How to sell snails
How to sell a $1000 a month Breeding for Profit Update
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hey what's going on guys this is jason
with Javan aquatics and lily and today
we're gonna talk a little bit more about
breeding for profit and breeding mystery
snails no not fish but breeding mystery
snails in the incredible success that
I'm having in breeding them and right
now I'm currently selling them on eBay I
only have just a few left at this point
I'll link that listing down below if you
guys are interested and getting them
just know as you watch this video you'll
see that the ones that I'm now selling
are ones that are quite a bit smaller
first of all you guys should go back and
watch my first video I'll link that
above that goes into a deeper
explanation of the way that I'm
currently doing this but right now I've
begin to change things up quite a bit
I'm constantly changing it because of
the fact that I'm trying to get better
egg hatch rate and I'm trying to get
better sub up survival rate of the
babies because that seems to be the most
difficult part right now now with the
setup that I have I'm probably getting
with when you count all the eggs I'd
probably get over two to three hundred
eggs every single day but there is no
where that amount that actually hatches
and grows up and I haven't been able to
figure out when I have them which ones
are you telling hi
I haven't been competing on me yeah
you're on look see you on the screen
right there that's Lily and so I haven't
been able to tell quite yet
whether or not the eggs are fertile
there really doesn't seem to be any kind
of signs of whether or not they're
fertilized or not fertilized so that's
something that I'm still trying to
figure out if you guys know of any way
be sure and leave it down in the
comments below I would love to know that
and so these are just gonna be some of
the different processes that I'm trying
to get to get better success rate with
egg hatching and better success rate
with the baby so let's go ahead and move
over to that tank that I have that I'm
doing the grow outs in so we can talk
about it a little bit more alright so
here we have my 40 gallon breeder this
is the grow-out tank for all of my
mystery snails and this is this is
pretty empty let me show you guys a
quick shot of how many I had about two
weeks ago now again that's at a 10
gallon aquarium so it's a little
deceiving but I do have I've sold a ton
of these things in the last two weeks I
have probably had to fill probably close
to 3000 orders now one of the things
that I'm doing differently before I was
selling 10 of these at a time and I was
selling some of the bigger sizes but it
takes so long to grow these things up
sometimes that I decided that I was
gonna move into selling smaller but
selling more for the same price so now
I'm selling 15 at a time and the typical
size that I'm selling or you know is
about right here which you see these
guys I'll typically throw in maybe one
or two big ones if I have them but the
majority the assortment is gonna be
these guys that are just about a
dime-size is what they are so I want to
I want to kind of show you some
different things that I'm doing because
I've always have different types of
problems one of them is getting all the
eggs to hatch
another one is trying to raise up the
babies and so I keep trying different
type of procedures down here down here
you'll see that this is my adult tank
and so this is where I get all of the
eggs from so these guys I keep the water
level low and then like you can see kind
of back in the back there's a few egg
casings I just pulled some out of here
the other day so there's not a lot and
so used to I would just leave the egg
casings in this tank and just let them
ahead hatch naturally but it the problem
is is these guys are constantly up at
the top and they're always knocking
these egg sacs down into the water and
then once they go into the water it ends
up killing the babies that are in them
so one of the things that I tried before
is I tried moving those eggs up into
this tank and then I would take just a
piece of foam and float just let them
float on the top and that worked pretty
good but it didn't seem to work that
great it seems like maybe some of the
ones we're starting to dry out so the
next thing that I tried to do is I tried
to remove them and put them inside of a
deli cup now I let me grab now what I
would use is these deli cups right here
these are the same deli cups that I ship
the mystery snails in and so I would
take these and then I would put a wet
paper towel in here and then I would put
the egg sacks on top of here and so you
know there may be 10 or 20 of them then
I put the lid on there and then I would
cut a few little small holes in the lid
so this thing can breathe that way they
would get the moisture that they need
but the problem that I kept running into
there is after a week or two that that
it would start to build up mold all
around the paper towels and that just
became a pain and that didn't seem to
work any better so the next thing that
I've started using that seems to be
working quite a bit better is this
and as you can see we've got a a piece
of foam let's move the light here so we
can see what we're doing we've got it
we've got a piece of foam and then the
stuff that I have on top this is that
this is like this knitting material that
you can find like at any craft store and
you can see this stuff has holes in it
let me get a nut let me get a like a
white piece and so that this is actually
