My (mostly) Invert Tank

[n3ont3tra]

I got all the snails I could see and fed them to the kuhlies. They were eaten. I watched them eat it and fed the rest of the fish and then I went back to feed the 10g and there was just as many snails still in there.

 

[GoldLenny]

I would say move the kuhlis to your infested tank but they might eat the good snails too. Your only choice is to keep taking about 10 snails a day to feed to your kuhlis and eventually you'll get them all.

 

[14gtr14]

As for nerite snails, only some species can live in freshwater long-term, and they will breed in freshwater too. But the eggs need to hatch in brackish water for the babies to survive...I don't even know if they will hatch in freshwater.

there are many different "nerite" snails. Some brackish. Some coastal (as in can survive periods in and out of water). Some purely freshwater these live happily, breed happily and babies survive happily in freshwater.

In fact i'm sure there are some on ebay just now. (maybe snailshop or gogosnails or whatever)

 

[three-fingers]

The ones on ebay are from snail shop, and the babies will not survive in freshwater .
Gogosnails doesn't sell ones that can produce off spring that survive in freshwater either.

The nerite snails we sell at Snail Shop are true freshwater nerites. Although they may be able to withstand short periods of time in brackish water, this is not recommended.
Nerites have a very complex breeding cycle. This complexity means that these snails will not reproduce in the home aquarium.

Basically, with the snails they are selling now, adults naturally live their full lives in freshwater.
Though gogosnails and snailshop sell a few different species, so that may not be the case for all of them.
When they say 'complex', they mean the babies that hatch from the eggs need brackish water, just like amano shrimp the baby nerites are carried downstream after hatching.
To simulate this, you can just put the eggs in a tank of brackish water though.

It's likely that there are species of 'nerite' snails that can fully reproduce in freshwater, but nowhere seems to sell them, and I don't know of any specific species that can.

 

[n3ont3tra]

To be honest I don't really care what kind of snails I have, unless their apple snails 'cause I love them...

I'm gonna try the apple snails and if it doesn't work I'll get 'em all eventually by plucking them out.

 

[14gtr14]

The ones on ebay are from snail shop, and the babies will not survive in freshwater .
Gogosnails doesn't sell ones that can produce off spring that survive in freshwater either.

The nerite snails we sell at Snail Shop are true freshwater nerites. Although they may be able to withstand short periods of time in brackish water, this is not recommended.
Nerites have a very complex breeding cycle. This complexity means that these snails will not reproduce in the home aquarium.

Basically, with the snails they are selling now, adults naturally live their full lives in freshwater.
Though gogosnails and snailshop sell a few different species, so that may not be the case for all of them.
When they say 'complex', they mean the babies that hatch from the eggs need brackish water, just like amano shrimp the baby nerites are carried downstream after hatching.
To simulate this, you can just put the eggs in a tank of brackish water though.

It's likely that there are species of 'nerite' snails that can fully reproduce in freshwater, but nowhere seems to sell them, and I don't know of any specific species that can.

i'm sure someone posted an article on here about "true" freshwater nerites. Ye i read about the cycle before, but i think some do live and breed in freshwater. There was a guy on here from Asia somewhere (malaysia kinda sticks) that had nerites that were breeding and survivng in his aquaria...so hopefully there are a few species for sale in the hobby here

thanks 3fingers