Margarita or Mexican Turbo Snails?

[dyvaeh]

I keep getting conflicting information, so I hope someone can clear this up for me. We are going to add to our cleanup crew in the next week and the package comes with Mexican Turbo Snails, Margarita Snails, or Zebra Turbo Snails. Which should I choose? I keep hearing that Mexican Turbos don't do well in the warmer water, but then another thread will say the same about Margarita snails.

Also, does anything eat cyanobacteria? We had an outbreak recently and REALLY don't want that to happen again!

 

[Pea-brain]

I know the majority of margaritas we get are coldwater snails that rarely last longer than 3-4 months. I dunno about mexican turbos (they sound like the same thing to me.....)

Dan

 

[tmgrash]

My Mexican Turbos do great and are the best snails in my tank. It does seem that my margaritas dont do well in the warm water and have been dieing off slowly


Travis

 

[nick540]

i have had a similar experience with the turbos doing well and the margaritas not doing so well.

 

[J. Montgomery]

I've had a group of Margarita snails in my tank for ~10 months. Mexican turbos are great cleanup crew members for eating algae that other snails don't touch. The downside is that they are big and knock things over. Depending on your tank size, you only need one or two of the Mexican turbos.

I bought Margarita snails b/c a LFS employee told me they eat cyano . . . mine don't.

Be sure to get a mix of snails:
Nassarius and Tonga Nassarius are good sand snails.
Large Cerinth snails (available from Reeftopia, I think) are good too.
Astrea (Turbo) snails are popular, but can't right themselves if they fall on their back.

 

[Pea-brain]

I like astreas and nerites for my glass and rocks, but I am down to one of each so I need to go and get some more.I also keep ceriths, and seem to be down to 2 right now. One of them is really stocky and black and stay in this rock until night or feeding time. I also have smaller nass snails and am down to 4 out of 10 now I think. Need to get some more of those. I don't know where they go. I think either the black cerith or some of my nass snails may be eating my other snails. I've heard of nass that eats other snails when they get too hungry...I read about them somewhere....anybody know anything about those or what the cerith might really be (like a snail killer! ) ( don't mean to hijack, but I think the question has been answered....)

Dan

Edit: added info

 

[joejoe1055]

i've heard both mexican turbo's and margarita don't do well in hot climate for long, if picking between the two i would go with margarita the turbos just knock too much stuff off
i like the astrea the best maybe they don't eat the algae like a turbo but the live long time