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I've been having a lot of luck both with breeding MTS and selling them. I'm thinking about setting up a 1-2g tank just for breeding them and have some questions:

-would I need a filter or would an airstone be adequate?
-is substrate necessary?
-plants?

If anyone else has done a setup like this I'd appreciate knowing what worked for you

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IMO substrate is for sure necessary...they are burrowing guys afterall . Spare plants wouldn't really hurt.

I did have some in an unfiltered on oxygenated 5 gallon....key word did I have a feeling it was the unheated bit that managed to make them unhappy as I still have pondsnails....and they seem more than happy :%).

Warmer temps, plenty of food, and the substrate should be enough :%).

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Breeding mts is about like breeding guppies. Mainly take a snail, some water, put them together, and you'll have at least some success. A substrate to burrow in would be preferred and keeping the temps higher would make them multiply faster to a point. Most snails do better in cooler water even if they multiply faster in warmer water so I wouldn't pass 80F. Mts do fine in unheated tanks and will survive to near freezing but they won't multiply as fast. A filter and substrate would help keep the tank cycled and allow you to feed them more but all they really need is an airstone. More food=more snails. I have some mts breeding in a cup of water right now... It's a color I don't really like so I was seperating them out to lower their population and increase the population of the color I like. I stuck them in a cup until I decide what to do with them.

Thanks! I gave them some rocks, some gravel from another tank, and a bit of hornwort. I went with an airstone so I could switch to a sponge filter if necessary.

By the way, I don't know if this is coincidence or not but after I started feeding mine fresh spinach and sweet potato I started getting some really nice colors.

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I'll have to try the sweet potato and spinach ....then again I like them a bit too much .

Another idea...not sure if it's the wood or the algae from the wood but mine just love crawling all over the bits of driftwood.

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Mine have a favorite rock but they also like driftwood and the moss wall. This one rock though is always coated in mts and mts droppings for some reason.