PLEASE NOTE: These snails are TINY....Maximum size of only 0.5cm!

Limited availability.

A very unusual species of what looks to be an apple/trapdoor snail. 

The snail is bluish in colour with small white/brown flecks to its shell.  The body of the snail is grey with irredescent orange spots.  The snail has a minute trapdoor on its shell and retreats if threatened.

The snail reproduces by laying eggs in a jelly sack of no more than about 8-10 eggs at a time.  It has taken us a long time to build up a viable colony from which we can now sell from.

They will only really thrive in a planted aquarium.

This species will not eat aquarium plants and will help to keep the algae levels down in the aquarium.  They are peaceful inhabitant and easy to keep. 

Maximum size - 0.5 cm in diameter

Feeding - Algae, sinking pellets, cooked leafy green vegetables

Health Additives - SnailStrong Liquid Calcium.

pH 7.0 - 8.5 (less than 7.0 and shells corrode)

Temperature Tolerance - 18-28 Degrees Celcius

Preferable Temperature of 24-26 Degrees Celcius

Stocking rate - One snail per 2.5 gallons

Do NOT keep snails with loaches (sucking loaches are ok), pufferfish, crabs, crayfish or large aggressive fish as they will kill snails.

Did you know?

• Apple snails have both a lung and a gill used to obtain oxygen. 
• Apple snails can cruise upside down under the surface film of the water. 
• The apple snail family contains the largest freshwater snail species in the world!
• Apple snails have a snorkel-like tube called a siphon which they use to suck atmospheric air into their gill chamber.
• Apple snails use smell more than sight to locate their food
• Apple snails have a trapdoor at the opening of their shell called an operculum.
• The teeth of an apple snail is know as the radula.
• Apple snails can catch food floating on the waters' surface by making a funnel with their foot!
• Apple snails can become tame pets, accepting food from their owners hand.
• Apple snails love to play in airstone bubbles!