How to grow ampularia at home?

These cute colorful snails are very popular all over the world. Ampularia in the aquarium have become familiar to Russian lovers of the "water kingdom". This mollusk came to our region from South America (Amazon basin). In addition, this species is common in many tropical countries.

Ampularia, the maintenance and care of which is extremely simple, appeared in Europe quite recently. This happened at the beginning of the 20th century. Nevertheless, they quickly gained popularity among aquarists. This is due to the large size, bright, beautiful colors and ease of keeping such snails.

Spreading

The aquarium snail ampullia, a photo of which can be seen today in all publications for lovers of aquatic inhabitants, is quite widespread in nature. In some areas, people even have to struggle with the growth of its population, since an excessive amount of such molluscs damages the wetland ecosystem. These snails displace other types of gastropods from their habitat. And since ampullae are omnivorous, they pose a danger to crops, in particular to rice. For example, in the countries of the European Union there is a ban on their import and distribution.

Color

This type of molluscs are distinguished by a huge variety of shell colors. Many representatives are yellow, but other, a wide variety of colors are also common. Among them:

• blue (blue);
• pink;
• pearl;
• pink;
• white;
• tomato;
• black;
• brown individuals.

We will present you the most common ones.

Yellow ampullia

This is perhaps the most common type of this mollusk today. Ampularia, the breeding of which is often practiced by aquarists, has more than a hundred species. Keeping snails of different colors in the same tank can create a beautiful variegated picture.But it must be remembered that in order for yellow snails to reproduce normally, there should be no more than one individual per 10 liters of water.

Ampularia yellow takes root well in a regular aquarium with fish. It is compatible with various types of fish, however, it must be borne in mind that some of them can pinch the clams by the whiskers. This primarily applies to fish that feed on these cute creatures. Therefore, it will be safer to keep these snails with non-aggressive fish.

Ampularia blue

Among the brightest representatives of this type of molluscs, blue ampullia is especially prominent. The blue-gray shell and darker torso do not look boring at all against the background of yellow, marble, purple or pink snails. Such an individual has its own exotic charm and grace of an unusual creature, as if it came to us from another planet.

In nature, ampullae feed mainly on plant foods, and in aquariums blue snails prefer protein ones - bloodworms, scraped meat, tubifex, and dry food for aquarium fish. From plant components, lettuce leaves are eagerly consumed. Periodically, you can add semolina scalded with boiling water to the diet. If you feed the blue ampullaria only with plant food, it will become sterile.

Sizes of ampullaries

These snails often grow very impressive - up to 9 cm. There are even real giants, the size of which is much larger than the indicated size.

Their lifespan depends on quality care (mainly for nutrition) and the temperature of the water in the aquarium. At relatively low values ​​(18-20 ° C), the snail can live for 2-3 years, but it will become inactive due to its slow metabolism. At 25-28 ° C, the snail will live with you for only a year or a year and a half, but at it it will grow rapidly, multiply intensively, and will be highly active.

Ampularia snails: maintenance and care

Despite the fact that this type of mollusks gets along well with fish, it is better to keep them in a separate aquarium. The fact is that not only some species of fish, but also other animals, for example, red-eared turtles, eat even adult snails, not to mention eggs and offspring.

Ampularia snails, the maintenance and care of which are quite simple, can live in a not very large aquarium (30 liters), but this is provided that you have one such pet. But since they do not contain ampularia singly, 3-4 individuals will need a more spacious container - one hundred liters.

Owners who already have ampullaria need to know: their reproduction should be under their control. Otherwise, a myriad of shellfish will soon appear in the aquarium. In addition, care should be taken to ensure that no dead snails are left in the water.

Cover the aquarium with a lid, because if your pets don't like something in their new home, they will come out and go for a walk. In such a situation, it is necessary to find out what triggered their escape, and eliminate the existing inconveniences.

