Interesting, thank you for sharing. How big is the cleaning crew?
These leaves used to be covered with black Algae. Look at them now after one week of engaging an army of bubble bee snails
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Interesting, thank you for sharing. How big is the cleaning crew?
I got 5 in my 60cm x 30cm x 45cm tank now. Even algae on the glass are cleared up.
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Do you face problems with eggs laying all over the tank?
I think it's nerite snail, if I not wrong, they do eat plants.. which may not be a good algae solutions in due time.
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Haven't notice any eggs yet. I have these in 3 tanks of mine, haven't notice any plant damage yet. I guess they are still busy with the algae?
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i keep them as well. they dont eat any plant that i have unless decay plant. average adult is about 5 cent coin size.
in my tank i only keep 2 of them and they still mate! I just wonder if they can toggle their gender whenever there are 2 of them...
be prepared for white eggs mainly on tank glass. they wont hatch just that you need to spot it and remove it.
really? can someone confirm that as i actually own 5 of them.. which i kept in my shrimp and snail tank..
if they don't do any damage to plants, i probably will relocate them.
just to reconfirm that we are on the same page:
http://jimsexoticfish.com/algae-eating-nerite-snails
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Nerite snails will not eat healthy live plants, only algae or dead/dying plants.
Only thing is if conditions are good for them, high chance they will eventually lay lots of white eggs everywhere (which wouldn't hatch in freshwater, but just looks unsightly), so you'll need to use a scraper to remove the eggs... unless you're super lucky and happen that all your nerite snails are male.
Nerite Snails have specific genders and cannot switch... the males will not lay any eggs, but the females will still lay unfertilized eggs even without the presence of any males. Hence as long as you have female nerite snails in a tank, they will lay the white eggs.
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Great, ua already endorsed.
So the snails will be heading for their condo unit with plentiful of algae.
I actually have those magnet glass cleaner, don't know if it works.
Plus so far, I didn't spoil any of their eggs on the existing tank, o may be lucky to get a boys school.
By the way, Mine are horned nerite snail
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I have cleaners like yamato, sae, oto, Cory, but favorite is still snails as they are so damn dedicated.
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keeping track of white eggs !
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Is ramshorn snails, a pest or Savior
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A video on clean up crew
http://youtu.be/AYGHAqEwyXI
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Mating season or are they trying eat each other LOL
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Could be mating.. or just cleaning algae on each other's shells.
Some people use this observation to help narrow down which could be male and which could be female... presumably the one on top is male. Not 100% confirmed though.
Usually when i see this, i usually separate the "male" one to another tank or use a fine tip permanent marker to place a small dot on the shell, help to keep track of it for further ID.
Thanks UA for the tips ! Last night my Oto tried to "clean up" one f the snail shell too. I was laughing for a while LOL
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Yeah... snail shells are actually a good place for algae to grow on, its kinda like hardscape and always exposed to light.
Snail shells do need to be cleaned by other snails or algae eaters from time to time, otherwise you'll start getting snails with "don king" hairstyles crawling about...
Source: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?...9100-don-king/
Looks cool though.
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I don't mind having that crawling around in my tank !
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Look like the crew is having a meeting hahaImageUploadedByTapatalk1416491112.006642.jpg
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