TIPS & TRICKS for Breeding Bladder Snails
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2021
- How to Raise Bladder Snails in Your Fish Tank. DiY Tips and Tricks from an Experienced Keeper.
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Bladder Snail Information (Physella acuta)
How Do Bladder Snails Reproduce?
Physa Snails reproduce by breeding and laying eggs in clear gelatinous masses. These eggs may appear underwater or just above the surface. Eggs are fixed to and laid on live plants, hardscape, aquarium walls or elsewhere. With proper equipment, tiny bladder snails can be seen developing in the eggs.
Can Bladder Snails Live in Ponds?
Yes! Bladder Snails can thrive in almost any pond type environment. They are air breathing snails and that allows them to survive within oxygen depleted lakes and ponds. They may also be found in slow moving streams and other bodies of calm water.
Can Bladder Snails Live in Cold Water?
Yes! Warm water will encourage them to be more active and to breed more often but they can survive in cold conditions. They are all over the globe at this point and they are thriving in all sorts of climates. My own snails have survived being under ice, in a frozen Bucket Pond, when outdoors in the winter.
Can Bladder Snails Live Outside?
Yes they can thrive outdoors. You are likely find some bladder snails in nearby ponds and streams. When placed in man made ponds they do quite well even without a heating element in the water.
Can Bladder Snails Reproduce Asexually?
Yes! Bladder Snails are capable of self fertilization. They prefer to mate with other snails but they can produce their own offspring singlehandedly. They will also delay self fertilization for as long as possible, to avoid inbreeding. There are ways to trick them into faster asexual reproduction like exposing the snail to a predator.
Can Bladder Snails Live in Brackish Water?
This I do not know. Judging from their sheer hardy nature I would say yes, they probably can survive in brackish waters. My own snails in comparison live in pretty hard water with a lot of dissolved nutrients. I would advise testing with only a few snails at first.
Can Bladder Snails Live in Tap Water?
Yes but it depends on the tap water. City tap water can do fine but you must allow the chemicals to evaporate. Leave the container open for 24 hours.
How Fast do Bladder Snails Reproduce?
This can vary but they are fast breeders. When given the right incentives they will double and triple in their numbers within a very short time. A handful of snails can populate a small tank within a few months.
How to Control Bladder Snails:
Reduce the food. They breed based on how much food they have access to. By reducing your feeding schedule you will see a slow down their apocalyptic breeding ability.
Will Bladder Snails Eat Live Plants?
No they will not eat your live plants. They will eat wilted and dieing plants but live plants are safe. Unless they are starving. Starving Bladder Snails will eat anything organic. Even Detritus Worms and possibly hydra, are on the menu when these Snails are hungry.
What do Bladder Snails Eat?
Algae and Bacteria are their primary foods. They eat by scraping and grazing on hard surfaces. Pulling up and consuming algae and bacteria layers. They will happily take ANY other foods as well, like left over Fish Flakes, Algae Wafers and Fresh veggies. Some hobbyists even feed their snails with meat and fish flesh. I like to feed them clean cucumber slices. Which all of my other pets eat as well.
Why Are Bladder Snails Bad?
Bladder Snails are good! They clean your aquarium free of charge. They do add to the bio load, which is the amount of biological waste that your tank can take, but that is true of any aquarium animal. Live plants can help with this. Snail waste is extremely fertile.
Are Bladder Snails Poisonous?
No they are not poisonous. They can safely be handled but you should of course wash your hands after touching anything in the aquarium. Bladder Snails are also very tiny and pretty fragile. When moving them or touching them, be careful not to crush their shells.
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I love snails, particularly bladder snails. Thanks for posting a positive video about them. I'm so tired of watching videos about how to get rid of them. They're fun and enjoyable to watch on their own.
i really like them , i didnt plan on having them but their great cleaners , and very cute
just got my first clutch of eggs
Bladder Snails are God’s greatest gift. They actually, and I’m being completely serious, SAVED my LIFE. I was thinking of offing myself after I crashed my last micro-worm culture (a huge drag), but then I saw one of my little bladder buddies sucking on the shell of another bladder snail, who was sucking on the shell of another bladder snail, who was sucking on the shell of another bladder snail who was then feasting on a decomposing bladder snail. It was such a lovely sight that I was forced to put away the API ammonia solution I was going to drink. Life is just better with a bladder snail.
