Anentome Helena (Assassin Snail)

[Mirobilly]

So ... I'm with these five guys more than 6 months and so far no eggs, creates, nothing!
I was with them in the aquas I create an RC, and was suspicious that the brats were eating their eggs ...
Another suspicion would not be creating a low temperature, since you keep my aqua at 23 ° C

So this week moved them to a pot of their own and with higher temperature 27 ° C to see if I can get something!

Any tips?

Sorry for my bad google translate english :x

[Fento]

My snails got he aquarium full of eggs, but I didn't see any little snail yet :/
I think temperature at 23ºC is fine; you'll probabliy get some eggs during summer. Once they start you can't stop them ;)

[seic]

- an. helena has typical egg in cube gel wrap/casing
- after hatching small snails dig into substrate and reveal in AQ after few weeks/months

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[Mirobilly]

More here I found no eggs! Can you tell me what the ideal temperature for breeding them?

[Summit MicroFarm]

Generally I find that both temp and amount of available food. I think there must be ample food for little snalis before the adults are triggered to reproduce.


:alien:

[Mirobilly]

Uhmm... More have others snails on tank!


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[maxgl68]

Hello! I breed my Helena from about 8 months with four males and four females. From 8 Helena, now I have about 300. To breed them you have to respect some things:
- Medium hard water for shell formation (addition of calcium);
- You have to have the male and female (these snails have sex);
- The average temperature is 24 * c (needed for the hatching of eggs);
- Should be given live food (I administer planobarius red).

[Mirobilly]

Hello Maxg !!
how do I differentiate males from females?

Att

[maxgl68]

Hello, Miro. Distinguish between male and female, and 'very difficult. If the tank are the two sexes definitely see copies attached to each other sometimes more 'than twelve hours.
The male is positioned on the right than the female.
If your Helena did not exhibit this behavior, and 'very likely that you or all male or all female.
To make sure the tank, at least, a male and a female must be at least six Helena.
Let me know, hello.

[hibi]

You only need 1 assassin snail and it will reproduce. I have tested it myself. From 1 baby snail to now about 7.

[maxgl68]

You only need 1 assassin snail and it will reproduce. I have tested it myself. From 1 baby snail to now about 7.

Hello, hibi!
The Helena is the need to breed snails of both sexes! Sometimes it happens that if we buy a female, this may 'already be' fertilized!
Obviously, depositing 'eggs in the tank.
Your Helena, probably, was not so 'small.
My will begin to play, again if the conditions are ideal, 1.5 cm. helena the adult it is about 2.5 to 3.00 cm.

[hibi]

Hi maxgl68, Well when i got it, it was still quite small, now yeah its about 3cm. How lonv does it usually take for the snail to lay eggs and hav babies? I got this snail around march and just was the babies about a month ago. Also i have been moving it to different tanks To control the pond snail population. But it only had babies in 1 tank. Which was newly setup (july). So unless this snail can cross with my ramshorns(which it doesnt coz it ate them all), i dont believe it was pregnant for 5 months...

[maxgl68]

Hi maxgl68, Well when i got it, it was still quite small, now yeah its about 3cm. How lonv does it usually take for the snail to lay eggs and hav babies? I got this snail around march and just was the babies about a month ago. Also i have been moving it to different tanks To control the pond snail population. But it only had babies in 1 tank. Which was newly setup (july). So unless this snail can cross with my ramshorns(which it doesnt coz it ate them all), i dont believe it was pregnant for 5 months...

Hello, hibi!
Your Helena and 'a girl! It was spawned and fertilized in your tank! Small Helena are not visible before three or four months, hiding in the bottom of a millimeter and they are great. You saw after time, because 'growth and' very slow, in fact, the Helena to become sexually mature, it takes from eight months to a year. The fact that you have not found in small tanks and other 'normal,' cause he placed the fertilized eggs in a single bath. Hello.

[hibi]

Hi max, my apoligies but, i Have a hard time understanding what youve mentioned above. Anyway i just saw a couple of very tiny babies, not sure where they came from but i dont think my younger snails can reproduce already. Its only the 1 adult. Like i mentioned, the young are only a couple of months old.. Any ideas?

