The care set offers the best all-round protection for your animals.
Also free of algae spores, bacteria and fungi.Įxpert Tip: We recommend for fish keeping the NatureHolic 3 Phase Liquid. These are free of snails, planarians and other unwanted co-inhabitants. Our plant recommendation: Use for the planting NatureHolic InVitros. Even delicate wild-caught snails such as racing snails or staghorn snails, which are stressed after transport and do not accept conventional food, can be fed up well with it.
Our food recommendation: With the Natureholic Snail Feed Power Paste you create a feeding lawn that is very well accepted by all growth eating snails. Fish that are too curious and tug at the sipho or antennae will disturb the snail so much that it will retract and possibly even starve to death in the shell. Keep Pila ampullacea best together with peaceful, not too curious fish, with shrimps or other peaceful snails. Can reach the size of an apple, but in Hawaii they tend to be slightly smaller than a golfball. Pila ampulacea breathes through a sipho, which it extends towards the water surface. Freshwater snail with a rounded, yellowish to dark brown shell. Such a large snail extracts quite a bit of lime from the water, so make sure there is a source of lime in the aquarium (ground cuttlebone, crushed eggshells or our Mineral Cubes) and don't neglect weekly water changes.Īquariums from 54 l are suitable for a group of two to four Pila ampullacea - larger is of course always possible! The Asian apple snail likes to bury itself, so the substrate should be high enough. A certain amount of frozen food is very beneficial to their health. The Asian apple snail eats live and dead plants, vegetables and green food, brown Foliage, special Snail food and carrion. In particular, the large shells must not get stuck anywhere. Pila ampullacea is a rather quiet snail, which nevertheless needs an aquarium set up for its needs. Depending on the temperature, 15-20 young snails hatch from the clutches after a few weeks. After mating, the females like to lay the white, chalky clutches well out of the water on plant stems, so it is recommended to cover the aquarium to prevent the snails from escaping unintentionally. The Asian apple snail is separately sexual. In its native Southeast Asia, Pilla ampullacea is popularly eaten and is considered a delicacy. The genus Pila is easily recognized by its calcified operculum (the lid with which it closes its shell opening). Their cone-shaped smooth right-wound shell is reddish brown to dark brown, sometimes with a fine spiral stripe. This possibly largest apple snail species in the hobby can reach up to 10 cm shell diameter. Only the genus Pomacea is affected by the ban. Pilla ampullacea is one of the apple snail species that may still be imported into the EU and also distributed here.