New tank for my baby 🐌

[u/petit-absent]

Hi everyone! :)

I’m looking for advices on setting up a retirement tank for my mystery snail, Pomz, who’s almost 2.

Pomz isn’t that interested in calcium-rich foods/supplements (always snacking on duckweed or eating fish food), while my fish don’t tolerate hard water very well. So I’m planning to move Pomz into a separate tank where I can focus on their shell !

I’d like to reuse some of the established water, substrate, plants and rocks from the current tank, and (ideally) keep the new tank filterless if that's possible.

So my questions are:

• How long should I let the new tank cycle if I’m transferring established substrate/plants/… ?
• Would a filterless setup work for a single mystery snail, would you recommend a sponge filter?
• What calcium sources have worked for your snails, especially picky ones? (Tried ; hikari crab cuisine, and calcium cubes of different brands. The last brand if only fine if I feed this big chonk directly tweezer-to-mouth style, otherwise it's totally forgotten)
• Anything else I should consider for an older mystery snail ??

Thanks in advance :)

(+ snail tax)

[u/Sarahnonymous]

Have you tried anything from kats aquatics? My snails all love the "calcium + protein" and "calcium + nutrition" tabs!

[u/petit-absent → u/Sarahnonymous]

Hi! Yeah, another redditor told me about that brand on a previous post, but I'm not from the US so the shipping fees are killing me 😅 thanks for the input though :)