Best snail.............

[masterqaz]

Im looking for a snail that loves hair algea and rock work. I have many astrea snails but they never seem to leave the sides of my tank and go for the plentiful amounts of tasty hair algea that i have growing on my rock work. Any ideas for a snail that would rather stay on the rock.

 

[chaseracing]

Large Turbo Snail.

 

[masterqaz]

Ive heard that there good but i dont really like putting bull dozers in my tank. I've had them before and they just seem to knock everything over.

 

[chaseracing]

True, but they will fix the problem of the hair algea.

They also force you to rearrange the landscaping once in a while.

A tang would work also, but you can't put one in a nano.

-=E=-

 

[DrBegalke]

Get some cerith snails.

 

[masterqaz]

what about nerite snails?

 

[Monti]

Red banded Trochus snail. If acclimated well they are very hardy, reproduce easily, and great for hair/microalgae. Don't get super huge like Mexican Turbos. Sweet snail...

 

[masterqaz]

you have a pic of one?

 

[Monti]

No... you can google Trochus radiatus and should give you some pics. And I retract my statement about them not getting big (I forgot how big they can get eventually :rolleye1: ), but the beauty is that they reproduce well enough that by the time you need to pull the big ones to trade them in at the lfs, you should have a nice crop of little ones to let grow out!

 

[masterqaz]

ya ive seen some big ones, unfortunatly though with trochus snails thay dont really have any means of protection as they dont have a calcerous closing flap like astrea's, lithopomas etc.

 

[AndyB4784]

you can find small turbo snails i have 2 that have never knocked over a coral.

 

[joeycadre]

my bubblebee snails cruise the rockwork at night. i have no hair algae at all. you never see them during the day but opnce the lights go out they go to work.