Pond Snail-Lymnaea Stagnalis

Pond Snail-Lymnaea StagnalisThe Pond Snail is a common species in Europe and is easy to find. In fact if you have a garden pond set up chances are pond snails will be found in it and failing that you can buy them from aquatic stores with relative ease.
Tha Pond snail

 The Pond Snail is a common species in Europe and is easy to find. In fact if you have a garden pond set up chances are pond snails will be found in it and failing that you can buy them from aquatic stores with relative ease. These are air-breathing snails and adapted to low oxygen conditions in stagnate waters; they actually don’t do well in medium to fast flowing water bodies.

Common names: Pond Snail

Scientific name: Lymnaea Stagnalis

Average Adult Size: 2.5inches / 6cm

Place of originEurope

Typical tank setup: Lots of plants and wood for grazing and providing cover with slow moving water. Often found in garden ponds.

Recommended min. aquarium capacity: 50 imperial gallons / 220 litres. Better kept in ponds

Compatibility: Community snail, but could be seen as food by large fish

Temp: 65 – 80 Deg F / 18 – 26 Deg C

Water chemistry: ph 6-7.5 Tolerable of a wide range of conditions.

Feeding: Lymnaea Stagnalis’s primary diet is vegetation found in their habitat. They feed on pond and aquatic plants so providing these if keeping these snails is essential.

Sexing: These snails are simultaneously hermaphroditic meaning each snail can function as both sexes but only as one or the other during each mating process.

Breeding: Breeding these snails is relatively easy given a good supply of food and maintaining water quality. They often breed in the garden pond and other slow moving bodies of water.

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