Norbert The Horned Nerite

[saltynay]

Got a new snail his horns are a bit damaged but I still think he is brilliant, also in the pic are the cherries from drewry ( most of them have blue eyes ) :

Jack must be in every photo I swear he loves the camera more with each day.

On a sadder note I think my ADF ate one of the black corys drewry sent me as one is magically missing this morn and they are too large for jack to eat and he showed no interest in guppy fry after a couple of weeks. At 1.5cm and super curious I think an ADF might of taken it.

 

[Jonty]

On a sadder note I think my ADF ate one of the black corys drewry sent me as one is magically missing this morn and they are too large for jack to eat and he showed no interest in guppy fry after a couple of weeks. At 1.5cm and super curious I think an ADF might of taken it.

Are you sure its an ADF and not an ACF? My ADFs are really docile, currently in with some 3 day old fry. Maybe it was sucked into the filter?

 

[Littlemonkey]

I think he/she is lovely, what type is it?

 

[~T~]

On a sadder note I think my ADF ate one of the black corys drewry sent me as one is magically missing this morn and they are too large for jack to eat and he showed no interest in guppy fry after a couple of weeks. At 1.5cm and super curious I think an ADF might of taken it.

Are you sure its an ADF and not an ACF? My ADFs are really docile, currently in with some 3 day old fry. Maybe it was sucked into the filter?

Yeh I would be more inclined to blame the betta. I would be surprised if it doesnt much its way through all those cherry shrimp too.

 

[ellena]

How big are your ADF?! Anything they could eat would be easy pickings for a betta-they're much bigger. I agree with Jonty, maybe you have clawed frogs?

 

[saltynay]

How big are your ADF?! Anything they could eat would be easy pickings for a betta-they're much bigger. I agree with Jonty, maybe you have clawed frogs?

defo not ACF I don't just give advice without knowing what I am talking about Just found out my ADF eat my cherries quite regularly greedy bstards, oh well cycle of life and all...

 

[hotpink143]

I've seen my ADF's eat my Molly fry with my own 2 eyes! Lol.

 

[bae1994]

my horned nerite was like 7mm big now hes like 2cm

 

[saltynay]

My 3 are between 8-13mm Norbert is the largest as I have had him the longest, his horns are quite damaged though which is a real shame.

 

[bae1994]

yeah is a shame are these also called bee snails as thats what mine was labelled as

 

[saltynay]

Yeah sometimes called bee nerites. The horns are obviously the most distinctive feature, I think I read somewhere that their horns continue to grow even once they have reached full size but that might just be my imagination.

 

[mixmaster jay]

i like them saltynay look pretty cool

 

[bae1994]

yeah mine is always around

 

[saltynay]

i like them saltynay look pretty cool

Would this nerite be ok with a small turtle like a mississippi map turtle or red eared slider (probably got both of those names wrong) due to the horns acting as defense?

 

[mixmaster jay]

no mate they would rip it apart they love eating snails it helps with there beaks too i did have some 2cm horns but they soon went lol at least you have spelt mississippi right lol red eared sliders get quite big too females abot 12/15" ours was 13" and males 9" fully grown and maps females roughlt 10" and males around 6"