Jferrante
Aquarium Advice Activist
Today I noticed at least 3 snails appeared in my tank. Likely from an Sword plant that I had bought a week ago that had some hair algae and probably another kind of algae on it... THis is my first planted tank and it's a 55g. But after after looking at the leaves I noticed there are some yellow specks all over it. They appear to either be pond snails or Mystery snails. I'm not sure but based on a few web searches my guess is the former. The tank has a lot of new plants in it and has been running for about 3 weeks now.
Right now they seem to be really helpful at cleaning the sword because it looks kind of ugly with the hair algae on it so if figured I'll let them do their thing since they are just tiny babies still. I haven't tested my water hardness or anything since I don't own that test kit yet but I have the API master kit of course.
But I'm just wondering for future purposes should I keep them in or take them out? Are they good to keep around in a community tank ? and should I worrying about anything if I just let them do their thing.
If they happen to be worth keeping should I get a cuttlebone or something later on so they can harden their shells or will this complicate the water parameters?
Right now they seem to be really helpful at cleaning the sword because it looks kind of ugly with the hair algae on it so if figured I'll let them do their thing since they are just tiny babies still. I haven't tested my water hardness or anything since I don't own that test kit yet but I have the API master kit of course.
But I'm just wondering for future purposes should I keep them in or take them out? Are they good to keep around in a community tank ? and should I worrying about anything if I just let them do their thing.
If they happen to be worth keeping should I get a cuttlebone or something later on so they can harden their shells or will this complicate the water parameters?