Periodically, the ampulla comes out to breathe air, therefore, a free space must be left between the lid of the aquarium and the surface of the water. It is very interesting to watch the tricks of colorful beauties. They look very funny, especially when there are several individuals in the aquarium. First, the snail takes in air, floats up, then exhales, and noisily falls to the bottom.

Often, newcomers, seeing such tricks for the first time, are scared, frightened, believing that the unfortunate creatures gave up their ghost and collapsed dead to the bottom. This is not so, the "stag" just got some air and went to rest.

Water requirements

Experienced aquarists know how undemanding ampullia are to water. Maintenance and care, as well as their breeding, are possible in much worse conditions than other aquatic inhabitants require. It is enough for the aquarium owner to follow the simple rules for changing water and filtering it.

Particular attention should be paid to the shell of the snail. So that it is not only not destroyed, but also renewed, calcium is needed. If the water in the aquarium is too soft, then limestone, sea shells, and fine marble are added to it. It is even easier to make up for the lack of calcium by buying a drug at the pet store that increases the hardness of the water.

Feeding

Despite the fact that the ampulla, the photo that you can see in this article, is an unpretentious creature, certain feeding rules must be observed. This is important for the normal development of the mollusk, its active reproduction. In addition, the quality of the feed is directly related to its lifespan. So what to feed the ampularia? These representatives of gastropods eat almost any food with the same appetite. Ampularia are remarkable in that they eat up the leftovers of food for their neighbors.

Despite the fact that in natural conditions snails prefer plant food, it is recommended to diversify their diet in captivity. Ampularia will never refuse food of animal origin:

• bloodworms;
• earthworms;
• daphnia;
• pipe maker.

And yet, the basis of the snail's food should be vegetables and herbs:

• zucchini;
• cabbage and lettuce leaves;
• cucumber;
• pumpkin;
• carrot;

• spinach.

Before feeding, the vegetables should be lightly boiled, and the herbs should be scalded with boiling water. Do not forget to remove the leftover vegetables from the container in a timely manner so that the water does not spoil. The diet of ampularia is not limited to the above products. They will gladly enjoy granulated feed, boiled yolk, white bread, duckweed, bananas. In the meantime, don't let your pets eat everything. It is necessary to observe the vitamin and mineral balance in feeding.

Reproduction

Only an experienced specialist can distinguish a male from a female, even in a sexually mature ampulla. Reproduction of these snails usually occurs when 4-5 individuals live in one aquarium. In such a company, there are usually necessarily different-sex snails.

When the female creates a clutch, her eggs are almost white, with a slight yellow tint. Then the eggs become harder and become off-white in color. Most often, the female lays eggs before sunrise, where the place is well heated by illumination lamps. Because of this, often, when the owner turns on the backlighting lamps in the morning, the masonry can die from the heat.

If you want to preserve the eggs and wait for the offspring, the eggs must be cut off the glass immediately and placed on a piece of foam or seaweed.

Ampularia: breeding

You can breed snails of this species, like aquarium fish. They reach puberty by 15 months. To breed ampullia, you need to prepare an aquarium by creating a 10-15 centimeter air gap in it. To do this, it is necessary to drain part of the water and cover the container with glass. Water temperature - + 26 - 28 degrees.

Ampularia females lay eggs in the form of a cluster on the wall of the aquarium or on the glass to be covered. It matures in 7 - 15 days, and the process of hatching takes 5 days.

It is very important to protect the caviar from drying out, since the masonry dies if there is a lack of moisture. After two weeks, fry emerge from it, which move into the water of the aquarium. Newborn snails should be heavily fed. First, they are given soaked and mashed dry food for fish, gammarus, boiled yolk daphnia, scraped meat (beef). Then they are gradually transferred to adult food, and when the babies grow up to 5 mm, they can be seated in other aquariums.

These are the funny creatures of the ampullary snail. The maintenance and care of them is not a big deal, and with their presence they will diversify your aquarium and will give you considerable pleasure to observe them.