[maxgl68]

Hi max, my apoligies but, i Have a hard time understanding what youve mentioned above. Anyway i just saw a couple of very tiny babies, not sure where they came from but i dont think my younger snails can reproduce already. Its only the 1 adult. Like i mentioned, the young are only a couple of months old.. Any ideas?

Hi, Hibi!
Your baby helena how big (the measure)??
Again, the Helena, snails have sex.
We want to breed the male and female!
Hi, Max

[Mirobilly]

Hello
Could tell me what size to get for them to reproduce?
Maybe mine are still young!
I have 2 with + - 1.5 cm and 3 with 0,5 cm + - ....

[maxgl68]

Hello, Miro! If you are - 1.5 are too young to breed!
Hello, Max

[Mirobilly]

ok! the way is to wait then! How long do you think they will take to become an adult?

Att

[maxgl68]

A few months! Greetings!
Do not miss him live food ever!
Hello!

[Mirobilly]

Yes! have all snails and snails eggs on tank! hehehe

[maxgl68]

Yes! have all snails and snails eggs on tank! hehehe

Ok, Miro!:)

[Mirobilly]

I think my Helenas prefer the eggs of snails than snails

And so far none of the eggs Helenas

[Fento]

Its frustating, I got the aquarium full of eggs and I haven't see a baby yet :(

[maxgl68]

I think my Helenas prefer the eggs of snails than snails

And so far none of the eggs Helenas


The Helena snails eat the eggs!
My bath and 'full of eggs plano, but the baby if you eat them just before hatching.

[maxgl68]

Its frustating, I got the aquarium full of eggs and I haven't see a baby yet :(


The time of hatching depends on temperature!
With an average temperature of 24 degrees sciudono about a month.
When they are born are about one millimeter and are hiding in the bottom where they feed.
When you begin to see they have already 'about two-three months of life.
The Helena grow slowly.

[rod]

I have had them in my tank for a couple of months now. Saw my first baby. I had to get the magnifying glass out to make sure that's what it was. I hope there are more hiding somewhere. Hope you see some soon.

[aqua-fish]

Hello all,

I have been breeding them (better say that I find a lot of a helena) for two years now. I have them with Red cherry and C. Dennerli, so water temperature is 27-28, hard water (gk 8-9) and I add some times small snails as food (tuberculata and physa) also shrimp food that they eat thankfully. I found very important for them a nice sustrate to burry, I use ADA amazonia.

Good luck

[maxgl68]

Hello all,

I have been breeding them (better say that I find a lot of a helena) for two years now. I have them with Red cherry and C. Dennerli, so water temperature is 27-28, hard water (gk 8-9) and I add some times small snails as food (tuberculata and physa) also shrimp food that they eat thankfully. I found very important for them a nice sustrate to burry, I use ADA amazonia.

Good luck

At these temperatures all the time they mate and the eggs hatch in about 25 days. I hate to think how many you have in the tank.
My Helena begin to mate in March and stop in October.

[Chetan]

a couple of months back i had bought 6 of them from the store (which would give good probability of having both sexes). Put em in my rcs tank. temp about 28-29. And now those six have multiplied to over 20. they control the ramshorn and trumpet snail population well. sometimes hunt an odd shrimp. and also eat algae wafers and fish food.

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[maxgl68]

a couple of months back i had bought 6 of them from the store (which would give good probability of having both sexes). Put em in my rcs tank. temp about 28-29. And now those six have multiplied to over 20. they control the ramshorn and trumpet snail population well. sometimes hunt an odd shrimp. and also eat algae wafers and fish food.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4213/img5374e.jpg

Hi,
you eat a bit 'of everything. Sometimes even plant food but prefer high protein food. I've got about 300 of all the measures in a tank 160 along with the cherry and the crs and I must say that I never found except shrimp predation dead or not healthy. The healthy shrimp are too fast for them. I do not ever miss the live food (plano red) in large quantities 'and maybe' why not reflected predation.