The Mr Cleaner -[ Apple Snail]

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum. This family is in the superfamily Ampullarioidea and is the type family of that superfamily.

The Ampullariidae are unusual because they have both a gill and a lung, the mantle cavity being divided in order to separate the two types of respiratory structures. This adaptation allows these snails to be amphibious.


Feeding habits

In captivity, as well as eating vegetables and fish food pellets, apple snails will also eat other foods if they are available. They will sometimes eat brine shrimps and other frozen foods, or dead fish and insects. Generally, they will also eat any of the microscopic vegetation that grow on the tank rocks or walls. Snails will climb out of the water to reach food that is above the waterline. Because of their ability to do this they have become a nuisance in Asia, where they feed on crops.

Times of activity

In captivity, apple snails are most active at night. During the day they usually retreat to somewhere shaded. When it is night time, the apple snail becomes active and engages in behaviors relating to feeding, as well as mating and laying eggs.

In an aquarium that is well-lit, the exterior of the shell of apple snails may grow filamentous green algae. This is one possible source of food for juvenile snails.

Temperature

The optimal aquarium water temperature for apple snails is between 18 to 28 °C (64 to 82 °F). Apple snails are more active and lively in the higher part of this temperature range. In these higher temperatures, the snails tend to eat, crawl and grow faster. At the lower end of the temperature range, 18 °C/64 °F, the snails may become inactive.


Here colour of apple snail that i used to have:


[yellow-orange apple snail (i got it free from ikano petstore just ask them )]


[Black-brown apple snail]


[love this colour but hard to get it here]

[Why Do You need an apple snail in ur Betta tank]

-clean all the waste food at the tank floor
-will make the water condition in the fry tank less polluted from oxidixation of food waste
-fast cleaner espcially when in come to large group (easy to mutiply)
-sometimes act as a decoration in ur tank
-will eat dead fries and make the water less polluted