Snails?

[foxyfuchsbau]

Unsure of where to post within a forum..

What snails are recommended for tanks? As a good CUC.

What snails eat hair algae?

I have been trying to find more trochus snails as they can flip themselves over, but I haven't found any the last few months. I have 4 and they basically stay on the back of my tank.

I have MAYBE 6-8 bumble snails (they can flip themselves too) but yes they are TINY... and my pink speckled goby likes to pile them by his spot so I feel like they don't really accomplish much.

A bit of history here, I use to have all kinds of snails, margarita, nerite, astrea, but they'd all fall down the back of the tank and I stopped flipping then over everyday. That's why I look for ones that can flip themselves. I had a whole snail shell graveyard, granted my hermits have taken over a lot of them.

About a week ago I got a single margarita snail, he's been everywhere and leaving his marks on the front glass, my history of snails they barely touch the front. Did I get lucky with this tiny baby margarita or did I fluke out with the others?

I also picked up a turbo snail (with the margarita) and though he has made a round around some rocks, he's on the back of the tank too.

I personally have a weird Obsession with snails. I love them.

 

[blaxsun]

Trochus/turbo snails are great for glass and general cleaning.
Ring cowries are good for rocks/dinos; spiny astrea are good for rocks.
Cerith and nassarius snails are good for your sand bed.

 

[kevgib67]

Trochus and turbos are my go to but ninja stars are good. I to have bumblebees, ceriths , conchs and nassarius. The best algae eater in my tank, hands down, is my tuxedo urchin.

 

[Sump Crab]

Trochus are the best IME but urchins are way better at eating hair algae

 

[Uncle99]

Nitrites, small, the size of a pea, and get into many crevices and glass.
Very resilient little guys, good cleaners.
Don’t seem to get picked off.

 

[foxyfuchsbau]

Nitrites, small, the size of a pea, and get into many crevices and glass.
Very resilient little guys, good cleaners.
Don’t seem to get picked off.

My nitrites were about the size of a nickel an up! Pretty big. My bumble are the size of pea though!

 

[foxyfuchsbau]

Trochus are the best IME but urchins are way better at eating hair algae

I've been eyeballing urchins, buy I don't think I have enough algae to get one.

I HAD hair algae on a single mushroom frag that no one was touching, but yesterday took some big chunks of hair algae away. I was trying to manage that one tiny spot of hair algae.

 

[foxyfuchsbau]

Trochus and turbos are my go to but ninja stars are good. I to have bumblebees, ceriths , conchs and nassarius. The best algae eater in my tank, hands down, is my tuxedo urchin.

I don't believe I have enough algae for an urchin. But I've been looking at them!!

 

[foxyfuchsbau]

Trochus/turbo snails are great for glass and general cleaning.
Ring cowries are good for rocks/dinos; spiny astrea are good for rocks.
Cerith and nassarius snails are good for your sand bed.

Oh awesome cheat sheet! Thank you!!!!

 

[Uncle99]

My nitrites were about the size of a nickel an up! Pretty big. My bumble are the size of pea though!

Wow, too big for me, I need them to get where others cannot in my rockscape,the BB is a sand guy.

 

[kevgib67]

I don't believe I have enough algae for an urchin. But I've been looking at them!!

When I am low on algae I rubber band a piece of nori to a rock or throw in an algae wafer for my tuxedo urchin and the other cuc.

 

[foxyfuchsbau]

Wow, too big for me, I need them to get where others cannot in my rockscape,the BB is a sand guy.

Thats exactly why I went with the bumble

When I am low on algae I rubber band a piece of nori to a rock or throw in an algae wafer for my tuxedo urchin and the other cuc.

I've heard they eat a lot? That's my only concern.

 

[kevgib67]

Thats exactly why I went with the bumble

I've heard they eat a lot? That's my only concern.

They are constantly eating, a plus, but I don’t have to add supplemental feeding often . A handful of times in 21 months.