Aquacultured snails: evolved glass cleaners?

[sellmecorals]

Would there be any available snails that have been bred for generations and have adapted to getting stubborn algae off glass?

 

[Tangnerd]

All of my snails like to eat off the glass...

 

[sellmecorals]

Lol what I'm asking is if there are a breed of snails that have been engineered or have evolved over generations of keeping them, to scrape off glass better?

 

[Tangnerd]

Oh oops. Never heard of a "super" snail.

 

[Tzwizzle]

Um I could be wrong but I think most snails, while they will breed in aquariums, are not tank bred. I think most are wild caught in tide pools.

 

[sellmecorals]

I wonder how long this adaptation would take if at all

 

[pagojoe]

You could probably selectively breed them like dairy cows, picking out the ones that clean best, and killing the rest. Over a few thousand years you could have your own breed of super-cleaner snails!


Don

 

[Betta132]

Most saltwater snails breed by releasing eggs into the water. I don't think you can really breed them in aquariums, although there are a couple of kinds that I've heard can breed.