Re: NANFA-L-- Detritivorous snail for Native Fish tank


Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Detritivorous snail for Native Fish tank
Moontanman at aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 16:15:42 CDT


In a message dated 10/4/04 5:10:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Snailcollector at cs.com writes:

> Their common name is mud snail. Also try New England nassa. Do you mean
> that MTS reproduce slowly? In my tank they are like rabbits!
>
>

No, I was talking about the wild snails I collect here. MTS snails do indeed
breed like rabbits. I lost my entire population last winter to the cold, I
miss them, they are great snails. right now I have a lot of Colombian Rams Horn
snails. They eat plants too much to be good snails in a plant tank.

Moon

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: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 11:27:37 CST