Which Snail is BEST at Removing Algae.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Today we see which snail is best at cleaning a tank with LOTS algae. We have a mystery snail and a nerite snail. These two snails are very popular in the fish keeping hobby so we thought we'd test to see which one is the best at cleaning the tank.
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Lol I have 2 nerites and one would leave the filter. He kept moving but he just kept exploring the filter. I later named him Phil (filter-fil-Phil). I couldn’t think of a name for the other one so I call him “not Phil”
LOL!
Sounds like the same logic you used to name your rabbit
I love those names 🤣
Classic Ricky
😂😂😂😂😂😂
We love our nerite snail, Twinkle. He has been amazing at keeping our tank algae free, and our female betta, Night Sky, leaves him alone. :)
Hey hello , does your twinkle produce too much poop to cause worry in your plantation tank, coz am about to set a rank and thought of algae eating squads. Thank you
@@dwarageshc7837 No, but he is in a 5.5 gallon moderately planted tank with only a betta fish. :)
@@debbievalioukevitch5798 have you noticed some excess snail poop??
Only with your saying I'll buy a 🐌
I recently got nerites for the first time and I’m in love. I will never have a tank without them again, they are such good workers.
Just got some zebra nerites today my catfish and my bettas love them
My betta loves his nirites, sometimes when they're at the top of the tank he'll rest on a floating plant right next to them like they're cuddling almost. I think the snails are his fav because they move slow and are chill like him.
Male bettas are chill?
@@himlolo obviously, not when with other bettas or with things that move faster than them. Had some neon tetra’s for a day before mine ate them, I had a snail in there and he laid on its shell and didn’t attack him at all.
@@himlolo Long fins tend to be because their fins don't allow them to move naturally. Plakats tend to be very active.
@@user-qo6il9vg3nwow. My male Betta is housed with 8 neons and 2 ghost shrimp and he loves to chase the tetras occasionally but even when given the opportunity he never tries to actually eat them. He never bothers the shrimp but he occasionally checks up on them
I love how healthy all of your snails look! They’re so beautiful
Forget the snails, I am in love with your voice! Very pleasant to the ear, and very comprehensive to the heart! 👌
I created a snail food / "snello" for my Nerites that 2 out of 3 actually like and will eat like little piggies! It's made from organic Spirulina Powder, organic Agar Powder and powdered calcium carbonate.
When I first got my Nerite snails I had almost no algae in my tank and didn't realize that they wouldn't eat other foods. Out of desperation I created an organic, veggie snello that they actually LOVED and wolfed down in a matter of a couple of hours! It was a huge relief because they hadn't eaten for about a week and I was worried they would starve to death! I keep extra snello on hand in my freezer in case I ever need to transfer them to a new tank that doesn't have algae yet and I still give it to them from time to time to make sure they get enough calcium for their shells.
BTW... they seem to eat the snello best when it's smeared onto a piece of driftwood or rock in the tank.
Thanks for the great info! How much of each ingredient do you use?
How did you get them to eat other food? I wish my nerite ate some normal food because its scary not knowing whether he has enough food or not. But I have him with ramhorn snails and so he can always eat if he wants to.
tag. Thank you!!!!
The nerite snail is like an aquatic roomba 😊
Lol…!
Totally agree! I absolutely love nerites. They're cute, they don't have population explosions, and they are so good at keeping the algae in check. I never thought I'd like snails as much as I do but after the first tiger nerite I got (I named her Zoomy), I can't imagine a tank without one. I now have three horned nerites that I rotate through my various tanks as needed. That purple mystery snail is very lovely though!
This video helped convince me to get two nerites tomorrow. I'm having an algae problem on my walls and this helped answer my question. Thanks so much!
Did you quarantine it?
I came to the same conclusions you did :)
I did try ramshorns and their similar friend trumpet snails, both really explode in population and are more of a bother than a help unless you're fine with hundreds of the buggers that you can't easily get rid of. I found the trumpets to be even worse than the ramshorns in this respect. And I think the ramshorns are a little cuter. They got into my filter and everywhere, and they are super survivors.