Hey Jerome! Buddy never off yourself. For real. There aren't many cool people on this planet, we need you to stick around! And yes these little snails are pretty awesome. Sounds like you saw a massive mating party ... and a little cannibalism. I've been in low places too and it can be rough but once I got into this hobby all those negative thoughts just fell away. When feeling low just check on your little buddies. Throw them some fresh food, check on their eggs, build another tank, and we're always around if you want to talk shop
You doing okay?
"Bladder snails work with what you give them"
Boy is that an understatement.
I accidently acquired ONE bladder snail that hitched a ride on some plants I ordered for my frog tank.
Knowing nothing about snails, I plopped him in a vase with water and a few floating plants and figured I'd just keep him until he passed and then move on.
Four months and 100+ bladder snails later, I'm finally accepting my fate and getting them their own real set up.
I gave them the BARE MINIMUM. I haven't fed them, changed their water, expanded their living space, NOTHING.
Yet they continue to thrive.
Hey Doodledust! Yes that sounds about right! Bladder Snails are incredibly tough and fully capable of feeding themselves in a few ways. They're also able to self fertilize. Which isn't as useful as self cloning (parthenogenesis) but still a strong trait for colonization of new worlds like your vase.
While cruising around their container they are continuously scraping the walls. Searching for edible algae but also feeding on the biofilm. Forcing the bacteria to replenish themselves like a renewable food source.
As for building them a true setup it sounds like you already have 😁 my only suggestion would be to avoid mechanical filters if possible. They tend to explore and get caught up on the impellers
I adore bladder snails, they’re my favorite snail and gastropod in general, I just bought a small tank to start breeding them again and I love this video! I use to have an ecosphere where they thrived and I hope I can give my new snails a great life as well
Always good to hear from another enthusiast. Thank you for watching! I love them too. They're just so durable, adaptable and fun to keep as pets. Probably the best species for Ecospheres
you arent breeding them, they breed themselves :)
A very great breeding tip, strawberries will make them replicate within hrs. Strawberries 🍓 🍓 🍓. Over feed if you want to breed. Eggs in 12 hrs
Yes! They'll eat, lay eggs and eat some more. Like little biomachines built to breed. Turning raw material into more snails. Gotta love em
Hey Can you guys tell me, will these breed in low oxygen environment? I found some in a puddle, and would like to have a breeding tank without having to plug anything in. Thanks for all the great tips❤🔥
@@Rick-the-Swift I have a diffrent set up than OP. I just got some pond water in a 10 gal next to a south window. It's not necessarily low O2 bc the amount of algae and horn root totally produces o2, even in the cold canadian winter. No filter, no gravel. Just Vivo
I'd love to hear more about your endeavours. Love these lil guys.
Thank you so much for showing information about bladder snails that I have not found anywhere else. I have recently become interested in live aquarium plants and my first order of plants has had several bladder snails hatch out of them. I kind of like the way they look and find them more entertaining than you would imagine snails to be.
And since you asked, yes I am interested in your perspective about the plants as well as the animals and way of setting up and maintaining these projects.
Your tank is beautiful and the snails look happy!
Thank you so much for all the information about bladder snails and the list of supplies. We've only had our snails a short time. They arrived on some water lettuce we were trying to winter over. What a great surprise. We just ordered the filter you had listed. We have our tank set up at work and people just love watching the snails. They are very interesting and have some funny antics.
I am so happy to see another bladder snail lover!
i love that you love duckweed as well
Another amazing video!
Thank you for such a wonderful, positive video about my favorite gastropod.
Always good to hear from another enthusiast
So nice to see a positive and informative video for these little guys!
Hey thanks for watching!
