How to Keep Ramshorn Snails? A Detailed Guide to Their Care

The apple snail's appearance is red, and it can be kept in a fish tank together with fish, able to clean up leftover fish food in the tank and keep the tank clean. Many people who keep guppies like to keep some apple snails. So how do you keep apple snails?

1. Water temperature: apple snails like warm water and are afraid of cold water. When the water is cold in winter, they do not like to swim around, while in summer they often swim in the water foraging for food. So they also grow fast in summer.

2. Food: apple snails mainly eat the algae in the fish tank and the leftover fish food, so there is no need to prepare food specially for them, which is fairly worry-free.

3. Water quality: because apple snails need to develop their hard shells, they need slightly harder water, which means putting some shells or coral in the water to help adjust the water quality. But the water must not be too hard either, otherwise their shells tend to turn white.

4. Senses: apple snails have a pair of soft tentacles, and there is no lid at the opening of the shell, so do not keep them with aggressive fish, otherwise their tentacles are easily bitten off, though they can grow back. This is quite amazing.

5. Reproduction: apple snails are hermaphrodites, but it still takes two apple snails to complete fertilization. When it is hot in summer, the eggs laid by apple snails hatch into small snails in about half a month. If the water temperature is warm and there is plenty of food, in about one month they can grow into apple snails capable of reproducing.

6. Lifespan: apple snails can live about three years. Their growth rate is related to water temperature and food. Generally they grow fastest in the first year. As they age, their color also becomes less attractive, turning dark, and sometimes the shell turns white.

7. Drug resistance: because apple snails are especially sensitive to irritants and medications, their drug resistance is very poor. If apple snails overrun the tank in large numbers, you can add a little of a special medication that does not harm the fish to the tank, and they will die in large numbers, thereby achieving the goal of controlling the number of apple snails.

Apple snails have a relatively long lifespan and a relatively fast growth rate. They can both clean the fish tank and look fairly attractive. If you keep fish, you can keep some apple snails in moderation.