I love mystery snails as a main pet. They have a lot of personality and are endearing. One other thing to think about is some fish may pick on them and bite their antennae. They do grow back, but that makes the mystery snail more shy. It's just fun to see them trucking around waving their antennae. It's also fun to feed them veggies and other things. I'm glad you mentioned they need high calcium. I used a partial shell substrate and would put in some cuttlebone and that seemed good for mine.
Nerite snails are pretty but stay small. They are just efficient tank cleaners that you may not see a lot of. I think keeping them with mystery snails is good since mystery snails are haphazard eaters. The little white eggs can be slightly annoying but it's not the worst. I am glad they actually don't easily successfully breed or they could be a problem snail too. If you only have 1-2 nerites I think that is enough to get the job done and they don't lay that many eggs.
One other important point is the snails may decide to vacate the tank if you have any openings or they can push a lightweight lid. I had this problem with mystery snails- mine wandered my room several times before I figured out how to close the hole around the filter. Fortunately it's easy to follow their slime trail and they generally can survive being out for a little while. My friend said her nerites also escaped but mine stayed put.
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I bought two Assassin snails 🐌 for my 20 gallon tank.
My 5 gallon was covered. I had a mystery snail, a black devil, a pond snail, and a dozen MTS for a month with no change. I added one nerite and it was almost entirely gone in about 4 days.
that coconut house so adorable 4:13
I’ve got a ton of nerite snails in my tanks. I love them. 😝
I had never seen algae on my tanks' walls until I had a Mystery Snail only tank. They do eat and poop like crazy: their snello, algae wafers, blanched veggies, my plants (big time), but they are definitely above munching on glass algae.
The other tanks (with nerites in) were always spotless.
This video was so dope I love snails now
I'm gonna get a nerite this weekend. Thanks for the video.
I have 2 nirates tigers and a mystery, had them for a month now, good clean up crew
I'm totally into snails too! and the winner of the experiment is the nerites! I have a few questions but I'll just have to research them. thanks for the video.
Thank you!
Hopefully, my LFS has some Nerites in stock tomorrow
🙏
I have two 33 Gallon tanks and I bought 2 nerite snails for each, 1 red and one yellow/black horned and 1 yellow black/zebra and another yellow/black horned and put them in my tanks. One tank had a coconut hut that was completely green on top and in 3 days was back to spotless brown. Great algae eaters, one tank had a fake plant with algae on it and the others are eating that, cleaning up leafs every day.
My Nerite snails are sluggish and one has a crack in in shell. Something that I notice between the two species is you can see the Mystery snail out and about while the shell of the Nerite you are lucky to catch them on the go and you never even see pneumostome , breathing tube. My substrate is lightly planted and is made of peatmoss and sand. They can spend all day just sitting in it without movement. I really do enjoy the progress of both. Thank you for sharing the video. 😁
Between the cherry shrimp and the nerites I added, they destroyed a huge hair algae bloom in less than a week. Incredible.
How many of each did you add, to how big of a tank?
@@wingspantt I have about 15 cherry shrimp and 5 snails in my 15 gallon mini. In my 45 i have about 12-15 nerites and they do a good job.
In my experience, mystery snails are the best and fastest, but nerite snails definitely enjoy the algae more!
Great experiment! I learned something new. Btw, i ONLY have zebra nerite snails & lots of the eggs have hatched! They grow slow (which i like) but what do great is the these tiny babies teach leaves them bigger snails can’t!
I’ve always loved nerite snails. I’ve had many for 2+ years every time I purchase one. I’ve had them in groups of up to 6 and I love how much they clean! I don’t completely rely on them but they are a little bonus. I was rooting for the nerites from the beginning 😅😉😄
I love my nerite snails. I have a tiger and zebra. I’ve only had them for 2 months.
At least your little pea puffers won’t go hungry when you have a breeding colony of rams horn snails 🐌
Our Amazon Puffers have all the snails they could ever eat!
I'm glad you do highlighting about WASTE !! 🙂
Just great. I bought 3 Mystery snails yesterday and now I found this video. Looks like I made a big mistake.
