Cleaning snails

[Tyler777]

Which snail will do a good cleaning on my tank but not spawn out of control. ?

Also do Apple Snails spawn like crazy ?

 

[FranciscoB]

Apple snails don’t spawn. Instead, female apple snails lay egg masses outside of the water, attached to surfaces (glass, wood, vegetation), from which babies crawl down or fall into the water. Normally in an aquarium reproduction is not frequent enough for anybody to be overrun by apple snails. (Much in contrast with most small types of snails). Sometimes not even egg mass laying since they are separate sexes and males & female snails are needed. Ponds and the wild are a completely different story, with apple snails being prolific and invasive.

 

[Tyler777]

Apple snails don’t spawn. Instead, female apple snails lay egg masses outside of the water, attached to surfaces (glass, wood, vegetation), from which babies crawl down or fall into the water. Normally in an aquarium reproduction is not frequent enough for anybody to be overrun by apple snails. (Much in contrast with most small types of snails). Sometimes not even egg mass laying since they are separate sexes and males & female snails are needed. Ponds and the wild are a completely different story, with apple snails being prolific and invasive.

Thank you

 

[Tyler777]

Thank you

Anybody has Apple Snails in your tanks ? Do they do a good job cleaning n getting rid of algae ?

 

[Essjay]

No creature eats every type of algae and there are some types of algae that nothing will eat.

What type of algae do you have? A photo would help to ID it.

 

[Fishfunn]

I dont think any snail will eat blue-green algae, which is not an algae but bacteria.