How do you take care of a pet freshwater clam?

Answer 1

Provide the snails with a clean, fresh, damp environment.

Wash all their food thoroughly before you give it to them.

Remove all old food and detritus everyday. (every other day if the food doesn't spoil quickly).

Supply clean calcium at all times.

Wipe down the inside of the tank whenever it starts to get dirty.

Change the substrate when it starts to look dirty (roughly once a week).

Scrub the tank thoroughly with a cleaning agent and boiling water and then RINSE throughly about once a month.

Bathe the snails regularly (roughly once a month).

Regularly check for eggs and destroy them (every other day in warm weather).

Answer 2

To look after a pond snail you keep them in water like a fish tank that's where i keep mine don't let them anywhere near blood worms as they eat them blood worms Cary on your clothe so don't look after blood worms xxx hope u enjoy urself bbz xxxx

Answer 3

A water snail is a underwater feeder meaning it lives off of Algea like 'Plecostomus'. A water snail is best kept with another fish to give it constant algeabut if you keep it alone, you should purchase 'sinking Algea waffers' at any common petstore. Also as many people do not know, Water snails and other bottom feeders need plenty of fibre to digest the algea, thus it is needed o have a piece of wood in th tank to provide a constant source of fibre.

Answer 4

First you pick it up by its shell. then you put it in a bug house or something. After that you feed it either : damp paper cardboard, vegebales (not carrots). Finally you clean out the container its in and them all over again.

Answer 5

Okay.

So you need to put dirt at the bottom if you want to breed.

But you also need to put green leaves, grass, lettuce, apple bits, and half a carrot.

Keep the food fresh.

If it goes rotten throw it out and get fresh stuff.

If a snail tends to eat all it's food fast just put more food in the enclosure.

The enclosure needs to be 1 foot tall and 1 foot wide.

that is how you care for a snail.

This answer is from a real snail owner.

I own 3 snails and I am also breeding them at the moment.

Answer 6

just make sure you have some kind of food in the aquarium or algae that's stuck to the glass. as an added bonus make sure their is some fish that will leave some ....... end product because snails eat it! plus snalis produce asexually so you could have one and a week later their will be 5 more little snails. their just clones of the parent snail. also once the snail population gets to large you may put a dwarf puffer fish in to eat some of the snails because you will have alot.

Answer 7

Snail eggs, for the most part, are self sustaining; they require no special care, save for maintaining a homeostatic environment for them to grow and eventually hatch.

Answer 8

Baby snails are almost transparent as are snail eggs. They can be brought in on plants or even in the water that you have brought fish home in.

Answer 9

Make sure it's got sand and keep food floating in the water it will filter the water