BLUEBERRY SNAIL VIVIPARUS TROPICAL FRESH WATER / SHRIMP SAFE

The PAPUA Snail is a still unidentified operculum snail from the Viviparidae family from Indonesia

The shell of this viviparous snail from the Viviparidae family is reddish-brown to pink and grows to 2-3 cm. The foot is strikingly dark blue in color and has funny golden speckles. Like all Viviparidae, this exotic operculum has separate sexes. You can recognize the sexually mature males by their thickened right antennae.

Females have a brood pouch inside their shell where the fertilized eggs develop. Every two to three weeks, the females release a single fully developed young, preferably during the night.

In the habitat, PAPUA Snails mainly live on the bottom of sediment-rich waters. They also like to bury themselves in the aquarium from time to time. Sand as a substrate or a corner with healing earth as a substrate therefore meets their needs.

You can keep a small group of five PAPUA Snails in aquaria from 15 liters at a temperature of 22 to 28°C pH from 7.5. Make sure the water quality is good!

As a filtering snail, the PAPUA Snail should be fed with a high-quality powdered food (e.g. NatureHolic fan feed). However, the lid snail also likes to graze on algae and biofilms from wood and other furnishings in the aquarium. She also likes to eat  Dried Hokkaido pumpkins or brown autumn leaves are also readily grazed