Ampularia (Latin Pomacea bridgesii) is a large, colorful and popular aquarium snail. It is not difficult to maintain it, but there are important details in feeding.Originally from the Amazon, where it lives along its entire length, over time, it spread to Hawaii, Southeast Asia and even Florida.

In nature, ampullae spend most of their life in water, getting out only by chance and during reproduction to lay eggs. And yet, although they spend most of their lives underwater, they need atmospheric oxygen to breathe, for which they rise to the surface.

You can often observe how in an aquarium the ampulla rises to the surface, pulls out the breathing tube and begins to pump oxygen into itself. Its respiratory system is comparable to the lungs of fish, it has gills (on the right side of the body) and lungs on the left side.

Aquarium snails Ampularia have adapted very well to life in the tropics, where dry periods alternate with rainy seasons. This was reflected in their body, they developed a muscular leg with a protective flap attached to it. With this flap, they close their shell to survive the remaining water and mud during the dry season.

They live in all types of reservoirs, in ponds, lakes, rivers, canals. Despite the fact that many snails are hermaphrodites, ampullaries are heterosexual and need a partner to reproduce.

Although the most common color is yellow, they nevertheless come in very different colors. In addition to yellow ampullaria, you can find white, brown and even almost black. Now blue ampullae have become fashionable, but they do not differ much from yellow ones in maintenance and breeding.

When you buy it, it is important to remember that it grows much more than other snails. They are sold quite small, up to 2.5 cm in diameter, but they can grow up to 8-10 cm in size.There are also larger ones, which are very well fed, and they become so large that they can compete in size with other giants -

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The aquarium contains several different types of ampullia, which differ from each other in the shape of the shell. The lifespan of an ampullary in an aquarium is 2 years.

The content of ampularia in the aquarium

If kept alone, then a very small aquarium, about 40 liters, will be enough for them. Since snails eat aquarium ampullaries, they are a lot, there is also a lot of waste after them, it will be correct to allocate at least 10-12 liters of volume per one. Considering that they reproduce quite vigorously, they should not be kept much.

But, since ampullaries themselves are rarely kept in an aquarium, it is better to count on a larger volume of the aquarium. So, for 3-4 snails + fish, you need about 100 liters. Of course, a lot depends on your conditions and details. But as a rule, 10 liters per ampoule will not let you down.

Yellow ampullae are completely peaceful, they never touch fish or invertebrates. There is a misconception that they attack fish. But, this is due to the fact that snails are scavengers and eat up dead fish, but it seems they killed the fish. Not a single snail is capable of catching up, catching and killing healthy and active fish.

But the fish ampularia are very alarming. They can cut off their antennae, such as Sumatran barbs, or even completely destroy them, like a dwarf tetradon, a fahaca, a green tetradon, a clown fight or large cichlids. Some will not be able to eat large snails, but small ones will be brought out under a clean one. And large ones will be gnawed at every opportunity, which will not add to their health either. Invertebrates can also become a problem - shrimps and crayfish, they skillfully pick out snails from shells and eat them.

Organs of vision and respiration

Feeding

How to feed the aquarium ampullia? Quite simply, they eat almost any kind of food. In addition to the fact that they will eat all types of food that you give them, they will also eat whatever they can find in the aquarium. The advantages include the fact that they eat up food after other inhabitants, preventing them from rotting and spoiling the water.

It is easiest to feed the ampullary with catfish tablets and vegetables.They especially love cucumber, zucchini, salad, even pumpkin. Two conditions must be observed - boil vegetables for a couple of minutes and do not keep them in the aquarium for more than a day, as the water becomes very cloudy.

They also eat live food with pleasure, they ate bloodworms and a tubifex. But here it is necessary that they can get to it, that is, a clean bottom, but in a general aquarium, as a rule, the food has time to fall into the ground.
But remember that ampularia easily damage young leaves of plants and delicate species, eating them up to the trunk. To prevent this from happening, you need to abundantly feed them with vegetables and food containing spirulina.

