Name: Golden Mystery Snail Breeder Combo Box
Brand: Aquatic Arts
SKU: 12105051303031
Price: 38.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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BREEDER COMBO BOX:

This is a combo box designed for optimal breeding results to help you quickly start a breeding group of Golden Mystery Snails. Your Snail Breeder Combo Box will include the following:

5 Golden Mystery Snails (Pomacea bridgesii), which ship out as young snails that range from 1/4 to 1 inch in length. ($18.99)
Aquatic Arts Starter Snail Food Pack ($9.99)
Botanical Combo Pack ($14.99)

If Purchased Separately you would have to pay $43.97 for the contents of this combo box! Start your snail breeding project the right way with this great deal!

These large and striking snails are great for adding some color to your aquarium, but they also serve some very useful purposes. They clean algae off of glass, plants, and decorations, they eat hair algae, and they keep your substrate clean and the correct color. They are totally safe with any fish, shrimp, or plants, and are completely peaceful. These snails are quite large as adults, growing up to 3 inches in diameter! Golden Mystery Snails' shells are a bright and cheery golden yellow color. Their bodies are pearly white with iridescent markings that are truly breathtaking when they catch the light.

Mystery Snails are generally much more active and display more playful behavior than other types of freshwater snails. They are almost constantly scaling the walls of the aquarium, extending their antennae in search of food. They will climb up to the water line in to breathe air, so it's a good idea to make sure the water line in your aquarium isn't too high. When a Mystery Snail reaches the top of a wall or structure, it will often let go of the wall and glide rapidly downward until it crashes into plants or into the substrate below, often eliciting a "Weeee!" sound from any witnesses.

We try to ship mostly young Mystery Snails to customers so that they can be kept and enjoyed for more of their lifespan; thus, most of our Mystery Snails will arrive at a smaller size (around .25 - 1.5 inches (1.3 - 5 cm) in diameter). They have voracious appetites and grow in size VERY quickly if they are fed well; a young Mystery Snail can double in size in a matter of weeks to months. As with all freshwater snails, Mystery Snails are very sensitive to copper, so it's advisable to monitor your copper levels if you use tap water in your tank.

NOTE: If you search the Internet for Mystery Snails, many results will state that these are the same species as Apple Snails. These are NOT Apple Snails, though they do resemble them in shape. Apple Snails are considered an invasive species and are illegal to own in the United States. Our Mystery Snails do not grow to the tremendous size that Apple Snails do (often as big as an apple).

What We Like About This Snail:

Bright and beautiful golden yellow shell coloration
Its playful behavior makes it more fun to watch than other snails
Safe with plants
Completely peaceful

RECOMMENDED TANK PARAMETERS:

Temperature: 68° - 84° F (20° - 29° C)
pH: 7.6 - 8.4
KH: 2 - 15 dKH
Minimum tank size: 2.5 gallons per snail

CARE GUIDELINES:

Diet: Other than algae and biofilm, Mystery Snails also eat leftover fish/invertebrate flakes and pellets and blanched vegetables such as zucchini, kale, spinach, or cucumber.
Social behavior: Peaceful and solitary; will not engage with tankmates.
Origin: Tank-bred, but indigenous to South America.
Average adult size: 2.5 - 3+ inches (5 - 7.6+ cm)
Average purchase size: .25 - 1 inch (1.3 - 2.5 cm)

All Aquatic Arts brand plants and animals come with a 100% live arrival guarantee, plus free email support!

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

Pricing is by size of package needed to fill entire order and distance it must travel. It will be calculated at checkout.