3 new nerites, and you can see why.....
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Don't know much about snails, Nerites are the big colourful ones I assume, do they eat those tubular ones then? are the tubular ones pests?
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Nerites are just very good algae eaters
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The little tubular ones are MTS, they hide during the day and breed fast. A few can look nice but hundreds will give people the creeps, I like using nerite snails to control the available food.Staffylover wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 20:30 pm Don't know much about snails, Nerites are the big colourful ones I assume, do they eat those tubular ones then? are the tubular ones pests?
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I have hundreds of MTS, amongst the tanks (except the Trigon where there's still 3 zebra loaches) but they don't eat much algae.
This is the only tank without algae eaters in (BNs in the other three), so it always looks a mess - hence the nerites....I've not seen any for a while, so took advantage when I did.
This is the only tank without algae eaters in (BNs in the other three), so it always looks a mess - hence the nerites....I've not seen any for a while, so took advantage when I did.
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Looks like an "albino" bladder snail from the pic.....usually because there's not enough calcium around to colour up the shell.
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I always have a few pest type snails, I quite like to see them hopefully they help to turn the substrate over and munch some algae, never seem to get too many so that's lucky since I don't really think about it much, saw some apple snails in a shop recently they were huge, don't think I would fancy that!
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On a side note, do we think Angels would snack on bladder snails? My angel tank has no snails left which is a little annoying in my eyes! Could be Keyholes or Bolivian rams too, if it's happening.
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