Help with snails

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

No. They will only eat each other if there is no food and seeing as they eat waste there is always food. If they have eaten each other I should logically have one giant snail left but I don't.

It doesn't quite work out like that with the carnivorous assassin snail.

 

[FishHobby99]

No. They will only eat each other if there is no food and seeing as they eat waste there is always food. If they have eaten each other I should logically have one giant snail left but I don't.

Meant if they controlled the population by eating eggs & infant snails

 

[Playsander]

It doesn't quite work out like that with the carnivorous assassin snail.

I still like my bumblebees. Killer snails get a bad rep.

 

[Moby]

If you get single examples of different types, you can (probably) avoid them trying to reproduce and lay the unsightly eggs.

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Would you say overall they are worth in regards to help cleaning a tank.?

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Would you say overall they are worth in regards to help cleaning a tank.?

Nerites and the so-called pest snails, certainly.
That said, I'd never recommend them as aquarists, because that's what you really need to keep a tank clean.

 

[Moby]

Nerites and the so-called pest snails, certainly.
That said, I'd never recommend them as aquarists, because that's what you really need to keep a tank clean.

Thks,looks like two nerites snails incoming.

 

[Playsander]

Here are two of my assasins sharing an algea flake with an albino cory.