stayed inert for over a year until the conditions were right? That's what I was leaning towards too but I didn't think the eggs would go that long without hatching.
@Prime Time Aquatics They could have come in with the fish water and then stayed inert for over a year until the conditions were right? That's what I was leaning towards too, but I didn't think the eggs would go that long without hatching.
I think I got some of these in on my red root floaters, along with what I think are ramshorn snails, but neither one ever seems to grow at all. I'm already overrun with bladder snails so I don't really mind them, just wish they would grow a little larger. There's a ton of them, they're just really tiny
If they have food - they will grow eventually :-)
I drop some algae wafers in every two or 3 days and see tons of new born snails but that's it 😭 guess I just need to give them some more time and maybe an extra wafer
@@savannamm Don't forget to add calcium, if your not already.
@@joshwilson5375 I have pretty hard water so so far I haven't ever needed to add any, and they never eat it when I do put it in there
I don't mind them. I'm trying to get my red ramshorn to take off but they don't seem to do good for some reason. I might try calcium..
That may help
It could be there isn't enough food or the water parameters aren't stable (check Ammonia, nitrite & nitrate).
Any of these go bad then I lose my snails
Will trumpet snails climb out of the tank if I don't have a lid?
Mine usually don’t
Yes water up to rim
I found 3 mts in a bag with the fish I bought. I am really debating if I should add them to my tank or not. Hmm…..
You could wind up with a lot :-)
I ❤️ your Species Profiles videos!!
Thank you!
do you think they can grow their group size even with a 5 1/2 inch dragon puffer hunting them(see my puff blowing the sand so I want some prey for it to look for to keep active )? its a 20l with sand bottom and a lot of cover. or should they be put in a different tank and slowly move them as needed. thankyou for your time and nice vids :D
I might start them out in a different in tank. They do grow fairly rapidly.
Nice view 🇲🇾🇲🇾😎
My MTS don't go below the substrate, they just stay at the top of the aquarium. Could it be my water issue? I placed them with my Cherry Shrimps
It could be - sometimes it can indicate a water oxygenation problem.
Curious if these are similar to rabbit snails at all. My aquatic supervisor at Petco gave me a sad looking plant, and a couple tiny baby rabbit snails for free. I have never had them before.
They do look similar, but rabbit snails get much larger, usually are a little darker and often have a lighter body color.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics awesome thank you! I went to get a 29gal tank and walked out with the tank, hood, a couple plants n the baby snails!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Rabbit snails breed very slowly, leaving a single offspring buried in the sand. MTS breed like, well, rabbits.
How do you think they would fair in a bare bottom tank?
I keep chopstick snails, more or less the same as MTS, in barebottom and they do fine and mostly stay in shaded areas.
Your opinion what's a good 🐌 for peacock cichlids?
They usually eat them all :-)
Maybe you can help me. I have a relatively new tank (few weeks at this point), 35 gallon, lots of brown algae, I put two Malaysian trumpets in there. They're working hard. From what I've read there are a lot more females because they clone themselves, so I'm just assuming I have females.
With that in mind, how soon could I start seeing babies? I got two because I'm very interested in seeing them grow from such a small start. (I have two red cherry shrimp in the same tank for the same reason and I'm wondering the same thing for them, tangentially). There is plenty for them to eat, so I'm expecting them to get out of control and planning on getting an assassin snail when I need to clean them up a little, depending on how I feel at that point.
For the snails it may take a month or so, but they usually start to have lots of babies! Shrimp can take longer depending on size.
how many nerite or mystery snails would you recommend in a 200gallon heavily stocked and planted tank? same with bushy places? THX
You could easily do 20-25!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics wow ok thanks!!!
I bought an established tank a 40 gallon breeder. And after 5 days I noticed an explosion of snail population at night. Hundred thousand roughly all 1mm and hadn't noticed any snails other than 3 big assassin snails. They are cone shaped and not really getting bigger are they MTS or NZMS? I have a big 6 1/2 inch yoyo loach and 5 mature chain loaches that seem to be eating them.
Also this is a planted tank with aged aqua soil about 30 cardinal tetras 3 butterfly loach.
My guess is they are MTS. The loaches will take care of them in time. :-)
can keep 5.5 pH?
My guess is the shells would dissolve over time?
I have snails in a lot of my tanks my questions is when they die are their empty shells harmful to leave in the tank
the leftover snail shells are not harmful whatsoever in your tank. A lot of people add crush coral to buffer their water and snail shells do the same thing. Its more or less just calcium.
@@agianthog thank you for your input and that’s what I was hoping shells did.best regards
Why espacially non planted tanks (3:51)?
Because you don't have to worry about robbing plants of nutrients.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Aha, did you mean it like that. Now I get it 😁.
I have a million of these suckers! Them all!
I have turtles an large fish that get all my snails
I have a question. I had four baby fish who I think were mollies (then two died a while ago- now i have 2) and yesterday i found a dead one lying at the bottom. The other baby looked at it and i thought it would've been sad. Then today i found it dead in the exact same place as the previous fish. Any ideas on what could've happened?
Gravity and death
I always start with water parameters. Also, baby fish can be a little touch and go until they get older.
Hi! Would it be a problem if I have them in gravel? I don’t have sand and if I change it I’m afraid to get an ammonia spike :(
No, it's fine either way.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you for replying! I really like your info :)
Do Malaysian trumpet snails eat algae?
Yes, but probably not as well as other types of snails.
What eats them
idk what species i got but they are growing 3x the size of these, and they destroy my plants haha, i buy a new plant every 3 weeks or so because they eat the leaves
Not cool!
Will they breed by eating fish or other snail’s poop?? Please reply..🥺
They don’t eat poop. They might eat dead fish though.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks
betta be fine with trumpet snails?
Yep! We have them together with no issues.
@@PrimeTimeAquaticsI don't try Betta.glolight tetras
Zebra loaches are great smaller snail eaters. As for breeding MTS, I find if you start with 100 snails in a 40g tank and add 20g of bleach, 20g of HCL, freeze to absolute zero, and then drop a few nukes on them, you’ll end up with 200.
That is too funny! But true.....
Hi Jason can I breed snails to eat?
Probably, but I'm not familiar with snails people eat.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics lol
How big does this snail get?
Around an inch or so
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you, how vulnerable are they in a musk turtle hatchling house? As many your bets own them in an a turtle house and they do amazingly
*as many people
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That whole over feeding is a load of bull!
I had 2 Mts snails in a bucket I sealed the top and put a towel over it. I come back in 1 month and I have a million. I never once open the bucket until the month is up so explain to me how over feeding causes them to over populate
It helps reduce numbers if you feed less.
My guess is they just reproduced but if you did the same with lots of food then the bucket would be far more full than you could see