How to raise apple snails?

Apple snail appearance is red, can be put in the fish tank and fish culture, can clean the fish tank feed residue, clean fish tank. Many people who raise peacock fish like to keep some apple snails. So how to raise apple snails?

1. Water temperature: Apple snail likes warm water and is afraid of cold water. when the water is cold in winter, it does not like to swim, and in summer it often swims in the water for food. So summer grows fast.

two。 Food: the apple snail mainly eats the algae in the fish tank and the fish eat the leftover feed, so you don't have to prepare food for it.

3. Water quality: because the apple snail wants to develop its hard shell, it needs harder water quality, which requires putting some shells or corals in the water to help regulate the water quality. But the water quality should not be too hard, otherwise, its shell will turn white easily.

4. Senses: the apple snail has a pair of soft tentacles, and there is no lid at the entrance of the shell, so don't raise it with fierce fish, otherwise it is easy to bite off the tentacles, but it can grow again. This is amazing.

5. Reproduction: Apple snails are hermaphroditic, but two apple snails are also needed to complete insemination. When it is hot in summer, the eggs laid by apple snails can hatch in about half a month. If the water is warm and there is plenty of food, it will take about a month to grow into a fertile apple snail.

6. Longevity: Apple snail can live about three years, the growth rate is related to water temperature and food, generally the fastest growth in the first year, old, the color is not good-looking, the color is dark, sometimes white on the shell.

7. Drug resistance: because apple snails are particularly sensitive to stimulants and drugs, and their drug resistance is very poor, if apple snails are rampant and can be sprinkled with special medicine that does not hurt fish in the tank, they will die in large numbers in order to control the number of apple snails.

Apple snail life is longer, the growth rate is also faster, not only can clean the fish tank, but also more beautiful, if fish farmers can properly raise some apple snails.