Bladder snails are crazy i successfully breed them in 20ml water but that's makes them special. I found tip for breeding any aquarium snail type here is recipe:
Put many adult snails in a tank, feed them properly, they will start to lay a lot of eggs, when first eggs start hatching remove all these big snails to another tank amd almost all baby snails will survive and grow up
Good advice! Following that pattern will also disrupt the life cycles of any parasites the adults may carry. Preventing their ability to transfer into the next generation.
It's a nice way to start new tanks too. Returning the adults to their home tank after the plant the seeds so to speak. Thank you great comment
Thanks for this video! I have an assassin snail and he needs food every 2 weeks. This helps me raise some snails
Hey no problem! Assassins are pretty cool too
Great video. I'm trying to breed a few bladder snails for my leech I found in a pond and is now in my ecosphere type aquarium. I'm not sure of it eats snails but I heard they do, and I've noticed a few dead snail shells around the aquarium.
Hey another leech keeper! Yes some leeches feed on snails and insect larva. There's a clip on the channel featuring one of our snail leeches attacking an insect larva ua-cam.com/video/zFd85OFuKxM/v-deo.html
I have been trying to mass reproduce bladder and some type of trumpet snail, for one month, and I have had lots of luck! (They grow very fast when you feed em fish food and algae: more so than only lettuce(not boiled)
Try giving them dried duckweed powder and filamentous algae.
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Such good cleaners bladder snails and pond snails I have them in a 10 gallon bare bottom with mosquito fish
Hey another mosquito fish keeper! Yes they're like little tractors, constantly cleaning up debris. The gambusia do their part too
I got these in my aquarium. only have shrimps so far so Im hoping they starve to death but if they start eating my live plants, im turning the aquarium into a pea puffer tank. Cool snails as long as they dont multiply too much and eat live plants!
Hey don't worry too much! Bladder snails don't like live plants. Either they are harder to eat or digest, or the snails have evolved to avoid eating all the live vegetation in their ecosystems.
Your main concern should be planaria. Which will feed on snail eggs and baby shrimp. The snails themselves are harmless but planaria are hard to control once established alongside a big bladdersnail population
I accidentally ended up with a bladder snail in my tank and it is my favorite snail! I think it just layed some eggs, so I'm curious to see what bladder snails look like when they first hatch.
Hey Sophia, that we can do! We have some newborn snails from the wild type parents that we recently caught. I'll try to include them in an upcoming video.
@@BucketPonds cool! I'll keep an eye out. I also have seen it for myself now that a bunch of them have hatched! I actually decided to upload some videos of my own on a new tiny little channel @Friendofsnails if you want to check it out :)
@@BucketPonds I am very new to keeping snails and doing my best to gather knowledge and have fun with it!
Tiny baby bladder snail hitched a ride on some new plants a couple months ago. Didn't want more bladder snails, so I separated him into a filtered jar so he could live happily away from my main tank.
Now he's an adult and just keeps laying eggs, and he's literally in a jar hahaha. No tips or tricks needed! I don't need more of them, so I've been having to remove and destroy the eggs every day or two, but if I wanted another colony pet he would be able to start it all on his own hahaha
Yes! When isolated they will self fertilize after a short time. Generally they are incredibly easy to raise and very forgiving as pets. Though they would breed much faster when given access to an unrelated mate.
Destroying eggs!? 🥺 Poor babies! I would gladly take them lol. But I understand why.
you don't need tips and tricks, sometimes you wake up and somehow THEYRE ALL OVER YOUR AQUARIUM like how i just saw this morning!!!!!!
That's true! They're like tiny water rabbits 😂 but there are ways to push that breeding behavior even further. Exposing them to crayfish chemicals for instance, will cause a massive population surge
@@BucketPonds I have an infestation lol. I decided to just use them as feeders for some other animals since they breed so quickly. I ended up with ramshorn and bladder snails likely from the duckweed in my aquarium.
@@BucketPonds Ok, now I have to know what you are talking about. Crayfish chemicals? Do you just mean adding a crayfish or two to the snail tank? Or a crayfish exoskeleton after it molts? This is is just too darn interesting
I add sticks of white chalk. Crayola.
