The spiny snail (Melanoides Granifera) is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Melanoides Granifera. He should not be kept with aggressive fish that could harm him. The most active is in the evening or at night.
Feeding Melanoides Granifera
They will continuously search for food through and on the substrate and can be fed with cooked vegetables such as zucchini, spinach, cucumber or lettuce, but most of the time the leftovers of fish meals are sufficient. In order for snails to develop their shell harmoniously, they can be fed shellfish food or provide a surplus of calcium in the form of tablets.
Features Melanoides Granifera
They require an aquarium with clean water and fine substrate, as they will spend a lot of time buried. They will not eat the plants and will not uproot them. Their habit of being buried makes it almost impossible to estimate the population in the aquarium but if they come out of the substrate and climb the glass or other objects in the aquarium is a sign that the substrate needs to be cleaned because it may have high concentrations of nitrates or other toxic substances or that the water itself has a quality problem, so they are good indicators of water.
They will not bother either fish, other snails or shrimp but we must take care that the fish do not eat them, so avoid Botia species or large Cichlidae, or killer snails.
Reproduction Melanoides Granifera
Sexual dimorphism: these snails are hermaphrodites, that is, they possess both male and female reproductive organs.
They do not lay eggs but give birth directly to live chicks. If living conditions are satisfactory they will breed in a manner similar to melanoides tuberculata snails.
