Yellow Chopstick Snail (Stenomelania plicaria)

Yellow Chopstick Snail (Stenomelania plicaria)

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This rare chopstick snail species is an excellent scavenger and substrate sifter!

The Yellow Chopstick Snail (Stenomelania plicaria) is an excellent scavenger and substrate sifter with a unique, spike-shaped appearance. This snail is native to Taiwan and has a very unique yellow-tan coloration. Like other chopstick snails, it traverses all areas of the water column and spends a good amount of time burrowing in the substrate.

Feeding and care is very easy for the hardy Yellow Chopstick Snail. It requires the same maintenance and conditions as most tropical aquarium snails and should never be exposed to copper. It will eat nearly any high-quality dry and frozen foods, but it will also feed heavily on algae, biofilm, and decaying plant matter in the aquarium. It will not harm live ornamental plants.

What We Like About These Snails:

Completely peaceful
Unique, spike-shaped shell with yellow-tan coloration
Safe with all plants and excellent for sifting substrate
Excellent scavenger and algae eater

RECOMMENDED TANK PARAMETERS:

Temperature: 72° - 86° F (22° - 30° C)
pH: 7.0 – 8.2
KH: 2 - 12 dKH
Minimum tank size: 5 gallons per snail

CARE GUIDELINES:

Diet: Scavenger that feeds continually. Requires very little feeding in a well-established aquarium containing algae, biofilm, or decaying plant matter. In less mature aquariums, high quality dry foods with high plant content can be sparingly fed daily.
Warning! Avoid any food product, medication, or plant fertilizer that contains Copper of any form. Copper is toxic to invertebrates. Many commercial fish foods, medications, and plant fertilizers contain copper or more commonly copper sulfate. Always look at the ingredient list for any product going into the aquarium to ensure they are copper free.
Social behavior: Peaceful
Origin: Indonesia, Philippines
Average adult size: 1 - 2.5 inches (2.5 - 3.8 cm)
Average purchase size: 1 - 2 inches (2.5 - 5 cm)

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For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.

UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.

Shipping Schedule for this service

UPS 1 Day: Monday through Thursday

Current Handling Time:

1-9 business days

Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.

Shipping Rate

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