Help, I've fallen and can't get up!!!!

[connpatd]

I need more snails, what do you suggest?

I prefer not to buy any that can't right themselves when they fall onto their back. I have a ton of empty shells from snails that slipped off the glass and became hermit food.

What kinds would you suggest for algaea grazing and detritus/uneaten food?

Thanks!

 

[bertoni]

Trochus and Stomatella snails will be fine as far as falling, but hermit crabs will eat snails, period.

 

[connpatd]

It doesn't help when they are laying helpless on their backs though.

I rarely see the hermits bothering my snails except when they are upside down and unable to move.

Where's a good place to order from (cheap)?

 

[bertoni]

I have bought Trochus from ipsf.com, and both types from InlandAquatics.com, but IPSF only sells them in a combo pack. There are likely other vendors. Both species can reproduce in tanks, so I have all I need and then some.

 

[tmz]

I aslso like cerith snails as scavengers if you have sand.

 

[HABS#1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11545436#post11545436 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tmz
I aslso like cerith snails as scavengers if you have sand.

They also work great in crushed coral and in aragonite.

 

[Macimage]

I use all Nassarius snails.

Joyce