Among fans of house aquariums freshwater ampullyariya enjoy wide popularity. They not only decorate a nature corner with the exotic appearance, but also clear walls of an artificial reservoir of excess seaweed. Feeding of aquarian snails usually does not cause big difficulties, however it has to be subordinated to special rules.
It is required to you
- - seaweed;
- - vegetables (salad, spinach, carrots, cabbage);
- - forage for small fishes;
- - for young growth: duckweed, salad, richchiya, Cyclops.
Instruction
1. In to the nature aquarian snails eat mainly vegetable food therefore seaweed with rigid, large leaves have to become a basis of a diet of your pet. It does not make sense to keep in an artificial reservoir with ampullyariya gentle expensive plants – mollusks quickly will break them and will destroy. In search of a forage of a snail can turn all ground soil and dig out small seaweed with roots.
2. If you lodge ampullyariya in the volume aquarium which grew with seaweed you long should not feed up mollusks. They will clear a reservoir of excess plants. To keep biological balance in an aquarium, after cleaning of excess vegetation put him Canadian elodeyu. The emerald network of leaves of these seaweed will be long pleasing to the eye – for snails it is inedible.
3. To keep a part of edible water vegetation, it is possible to feed up ampullyariya vegetables: spinach, salad lettuce, fresh cucumber, carrots, cabbage. Products with solid cellulose are recommended to be scalded previously boiled water or to boil.
4. Aquarian snails are not vegetarians at all, they are actually omnivorous. Mollusks with pleasure will eat food of animal origin, to gather additionally the remains after small fishes. These are the true hospital attendants of an aquarium who digest all decaying organic chemistry. Ampullyariya especially respect a crank (raspberry), meat and caviar. However they will not be able to compete with more brisk inhabitants of an artificial reservoir therefore never they will be eaten around.
5. In digestive system of snails there is a set of microorganisms which help them to acquire very large number of food. However if to overfeed ampillyariya, water quickly will become muddy from waste of their activity even at the good filter. Choose a diet for each pet individually - the amount of food should not exceed requirements of an organism. The checked fact: only those "hospital attendants" whom you always underfeed a little will clean up an aquarium.
6. It is necessary to enter the wiped forage for small fishes into a diet of young growth, a duckweed, salad, a richchiya and the Cyclops scalded in boiled water.