Magoop
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I have recently lost my favorite jerk of a snail nerite (loved to hang out right above the waterline so it was sometimes a bigger to find him to do a head count) and got a few horned nerites to replace them in my ten gallon brackish. These are significantly smaller than the previous one. So I'm probably going to have at least 3 for a while.
Main question, how big of a bioload will these guys be? I recall reading ghost shrimp will eat snail poop, and I currently have 3 gs as well. And from what I found on ghost shrimp seems to be that they have a low bioload as well, at least as long as there is not too many.
Would I be fine with my 3 snail to get shrimp configuration or should I cut back on the nerites?
Randomly wondering, can the horned variety breed with the none-horned variety? I know eggs can be a problem but I'm not too worried about that atm.
And I would also assume trumpet/Malaysian Live- bearing snails would also have the same bioload as the nerites? I understand they (trumpets) breed like crazy, but I'm more putting them in the aquarium with just the crayfish as they are a bit easier for the one-clawed David Andersen to catch, are free from work, clean the tank, and are not as big on bioload as the feeder fish
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Main question, how big of a bioload will these guys be? I recall reading ghost shrimp will eat snail poop, and I currently have 3 gs as well. And from what I found on ghost shrimp seems to be that they have a low bioload as well, at least as long as there is not too many.
Would I be fine with my 3 snail to get shrimp configuration or should I cut back on the nerites?
Randomly wondering, can the horned variety breed with the none-horned variety? I know eggs can be a problem but I'm not too worried about that atm.
And I would also assume trumpet/Malaysian Live- bearing snails would also have the same bioload as the nerites? I understand they (trumpets) breed like crazy, but I'm more putting them in the aquarium with just the crayfish as they are a bit easier for the one-clawed David Andersen to catch, are free from work, clean the tank, and are not as big on bioload as the feeder fish
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