What are the different snails and what do they do?

[vetter]

I am looking for algae cleaning snails as well as detritus helping snails, but I do not know the different snails that I will need for my 12 gallon and what the different snails do. Also what other inverts do you recommend?

Thanks Dillon.

 

[EDGRAY]

Nassarius snail take care of the detritus and poo of your fish and aerate the LS
Nerite snail are great cleaners for your glass, rock & LS sometimes.
Astrea snails same as above but for sure they will clean the LS

those are the ones i recommend, like and own... there are other kind of snails that do the same but be rather bigger than the mentioned ones.

but blue leg hermits are better for leftovers.

 

[vetter]

thanks so much eddy, how much of these should I get for the 12 gallon nanocube deluxe?

 

[EDGRAY]

well IMO

2-4 small nassarius
3-5 big nassaius
3-6 Nerite
2-4 Cerite
3-5 blue leg hermits

but is really up to you cause everyone puts different amount of them in their tanks....HTH

 

[skipm]

Here is a pretty good list of snails and if you click on each one there is a description as to what it eats: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scat ... pCatId=526 . I would avoid the turbo snails due to their size and the fact they knock things over all of the time. I think that you should also avoid the cowries, abalones, and the conches because you will starve them in a nano. Just one more note to be aware of is that the bumble bee snails that look so neat are carnivores and not cleaners at all, I have seen some stores try to sell them as cleaners so I thought I should make a point of that.