I'm curious about that mud midget plant. Looks like that would be great for fry to hide in.
Hey it's our buddy from www.phillipsfishworks.com!
The Florida Mudmidget is an interesting little plant. I originally thought it was small bits of Spanish moss 😅 but it's a type of duckweed. It's not as vigorous as lemna minor and it acts as less of a barrier to gas exchange at the surface of the aquariums. No roots either. Just a little knot like growth of small spikes.
You may see the spikerush in here as well and that is a decent plant for fish fry. In a way it resembles the mudmidget though it's much larger. Again looking like a knot of green strings or spikes. That one was very hard to identify at first! We had to rely on old botanical drawings. Typically it grows as a terrestrial sedge type of plant.
They took over my aquarium 🤔
Mine die off with in 2-4 months, is there a reason. ? Do they need calcium ?
I've read bladder snails and I've read mystery snails I got a lot of puffer tanks snails get expensive when you haven't read them not to mention there's not an aquarium I have that the glasses isn't clean
Can i use them for my chicken feed?
How to make sure they have nice shells? I've seen really nice ones that go bad eventually, idk if its a calcium problem or what. What's the best pH for them? I can't find anything other than "anything is fine" to keep them alive, but nothing on maintaining shell health.
Also, mine don't like cucumber somehow!!! Even blanched.
Hey Fawneh! That's interesting! You may have a slightly different species. There's actually a ton of different types of bladder snails out there.
I've been dreaming of a way to cultivate some cave Physa for example. Or the rocky mountain Physa. Some are endangered like the snake river Physa. Which I believe we should bring into the aquarium hobby and preserve for the future.
Sorry for the long post! As to shell health I would focus on adding calcium sources and avoid acidic water conditions. You're probably seeing white or especially thin sections on their shells? Try adding a few marble chunks or a bit of an eggshell and see if they take interest
Do you have any tips on removing them? I have a ton in my koi pond but I want to separate them into a tank because I feel terrible just killing them like so many other people are suggesting
Try some bait. They will gather on a food item like a cucumber slice. Then it's easy to scoop out a bunch in one go. They will repopulate the pond but you can do that every so often to cut their numbers down
Sell them to puffer owners!
Hey, would you have any idea where I could get hold of the Brush? Cheers
The brush? The Macroalgae? That's a type of stonewort and it grows all around the world. Our original samples were taken from a very old pond out in the woods
What are those small white things floating in the tank at 4:38? Are those new born snails? I have similar looking critters in my tank but I dont know if those are new born bladder snails or something entirely different. Please help
Yes those are most likely baby bladder snails. They are clear or white when they're so small. Generally the babies are hard to see and their shells are almost transparent.
A macrolense can help with viewing the very small animals in your tanks. Even a cheap one that clips onto a phone can do wonders. You will be able to see their little eyes as they cruise around
@@BucketPonds thankyou so much
I know you probably don't monitor this, but I have a start of a color morph like you mentioned. They are brown with white stripes/white with brown stripes. Have you ever heard of someone paying for bladder snails? Or specific colors?
Hey firedragon! I'm here! Yes actually, we have purchased several batches of bladder snails to contribute to our breeding program. They do sell. Both as pets and some keepers purchase them as food for various other pets.
That may be a color morph! Or hinting at some underlying genetics. Much like neocaridina which have been bred to be very colorful.
I would isolate the striped Physa and encourage them to breed with one another. Repeat this with their offspring that display the stripes.
After a few generations of "inbreeding" which can reinforce the stripes, you may very well have a new type! And I would be your first customer!
@@BucketPonds I would love to talk more with you! Is there a way to pm you here? I don't want to give my personal info on this
Do bladder snails only lay eggs above the water line? Or both above and below?
Hey Blake, bladder snails will lay eggs pretty much anywhere! Ours prefer to lay their eggs above the surface as they are exposed to a number of predators. Our Guppies, Gambusia and Planaria are egg-eaters.