what this stuff is the one I use is
black this hole is probably a little bit
small the babies get caught in here
every once well but the idea is that the
eggs hatch and then the babies crawl off
and then they fall through the holes
that's kind of what the idea is but I
don't typically ever let my babies hatch
when I once I see that the egg sacs are
getting real gray and real soft then I
will release the babies myself so for
them to fall through the holes almost
never happens because I almost never let
it get that far but again I've taken it
so that the styrofoam only goes around
the outside not through the middle so
that this part is exposed to the water
that way it's getting the moisture and
stuff that it needs and I'm finding that
I'm having a better hatch rate and it
also seems like they're hatching quicker
than they normally would
now I'm not keeping the greatest data to
know that for sure but at that again
that's just kind of what it what it
seems like to me and so that's the idea
that I'm currently working on I'll link
a video up above youtubers name is
chubby guppy or is it chub guppy I don't
remember which one it is but I'll link
the video up above and he kind of did
this cool idea where he used this
Windies container to create another way
to do this so you guys want to watch
that and kind of get an idea how he did
it I thought it was kind of cool that
might be something that I try in the
future also and one of the things you
you just don't ever know is whether or
not these eggs are actually fertilized
so you're gonna get some that just never
had
because they were never worked
fertilized but due to the fact I got a
hundred adults in there I don't see how
one could get by on fertilized but I'm
sure it is possible so basically what I
do every day is I look at this I turn
this thing around and I try to look for
some ones that are that are greater than
others and then I kind of touch them
like this to see how soft they are and
this this one right here is pretty soft
so this one is probably actually ready
to go and then what I used to do before
is I would just put it here in the water
and then just kind of shake it off and
watch the babies fall to the bottom but
I was beginning to see like there's
quite a few dead babies so if you look
here at the bottom yeah believe it or
not I just clean this out yesterday
these things when you feed them as much
as I do they're very messy the little
ones that you see that are kind of a
bleached out white those are those are
dead ones and the ones that kind of have
a brownish tint are the ones that are
that are alive so you can see that that
I lose quite a few babies and that's
something that I'm trying to figure out
how to avoid so instead of just dumping
them in there what I've decided to start
doing is this method right here and so
now I take one of these breeder boxes
the Mirena ones that you know that are
constantly changing water and then I
dump the babies in here and what I've
noticed is after the first 24 hours the
babies don't eat it all they release and
then they almost all try to climb up to
the top of the container I'm assuming
they must still be like eating on their
egg sack or something or maybe I've
released them a little bit early and and
so now these guys have been in here
about 48 hours and so I'm kind of trying
to figure out what it is they like to
eat more than anything else I've got
back there a piece of a green bean that
probably has 10 or 15 on them I've got
these cichlid pellets that I like to
feed to the adults and there's only a
few on there this is the snail jello
that I make the
all the calcium in it you can see
there's a few on there and then I also
threw in just some moss because you'll
see them if you put moss in there you
tend to see them in the moss a lot so
right now it looks like the the green
beans are the one that that's winning so
the idea is this makes it a whole lot
easier for them to find a food source
whenever I pour the green means in there
the the entire colony will eat all the
green beans within maybe two hours which
many times some of the babies that are
maybe up here at the top you know never
get a chance to go down to the bottom to
actually find them so hopefully by
having them in here this gives them a
food source that's really really easy to
get to because of them being so many in
there it just doesn't have enough time
to build enough algae up for these guys
to actually eat and so here here's one
of the sets of babies that I have right
here so you can kind of watch you can
see as I'm just kind of just barely
twisting it in my hands the the babies
are just falling to the bottom and then
the excess stuff I just kind of let
float around because eventually they
they'll get around to actually eating
that now the rest of this one it kind of
doesn't look like it's actually ready to
let any more of the snails out so I'll
twist it around a few more times and
then I'll actually just put this one
back on here and let it let it go for a
little bit longer thanks again guys for
joining us we love each and every one of
you be sure and leave a comment down
below if you have a question be sure and
leave a question if you guys got some
better ideas of what to do I would love
to hear some of the ways that you're
having success or maybe you saw another
youtuber or someone else that was doing
it that was having much better success
would love to hear what it is that you
know I'd love to be able to try each one
of those different ways out so thanks
again guys and God bless