Holy crap thank you. Finally some decent science on TH-cam!
thanks so much, i got 3 nerites and they really cleaned all in 2/3 days, one moved a rock from the sand o.O that's very strong
I’m good with algae it’s just with tetras I need a cleanup crew for food. So this was really helpful!! Thank you
I love nerve snails alot
Awesome comparison video, This will surely help people get what they need done.
Would be interested to see a larger experiment with more species, including pest species and newer rarer species. Apple/mystery, blueberry, nerite, ramshorn, dwarf ramshorn, bladder, pond, trumpet, and of course the inexplicably hated freshwater limpet.
I need one of those giant mystery snails.. I love them :)
My nerite snail is my favourite. i got a couple of mystery snails and didn’t know how big they would get. The mystery snails also mash food around and kinda pigs, their pop is a lot too. The nerite snail is a bit under the radar and it’s poop isn’t very bit at all. The nerite just does it’s thing and keeps things pretty clean. I have soft water and have had to put cuttle bone in the water because the nerite got a bit of a raggy shell. I also like that it stays under it’s shell and I can see it’s little mouth on the glass. A nice, quiet and efficient snail.
I only had 1fish for a few weeks and it got sick and died. Wasn’t sure I did something or the fish was ill when I got it. Never got another one. I’m learning a lot watching these videos. Thank you
I will say this. I have planted tanks. I keep snails in all of them. I have rams, Malaysians, a wild type of rams horn, another type of snails am from the wild as well. They are only in 2 of my tanks. They a adorable and do a great job in my shrimp tank. I keep neurites snails as well, and also mystery snails. Not one tank has all of these in them. I have 20 active tanks and they all different snails that suit tge needs of the tank. I also keep scuds as well. They came from a friend on some plants he gave me. They have worked wonders in some of my planted tanks. They do a good job along with Malaysian snails at turning up the sand so the roots of plants do not get compacted.
The nerve of some snails. 😂👌🏻 Great video Sheila.
I enjoyed watching the video. Thanks for posting. We don't have any Mystery Snails but we have several types of Nerites and they're awesome algae eaters. We have some Bladder Snails and they do very good cleanup work as well.
Thank you so much for this information!!! I have a very large Mystery and will definitely try the other now.
My apple snails ,I have two larger ones and a small one, love green beans,broad beans, cucumber, sweet corn, garden peas, watercress, cabbage and they get snail pellet food and cuttle bone:)
Apart from them I have four small clams who filter and detritus worms who help eat the waste.
The Nerite snails are much better in eating algae in any aquarium! 🌷🌿
Awesome experiment, thank you!
This is really informative!!! :)
Hello Sheila. I hope you and your family are staying positive and well. This video was very informative in selecting Mystery snails or nerite snails to clean the tanks glass with Algae! This will help me to decide which snails to purchase to clean my tanks with algae!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Are you still selling snails on your website?
Nerite snails are the best without a doubt. Something to keep in mind tho. While Nerites cant breed in fresh water they do lay eggs especially on wood which can be extremely hard to remove. Other thing to know about Nerites, they cannot right themselves like other snails. This becomes a bigger problem as they get bigger. When adding them to your tank be sure to set them upright on the substrate. Occasionally they may get knocked off the glass by fish and can land upside down where they may end up stuck like that and starve to death if not found and righted first.
I have 6 nerite in my pond I'm glad to see that they grow so much.
Nerite snails are kinda cute. Mine love to perch atop the output of a sponge filter. No issues in water quality when checked, but they just loved doing that. Once they've enjoyed enough of a cool breeze, they snail along back into the water.
The small species of snails which hitchhike with plants are the very best at getting your tank looking brand new in a very short amount of time. Then as long as you don't overfeed, their population should remain manageable....even rising and falling again as food sources build than deplete. Thats the definition of balance.
That's more or less what I thought. The pity is that breeding nerites is a bit tricky.
Hello, I've had nerite snails for over a year, mine LOVE green spot algae. I just bought my first mystery snail today hoping it would do as nice of a job. After watching your video, I'm regretting getting it a bit. 😑 I guess it will just be an additional aquatic pet.