Breeding ampularia

How do ampularia reproduce? Unlike many aquarium snails, they are not hermaphrodites and you need a male and female to breed successfully. The easiest way to get such a pair is to buy 6 snails at once, which practically guarantees individuals of different sexes. When they become sexually mature, they will start divorcing on their own, in order to stimulate them, you do not need to take any action. How to understand what happened? During mating, the male and female merge with each other, with the male always at the top.

After mating is complete, the female gets out of the water and lays a large number of eggs above the surface of the water. The caviar is pale pink in color and should be located above the surface of the water, without sinking into it, otherwise it will simply disappear. The surface of the caviar calcifies under the influence of air and the babies are completely safe.

Small snails hatch after a few weeks, provided that the ambient temperature is 21-27C, and the humidity is sufficient. Newborns are quite large, fully formed and do not require any special care.

Ampularia caviar

Most popular questions:

Ampularia laid eggs. What to do?

If you are not worried about the fact that snails will end up in the general aquarium, then ... nothing. At constant humidity and temperature, the caviar or eggs of the ampullary will hatch on their own, fall into the water and begin a completely independent life. Catching them is not a problem, but if you want, you can put an incubator from a plastic bottle under the masonry. Small snails will fall there and you can transfer them to a shared aquarium.

The moment of appearance of babies from caviar:

Ampularia does not move for a couple of days, what happened?

Most likely she died if she did not move for several days. An easy way to figure this out is to take out a snail and smell it. But, be careful, the smell can be very strong. Dead ampullary snails in the aquarium must be removed, as they decompose very quickly and can spoil the water.

I want to give vegetables, but they pop up. How to be?

Quite simply, pin a piece not a fork or any stainless object.

Do ampularia spoil plants?

Yes, some species can, especially if they are hungry. How to fight? Feed them their fill.

I want to get an ampullary, but I'm afraid that they will get divorced. How do you control them?

This is not a problem at all. Firstly, the caviar is large and above the water, it is very difficult not to notice it. Secondly, the snails themselves are large and it is easy to catch them even with your hands. Well, you will find more ways to get rid of snails at the link.

Do you need to somehow create a place where they can lay eggs?

It is enough that the aquarium is covered. Ideal conditions for caviar are created in the space between the lid and the water. And yes, it is better to cover, as ampularia can crawl away on a journey.

My snail is already very big, how long will it grow?

With good feeding, the species Pomacea maculata can grow up to 15 cm in diameter. But, as a rule, they are 5-8 cm in diameter.

A part of my body was torn off from my ampularia, what should I do?

Nothing, they have a wonderful ability to regenerate. Typically, the lost organ will grow back within 25 days. It may be slightly smaller, but fully functional. They even restore the eyes.

How do ampullae tolerate salt water?

If the concentration is gradually increased, then they withstand a slight salinity. If during the increase the snail stopped crawling out of the shell, then lower it until it's too late.

Do ampularia carry parasites?

Yes, there are several species for which they are carriers. However, ampularia resist quite well, and are much more hardy than parasites.
There is one parasite that is dangerous to humans (the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis). Its main carrier is a rat, and a person can become infected if he consumes raw snails. In rare cases, he cries out for the defeat of the nervous system and even death.
But, you have absolutely nothing to be afraid of. Ampularia can only become infected with them if they live in nature, where infected rodents are neighbors. It is difficult to imagine that the local ampularia bred in the aquarium can contact them. Even so, you still need to eat a raw snail.

Do ampularia go into hibernation?

Yes, during the dry season in nature, some species can. But in an aquarium, they do not need this.

My ampullaries have a shell of the wrong color in places, what's the matter?

This is due to the fact that at some point they stopped growing (change of habitat, lack of food, different water) and as soon as everything worked out, they immediately restored the former quality of the shell. But the trail remained. It's okay, the main thing is that you keep them well in the future.

The shell of my ampularia is collapsing. What is it because of?

