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I’ve raised Mystery snails for sale! Thinking about doing it again since the prices are way higher and way fewer suppliers.
What are mystery snails? What are they for?
You can do an image search but you’ll mostly see the striped brown ones. I had ivory and blue types that are very pretty. Only profited about $5 per small shipment, just wasn’t worth it. But now it looks like I could make $20 for half as many snails.
Other than looking nice, they cruise around he tank eating detritus and algae. I find that a few snails really helps an aquarium.
I had one that was mostly fine with my plants but then decided to eat the new frilly one I’d planted which got her the name “Bad Bad”. She ended up laying a few clutches of eggs but they weren’t viable. It was really cool to watch her laying them
But I love snails in the aquarium. They’re one of the first things I throw in there to get it started, all of the “pest snails.” Malaysian trumpet snails are amazing because they burrow so they mix up the substrate and they also exhibit parthenogenesis and don’t need to mate to procreate. They are also live-bearers so the little bitty baby snails just crawl out of the momma fully formed, but tiny!
Nice! I tried to give mine away and no one wanted them. Donated >100 to a pet shop lol. I think there’s a glut in my area
Huh, I hadn’t known that people eat snail eggs. Wonder how they taste.