Otherwise they will lay eggs on the glass and on anything below the water line. They can be good about hiding them too. Laying clutches within the Macroalgae for example.
can i just ask do they NEED a filter or can they survive in a well planted aquarium and can you tell us more about how long they live nd how long before the eggs hatch as i need to know far more than i do lol x
Well planted enough to keep the water from growing anaerobic bacteria and avoid ammonia spikes, then that would probably be fine. My little guy is in a jar, and after one filter stopped working and I was waiting for another, he escaped the jar because he just couldn't handle it. They can survive for 12-24 hours without water, so he was fine, but it was definitely a telling testament to how quickly the water quality went bad. They do have their limits.
Trying to cultivate bladder snails and plants for goldfish food. I have lots of snail egg sacs but few make it to juvenile or even adulthood. Might have maybe 20 adults snails in a 20gal. and almost never see small juvenile snails. I am not aware of any predator in my tank. I have very hard water (gh: 22dgh). Calcium levels are ok (120 mg/l) and water parameters are good. pH is a little high at 8.2. Plants seem to struggle. I have duck weed in the tank and it grows slowly as well as jungle val which is in a constant cycle of melting and Recovery. I am not sure if the issue is a mineral deficiency or some kinda tiny predator like planeria. Any suggest as to how to sort out the issue?
Same here. Everyone says these things are a breeze to breed. Mine just keep dying off and eggs just disappear. There is a serial snail killer on the loose :(
Do they need a filter? Or can they go without?
Nope no filter required. I like to use sponge filters in my larger tanks to help out with the water quality but we have tons of jar tanks with no filtration (just some plants and/or macroalgae)
@@BucketPonds alright thank you!
What fish do you keep with them?
We've kept skirted tetras, endler/guppy hybrids, and gambusia mosquito fish with the snails. Though the mosquito fish will hunt them and consume the eggs.
why are the laying above the water line ? any updates ? thanks
They seem to do so when kept with certain fish. My guppies and gambusia will eat the eggs underwater. Idk if the snails can sense this behavior but it's my only explanation so far
Do you sell them? I give those to my pea puffers.
I would love to! But I'd like to do it legally with proper shipping
I breed them to feed my puffer fish
Like little live stock 🐌
long story short get 1 snail and you will had 20 by the end of the week. Bladder snails were hitch hikers in my tank and a week just 1 week i had over 20 snails i hate seeing them but that being said they will help get algae off the plants and some off glass.
If you have hard water you definitely need to change your water
The best way to get a nice population of bladder snails: try your fucking damndest (yes it’s a word) to not get an infestation, and fail.
That's true! They are incredibly durable and adaptable to aquarium conditions. You can try to fish out the adults but they will just breed more often to compensate for the loses. They have a number of built-in strategies to deal with predators and that's one of them. Your best bet is to limit food sources but there will always be a few. Even a single snail can reproduce on its own when given no other choice.
@@BucketPonds interesting! I didn’t know most of that
Tips and tricks for breeding bladder snails:
Have bladder snails. ☺️.
youre not a breeder, being a breeder requires effort :3
Haha! That's true sometimes. But I've also investigated and attempted to replicate pretty heavily methods in which we can influence the bladder snail's behavior.
Turns out they are interesting little critters. With more than meets the eye. Especially when we focus on their responses to predators.
I've even read some reports/papers that seem to say that smashing a bladder snail will cause others in their habitat to breed much more quickly. Might explain some of the aquarium people who smush their snails and get all confused when more and more appear afterwards
Why breeding bladder snails? I wanna get rid of them
They are an essential part of a balanced ecosystem.
some fish eat them
some people keep or breed pufferfish which like to eat snails so having a farm to breed snails is helpful
Why getting rid of bladder snails? I wanna breed them
Put a pleco in with them. Mine has eaten almost all my bladder snails. I was trying to make them for my pea puffs. Pea, Puff, Spot Jr , and Steve the pea puffers aren't happy with Gina the pleco. She ate all of them! Then my pregnant Guppy ate the eggs.
Seriously? Tips and tricks? Just overfeed your fish and these snails will do the rest. Now they are more than my fishes lol.
Weeellll I tried to breed and I think my pleco ate almost all of them. Lol.