To form shells, snails use calcium from the water. If you have very old or very soft water, then it may simply not be enough. And her defense, her carapace is cracking. It is not difficult to fix this, at least to replace part of the water with fresh or add minerals to make the water harder.
But keep in mind that they can repair the holes in the sink, but sometimes the tip of the sink disappears and they cannot restore it. However, this does not particularly bother them to live.

I found an empty ampullary shell. Did someone eat it?

Most likely she died herself. The types of fish that can eat them are already listed above. But, if it dies on its own, then it decomposes very quickly, since it consists entirely of protein.

How long do ampularia live?

Strongly depends on the conditions of detention and temperature. At low temperatures up to 3 years, and at temperatures from 25 ° C only 12-16 months. At higher temperatures, ampullae are more active, grow and multiply faster. But, a side effect is an accelerated metabolism, and, accordingly, early death. The temperature for keeping ampularia can range from 18 - 28 ° C

Will the ampullae survive in the pond?

During the summer, it is quite, since they can live at a temperature of 18-28 ° C. But in the fall, you know….

My ampullae are not active, they often lie motionless. I feed well, conditions are good.

If they did not die (see above for how to check), then everything is fine. By themselves, snails are quite lazy creatures, they have only two desires, either to eat or to reproduce. Accordingly, when these desires are absent, they simply sleep.
Or you have a low water temperature, as we have already written about above.

My ampulla has surfaced and floats on the surface. Is she dead?

Not necessary. As already mentioned above, they are quite lazy, and since they breathe air that they pump under the sink, they may well float to themselves. It is very simple to check what happened to her. Take it out of the water and see if the snail quickly closes the shell, then everything is fine with it. The dead muscles relax and she does not move.

How long does it take for the eggs of the ampullaria to hatch?

Two to four weeks, depending on temperature and humidity.

Do ampullae multiply throughout the year?

Yes, but much less in winter.

Why did ampularia die?

It is difficult to say unequivocally, there can be many reasons. But, as a rule, in common aquariums they die ... from hunger.This is a large snail, in order to live and grow it needs a lot of food, but in the general aquarium it lacks it.

Can ampullia live without water?

Of course not, it's a water snail. If you see her getting out of the water or even crawling out of the aquarium, this means that the female is looking for a place to lay eggs. In this case, you need to close the exits from it, otherwise it will crawl out and die. Caviar needs a place with high temperature and humidity, usually under the aquarium lid or glass.

Does Ampularia eat fish?

As we said, only the dead. She has neither speed nor teeth for hunting fish. But she eats dead fish with pleasure.

Is the ampularia buried in the ground?

No, she's too big, she would need the efforts of a small bulldozer.

Is it possible to keep ampularia and red-eared turtles?

It is possible, ampullaries for red-eared turtles are excellent food. Joke. It is impossible, the reason has already been named.

Ampularia and Helena get along?

Adults, yes. For Helen, an adult ampullia is clearly beyond her powers, but they can eat small ones.

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Hello dear aquarists!

reproduction of ampullia

Today, as promised, I will tell you about breeding ampularia at home. So!

Ampularia are not hermaphrodites - they are dioecious. The ampullary snail lays its eggs (eggs) not in water (like many mollusks), but outside it.

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The process of reproduction of ampularia itself occurs as follows. The male fertilizes the female. After some time, the burdened female crawls out of the water and begins to look for a place for laying. (In my aquarium there are always a couple of ampularia. So, knowing that the female will look for a place to lay her eggs, I simplify her searches: I take an ordinary suction cup, attach a piece of plexiglass, 10 centimeters in size to it, and hang this structure on the glass of the aquarium. The snail constantly nests in the same place).

Ampularia spawns only in the late evening or at night, naturally, without lighting. The snail finds a place for laying and begins the process. The eggs (eggs) of the ampullaria are rather large and sticky, up to 2 mm in diameter. The female lays eggs directly on the glass and immediately shifts them with her pseudopod, thus forming a very dense clutch, which in appearance resembles a bunch of grapes. A day later, the clutch turns to stone, the eggs turn dull, and the clutch itself becomes pinkish. After some time, the clutch darkens even more, and just before the hatching of the offspring, it generally becomes black, like coal.

