Product Overview
Trapdoor Pond Snails (Viviparus malleatus)
Trapdoor Snails are the preferred snail species for pond owners. Trapdoor Snails will survive in northern climates, will not eat live healthy plant tissue, and will not climb out of the water. Pond snails are helpful in keeping algae under control in your pond as they groom your plant containers, rocks, liner sides and plants. Trapdoor snails will consume excess fish food, fish waste and decaying leaves from the bottom of the pond, and therefore help to detoxify waste products. Trapdoor Snails are live-bearing (viviparous) -- they don't have as many offspring as most snails, and do not bear young as often, so are unlikely to overpopulate the pond, as is common with egg-laying snails. To have a positive effect on algae growth, a minimum of 10 snails per 50 square feet of pond surface is necessary. Large natural ponds would require at least 200 snails per acre to be effective. It also is important to have pond plants filter the pond and providing some shade, and to not overfeed fish, as the pond's ecosystem needs to be fairly balanced for the snails to make a significant difference.
Minimum order of 10
Reviews
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5 Big Snails!
Posted by Heidi on Jun 19th 2017
The snails arrived with my plants and I couldn't be happier with them. They got to work right away and are doing great.
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5 Big healthy snails!
Posted by Martena Murphy on Jun 11th 2017
Full size adult snails. I was paying 3 times the price at a local nursery for the same thing. Very glad I ordered from LilyBlooms! Received the snails quickly, set them in my pond and they started to open within minutes. By the next morning they were all over the pond munching on algae.
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5 Happy
Posted by Jodi on Jun 6th 2017
MY Japanese Trapdoor snails arrived all alive. Two or Three took a couple days to start moving around but now doing good.
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5 Japanese trapdoor snails
Posted by Unknown on May 30th 2017
Received my order promptly. A very nice batch of snails. After a few hours in the pond, they took off to do their job. Very pleased and will order more.
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3 ...a bit disappointed
Posted by Unknown on May 23rd 2017
The snails were not as large as I had hoped. I have ordered snails from other companies in the past and those were much larger. Also, I left the snails in a bucket of pond water so I could monitor their movement. After 2 full days, I could see only 2 or 3 actually moving around.
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5 Snails
Posted by Unknown on May 9th 2017
All appeared healthy upon arrival. Haven't seen them since. Must be doing well.
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5 Great Snails
Posted by Gwen on Apr 22nd 2017
hi, I ordered 10 snails and received 11 live snails, and then after letting them acclimate in a bucket of pond water, one of the snails, decided to give birth to a bunch of baby snails, so I ended up getting about 30 snails! 10 days since I received my snails every body is doing fine, including my babies!
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5 Much bigger
Posted by phyllis A Lewis on Mar 28th 2017
I was so pleased to see how big these snails are. I am a new pond/goldfish owner and this seems to be be best way to keep my pond clean in a natural way.The price was half what I paid for at another site. Thank you
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5 Beautiful guys!
Posted by Unknown on Aug 15th 2016
They arrived two days later in summer and are fine! I dropped them in my pond in the same spot, and then one started moving immediately! Some took five days or so to finally move. They are adorable.
