Best Snails?

[Arfie]

Yeah they are low maintenance, they eat leftover food, algae and usually like cucumber, courgette (zuccini), lettuce, spinich leaves or good old algae wafers

As I said I have MTS in all my tanks, yes they breed, but their numbers correspond with your feeding habits, overfeed and you get loads. The good thing is, they remain pretty much under the substrate until the lights go off, when they come out to clean up the dead leaves and leftover food.

Arfie

 

[Alps]

what do you use to stop the snails from having shell deterioration?
Almost all snails I've had get this.

 

[Teelie]

Add calcium carbonate. There are liquid and powder mixes as well as cuttlebone. Cuttlebone is just a slice of bone meant for birds to chew on but can equally work for snails. There's also shells and some kind of rock. All of these options will raise the pH levels though so you should keep an eye on them.

 

[Alps]

Add calcium carbonate. There are liquid and powder mixes as well as cuttlebone. Cuttlebone is just a slice of bone meant for birds to chew on but can equally work for snails. There's also shells and some kind of rock. All of these options will raise the pH levels though so you should keep an eye on them.

so you guys use these and they raise your ph? any other way that won't play w/ ph so much?

-what if i put them in a small like 2g tank without anything but the cuttle bone/ or calcium and let them eat that for a few days?
- sorry for being a little off topic

 

[Teelie]

I don't know if that would work, but generally the pH levels are a gradual rise so you shouldn't worry too much. If you have pH below 7, then it should be higher anyways unless you keep Discus or something.

 

[Andreeuh]

Well I went to Petsmart and picked up three mayalasian trumpet snails for free and also another one (not sure what kind???) for free! But instead of the sand I planned on getting, I just got some white gravel, which should look nice.

Anyone have any idea what kind of snail this is?

The MTS are already out of their shells.. Is this normal? I thought they only came out at night.

 

[Teelie]

Looks like a Ramshorn, relative to the Apple Snails.