Snails

[MermaidMel]

When adding snails to a mid-size aquarium, will the fact that they clean up a lot of waste inside outweigh how much waste they produce, or vice versa? I've got 3 leopard ramshorns coming to me and I don't know whether they are going to create more or erradicate more waste? I'm thinking, surely something that eats x amount of waste, we reproduce x amount of waste too?

 

[Straydum]

i dont think they would actually eat waste. more likely would be the left over food at the bottom.

 

[znk]

They dont eat waste. They eat algae and left over food. So what ever waste they produce is added just like a fish.

 

[Musho3210]

you may find them digging around in poo and think that they eat poop, but they just dissolve it in the water column and pick out undigested stuff.

 

[MermaidMel]

Oops, I so badly explain this didn't I. I didn't mean waste as in poo, I meant waste as in uneaten food. So my question should have been what's worse - waste decaying food or snail poo!

 

[Matty P]

Hmm... not to sure tbh. If you don't overfeed your lil fish there won't be any waste

 

[MermaidMel]

Hmm... not to sure tbh. If you don't overfeed your lil fish there won't be any waste

Well I feed them once a day and they are well and truly finished within the 5 minutes, I also fast them 1 day a week.

I was just wondering really