Nerite Snails

[nurglespuss]

Hi there well, the plants are still doing their best to grow in my 17L Nano (~78F) but, some one of the plants came with some hair algae attached that is now doing very well (though the plant is also recovering).

Would a nerite snail be ok in this tank? they look to me like they do well with a decent flow.... and perhaps not so war a tank?

Any thoughts? LFS has a single zebra nerite for sale (quite large - so probably wouldn't live too long now)... But i don't want to put it somewhere it may suffer...

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

Nerite snails would probably be ok; I was told they'd do ok in a 'room temperature' tank as well as in a tropical tank (from a friend who is big into her snails - so she had no benefit by "mis-selling" me a snail as she wasn't selling it). Tank size should be fine for a singular snail too

 

[nurglespuss]

Excellent cheers

 

[nurglespuss]

Just to say the nerite is in, and was already very active, has made head way clearing up the hair algae

Hopefully his shell damage will clear up? he's about an inch long, so i don't know how long he will live for? (would definately pick up another one!)