Good Snails?

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.

hammerhead911

Aquarium Advice Regular
Joined
Mar 1, 2005
Messages
89
Location
Melbourne FL
I finished my cycle.....finally. 65 gallon FOWLR. What are some good snails that won't eat my coraline algea. I've got the normal post-cycle diatoms. and a tiny amount of green hairlike algea. What and how many snails do I need?
 
I dont know of any snails that will eat the coraline, Urchins will eat it.
What type of fish are you getting? If you are getting fish that will eat them then no reason to get them.
Get a mix of hermits and snails start out with a small number in a new tank because there may not be a a lot of food for them.
A 12-24 hermits and 12-24 snails. If you get Turbos only get a few 3-5 they are big and need lots of food. I got a mix of snails in my tanks, astraea, turbo, red stripe, nassarius,nerite, ceriths. Stay away from the bumblebee snails, they will eat other snails.
 
I want snails that WON'T eat my coraline. I put about ten astraeas in the tank. The first thing I noticed was they were eating the purple coraline right of thr live rock. :( :?:
 
Back
Top Bottom