Now a couple of words about the factors accompanying the development of healthy offspring of ampularia.

First, the healthy development of the offspring depends, oddly enough, on the temperature of the aquarium water. If the water temperature is stable within + 24 * C + 26 * C, then the eggs ripen within 14 days. If the temperature does not rise above + 18 * C + 20 * C, then the maturation of the masonry is delayed for another week.

Secondly, another important factor is humidity! If there is too little moisture in the aquarium, the eggs will simply dry out and the offspring will die.

Thirdly, if there is enough moisture, then the offspring may be threatened by water condensation, which, if it drips onto the clutch, will simply corrode it and the offspring will die again. So take precautions!

Move on. When the time is right, young molluscs come out of their eggs and crawl (or fall) into the water. These babies should be fed with chopped duckweed, riccia, fresh lettuce and scalded cyclops. It is this type of feed that stimulates the accelerated growth of young ampullae.

Remember to change the water in your aquarium regularly.

By the way, you can also breed ampularia not in a general aquarium, but in a separate container - the breeding conditions do not change from this.

The breeding cycle of ampullia is all year round! These snails live for a rather long time - up to three to four years, and their period of puberty begins at the age of 1 year.

That's all. All the best and see you soon!

Aquarium snails ampullia are bright and large representatives of the animal world, popular among breeders. The Amazon is considered the homeland of these underwater inhabitants, and the population is also common in Hawaii, Southeast Asia and Florida.

In the wild, the ampullary snail spends all the time in the water, and it rarely gets out on land. The need for oxygen or laying eggs makes it rise to the surface from the depths of water.Keeping ampularia at home is not a difficult task. They grow and reproduce quickly, rarely get sick, but at the same time need proper feeding.

Appearance and color of ampullia

At first glance, it is easy to confuse ampullary snails with pond snails, which are common on the territory of Russia. The description is largely the same: a body with a massive leg 3-4 cm wide and more than 10 cm high, and mustache tentacles that function as organs of touch. The size of an individual ranges from 5 to 15 cm, depending on the species.

The shell of snails found in the wild is often brown. But individuals intended for living in a common aquarium amaze with a variety of colors. There are the following types of ampullia:

• white;
• blue;
• blue;
• gray pearl;
• pink;
• dark red;
• black.

In the aquarium, yellow snails are common, but other varieties are presented in specialized stores. Breeders are interested in the question of how long ampularia live. On average, an aquarium snail can live 1 to 4 years. It depends on water temperature, nutrition and maintenance.

What are the benefits of snails

For those who want to breed mollusks, it is useful to know that blue or yellow ampullia, as well as individuals of other colors, can not only decorate an artificial reservoir, but also bring significant benefits.

The peculiarity of aquarium snails is that they perform the functions of orderlies of the aquatic environment. Molluscs collect food residues, which helps to avoid rotting and soil contamination, and clean the walls of the tank from plaque.

Many breeders purchase ampularia for practical purposes, as keeping these snails in the aquarium allows for less cleaning of the tank and less cleaning time.

What gastropods eat

In order for the ampullae in the aquarium to grow and develop, the breeder needs to know how to feed the snails. Despite the fact that they are considered omnivorous and unpretentious, often eating up food leftovers for other inhabitants of the reservoir, you will need to follow the rules when drawing up a diet. Representatives of this species eat plant foods, they gladly eat vegetables and greens. The snail is treated to:

• cabbage;
• cucumbers;
• zucchini;
• pumpkin;
• lettuce leaves;
• carrots;
• spinach.

Before feeding the ampulla in the aquarium with vegetables, they need to be slightly boiled, and the greens should be doused with boiling water. If the mollusks are undernourished, it is better to remove the remains from the tank so as not to pollute the aquatic environment.

Plant-based snails need animal products from time to time. Ampularia will not refuse the following types of treats:

• earthworms;
• daphnia;
• bloodworm;
• pipe maker.

