Feeding Nerite snails?

[Rocky998]

Wooooow just wow... I cant believe you'd even go there lol

It gets boring cooped up 24/7 in a confined space. Nice to have entertainment.

 

[Beastije]

Good to hear others have different experience with neritina feeding, might mean they won't starve necessarily, but again, they are super picky, could ignore it. Didn't want to provide false info, iris just what is widely assumed here.

For example I have two neritina in a large tank where I regularly feed algae wafers, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots and salad leaves/spinach leaves and I have so far never seen neritina eating any of that. MTS yes, other snails yes, neritina so far never. Might be they have enough to eat of what they prefer (algae).

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

...and I have so far never seen neritina eating any of that. MTS yes, other snails yes, neritina so far never. Might be they have enough to eat of what they prefer (algae).

Or they eat it at night.

 

[Beastije]

I have a lot of snails, today's cucumber slice was fully gone no traces left in 8 hours if they were carnivore it would be the slowest way to get rid of a body

 

[Rocky998]

Nice! I’ll have to see if some produce slows down my plant eating goldfish. Only tried spinach which they didn’t touch

ew! You may have a horror film in making there.

"When snails attack"

 

[LostBear]

I have a lot of snails, today's cucumber slice was fully gone no traces left in 8 hours if they were carnivore it would be the slowest way to get rid of a body

Thanks for the warning.

I usually go for the classic "roll them in a piece of carpet and dump them under the patio" method myself.

Oldie, but goodie.

 

[LostBear]

Good to hear others have different experience with neritina feeding, might mean they won't starve necessarily, but again, they are super picky, could ignore it. Didn't want to provide false info, iris just what is widely assumed here.

For example I have two neritina in a large tank where I regularly feed algae wafers, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots and salad leaves/spinach leaves and I have so far never seen neritina eating any of that. MTS yes, other snails yes, neritina so far never. Might be they have enough to eat of what they prefer (algae).

There is no algae or biofilm in my tank, as the snails have devoured it, so they are grateful for the veg (never tried carrot - it might be a nice change for them).

The armano shrimp like the green stuff, too.

 

[LostBear]

as in
Attack of The Killer Tomatoes, only scarier

Slimyier, definitely!

 

[LostBear]

Nope, someone will detect an unpleasant aroma & call the cops. Best to leave no traces & encourage rapid snail growth. Then they can battle The Killer Tomatoes
vs

We are blessed (cursed?) with rapid snail growth already.

I took 38 of the little buggers out of the tank yesterday and squashed them. 11 so far this morning.

I could hire them out as "hit" snails, I suppose . . .

 

[Beastije]

Getting rid of snails should never be done by obtaining more snails or chemicals. Just stop feeding the snails by overfeeding the fish, leaving dead bodies or decaying plants and so.
If snails don't have anything to eat, they die out. Snails are apart of a well balanced aquarium and in a well balanced one, they don't overbread.

Dont hate the snails, they just point out a problem. I wanted to even buy ramshorn's here, but those that have them hoard them, they are priceless

 

[LostBear]

What kind of snails are they again? I continue to have problems with red ramhorns foolishly purchased on eBay. The adults are gone, but little ones continue to appear. I thoroughly vacuumed the substrate, black sand, and may have to do it again. Removed and washed plants. None that I could see. Found a few inside the small Day of the Dead skulls.

There are hit snails! I saw assassin snails at the shop. Don’t know how effective they’d be on the baby buggers.

They are like a tiny ramshorn snail - brownish, flat. I did have a minor influx of bladder snails, too, but took them out and (luckily) must have managed to remove them before they started off laying. I rather like them, and keep them in a 4 gallon container in the garden.

These other snails look like the top ones on this site.

All About Pest Snails in the Planted Aquarium

Written by Tammy Law (@aquarist_tl) and Team Buce Plant There may have been a time when you bought or received live plants for your aquarium, and then immediately placed them into the tank once you arrived home. Several days or weeks later while you’re observing the tank, you spot a random...

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They look unsightly - it's like my plants and the glass have smallpox something, covered with these little lumps.

I was debating getting some Assassin snails (easily available here), but someone pointed out that I could end up with an assassin snail problem, and they would eat my beloved Nerites, which put me off.

 

[LostBear]

Getting rid of snails should never be done by obtaining more snails or chemicals. Just stop feeding the snails by overfeeding the fish, leaving dead bodies or decaying plants and so.
If snails don't have anything to eat, they die out. Snails are apart of a well balanced aquarium and in a well balanced one, they don't overbread.

Dont hate the snails, they just point out a problem. I wanted to even buy ramshorn's here, but those that have them hoard them, they are priceless

Have to admit - I'm probably an over-feeder. I like rams horns (the big ones), but these are just irritating little pests and there are dozens of them!

I have to have some surplus food, because I have two Nerites, and there is very little algae for them - also I have shrimp, so any surplus wafers will become snail food*

*HA! a joke - there are never any surplus wafers. Those shrimp land on them like Billy Bunter hitting the tuckshop after Lent! It's comical to watch them grabbing the wafers and scuttling off with them.

 

[LostBear]

Terrific link! The bladder snails & one other were cute little things.

Guy saying pest snails & eggs often on plants. Uh oh. I went on a plant spending spree last week. They should arrive any day. Don’t like his idea of dipping plants In diluted bleach. Will rise off & hope for the best.

Yes - I wondered about the bleach, too.

There was someone on here a few months ago looking for people to take some rabbit snails - they were gorgeous, but I thought I had enough in my tank at the moment. In retrospect, I wish I'd taken a few. They have lovely little faces.

 

[Rocky998]

Oh! They are cute!

never thought snails could be so adorable!

 

[Rocky998]

ikr? I even liked the fuchsia color of the red ramshorns little slimy bodies. They were more active than the nerites.

Super cool! I'm thinking of doing shrimps instead of snails cause they dont breed AS fast...