However, blue ampullia or a snail of another variety will not be limited to these products, and will gladly eat:

• granulated feed;
• boiled eggs (yolks);
• duckweed;
• bananas;
• White bread.

It is important to remember that the time, how long snails live, directly depends on the quality of their nutrition. Therefore, it is required to correctly formulate a diet and feed adults and small ampullaries with mineral and vitamin supplements. In addition, you should not overfeed them and abuse the amount of boiled eggs, this will negatively affect the health of the gastropods.

Care and maintenance requirements

Experienced breeders, who have been inhabiting ampularia for several years, know that their maintenance does not require much effort. Individuals live and lay eggs in almost any setting.

1. Purchase several individuals at once, and settle in a spacious tank (for 3-4 snails you need an aquarium with a volume of 100 liters).
2. Cover an artificial reservoir, because mollusks are able to leave their homes at any time. At the same time, we must not forget that they need fresh air, and do not slide the lid tightly, leaving a gap.
3. Equip the container with a filter system.
4. Monitor the condition of the gastropod shell, as it collapses from too soft water. To avoid this, limestone, seashells or marble chips are placed in an artificial reservoir. In addition, you will need to give the shellfish calcium.
5. Watch out for additions to the gastropod family. If the ampulla, like any snail, will reproduce often and uncontrollably, this will lead to the family multiplying and the number of mollusks will increase in a short time.
6. Remove dead individuals from the reservoir in time to avoid water poisoning.

Beginners, for whom breeding ampularia is not a completely mastered occupation, are frightened, observing how the inhabitants of an artificial reservoir first rise to the surface, and then fall like a stone. This behavior is not a cause for concern, the mollusk needed another portion of oxygen, and snails are uncomfortable to move differently with a similar body structure.

Reproduction and care of young animals

Before moving on to the question of how snails breed, it should be noted that it is almost impossible to distinguish a female from a male. Therefore, those who wish to breed molluscs need to purchase several individuals. When the ampullaria has laid eggs, it is better to mark this snail in order to know for sure its sex.

This gastropod species reaches puberty by 15 months. In order for the caviar of snail snails to be regularly deposited, mollusks need favorable conditions. To do this, you need to do the following:

1. Remove some of the water from the tank so that a gap of 10 to 15 cm remains between the aquarium lid and the contents.
2. Maintain the temperature in the artificial reservoir at 26-28 degrees.
3. When the eggs of the ampulla are laid, it is important to keep them from drying out. Otherwise, there will be no offspring.

After the "snail eggs" appear on the walls of the aquarium, it will take 7 to 15 days for them to mature. It will take another 5-7 days for the mollusks to emerge, and after 2 weeks they will move freely in the reservoir.

Watch the video about the breeding of ampullia.

Newborn offspring will need to be cared for and properly fed. This requires the following products:

• boiled eggs (yolks);
• chopped and soaked fish food;
• daphnia;
• chopped beef.

From 10 to 12 days, molluscs will need to be given such food, and then gradually transferred to adult food. When the young grows up to 5 mm in size, it is permissible to settle them in other aquariums.

Relations with "neighbors"

Snails are considered peaceful and accommodating, they are loyal to their neighbors. But if gastropods do not show aggression towards other inhabitants of an artificial reservoir, then which types of aquarium inhabitants pose a danger to them, for example:

• red-eared turtles;
• Sumatran barbs;
• green tetradons;
• cichlids;
• shrimp and crayfish.

Even peaceful fish can injure mollusks and eat snail eggs. Under such conditions, the reproduction of ampularia is impossible. For this reason, it is better to settle the gastropods in a separate reservoir, so that later there are no questions about why the mollusks leave the aquarium and what to do to prevent escape.

Ampularia are ideal pets, distinguished by their unpretentiousness, ease of maintenance and omnivorousness. In addition, these bright multi-colored mollusks will become a real decoration of the aquarium and keep the aquatic environment clean.

Watch the video about the ampullary snail.