How is your mystery snail doing? I bought one thinking it could be an algae preventative and just fell in love with him. LOL! Luckily, it seems I don't have too much trouble with algae in my one tank. The other has a little bit of spot algae that I'll have to clean because I think it's the type that like nothing eats. LOL!
@@JessRansdellSmith i fell in love with mine, too. I have 4 of them now-- fascinating little animals!
@@TarasTankFriends I'm glad they turned you around! They are so entertaining to watch. They move a lot quicker than you'd think they would! I love my two and have been thinking of getting more myself...but mine just laid her second egg clutch so I have a feeling I'll be swimming in them soon. Haha!
i have tanks and i clean them every week with scrubs to remove algaes.. but when i both nerite snails.. it has been 2 months no need for scrubings.. even my fish houses are shiny clean.. very thankful to my hardworking nerites
Nerite are not only great at eating algae, they are also great at crawling out of the tank on to the floor. I have a sealed tank now and I am worried about gas exchange.
Oooh, that's exactly what I don't want to happend. Definitely sticking with my mystery snail, thank you!
aw, I wanted to see which one of the "pest snails" could clean it the best, I honestly dont mind them and they are great scavengers, and the population is easy to control as long as you control the food. Snails like the bladder snail, malaysian trumpet, and the ramshorn
Yes but more snails equals more poop and ammonia.
Nerites for the win! Great experiment with good visual results 💕
Thanks, this was an interesting video to make.
I had a zebra nerite snail I my tank and he did.a great at keeping it clean I just didn't like the little white eggs left on my driftwood.
The panda corys kept distracting me lmao especially when I noticed one who swam above middle of the tank-- it surprised me hahaha
A lot of Corys are "glass climbers" they can actually breathe air from the surface like a betta, so sometimes it's because the filtration is too low, but often once Corys are really comfortable in their tanks they just do this for fun. It's like a little ride for them. If you see them doing it a whole lot, disease may be sinking in...but other than that it's basically puppies running laps around the yard
@@krisgaines3661 Say what would be the best Cory to begin first? I'm in between albino and panda Cory. What can you suggest or advice regarding bout it??
@@joelpablo8239 have sandy substrate, make sure to take note of their behavior and notice when they become abnormal, and other than that its just general fish advice. I'd say it doesn't really matter much,albino corys are generally a tiny bit bigger.
I was looking for this topic. Thank you for sharing your research.
RAMSHORN SNAIL GANG!!!
I have spot algae (INCREDIBLY HARD TO CLEAN) and my ramshorns just removed it like nothing
Thanks for the content. I will purchase a few merits snails, based on your experiment and results.
This is a very helpful video hey! really impressed!
This was really helpfull, thanks!
I made an entire 30 liters Aquarium just for ramshorn snails.
I love this adorable little fast breeding things.
Hate the eggs, but nerites are the way to go. I consider a mystery snail more of decoration.
Escaping...that's also a big thing to think about.. large mystery snails are good at that...my large one got out my larger tank I was lucky to find it...I placed it short term in a 3.5 with a few old male guppies and he seems really happy...he sleeps in a small flower pot...and eats Cory cat food and leafy overs...my nerite snails who are so old now are fine if you leave them space to get out the water...they like to get away from my guppies who feed off the algae on the shells...
Thanks for the info and comparison. I need a nerite for algae in a Betta tank, thanks again!
All nerites aren't created equal. I have two tiger nerites that barely do anything. I have two horned nerites who are a non-stop glass cleaning crew.
I figured that they take break from eating sometimes, i used to have a lazy snail who doesnt move at all until the other one that eating algae all day long died, he took over and star working for some reason, i think when they full they are not very active
My nerites are all slackers so I got a bristle nose place for my 20 gallon and it only took him 2 days to fully clean the tank
I have 7 nerite snails, but one big zebra nerite is the laziest thing. All the others are quite active and eat a lot of algae.
You’re definitely right about the wood, my narrite nails are always cleaning and moving the Cholla wood around. Good luck on trying to Aqua scape with that because wherever you put it they’re going to twist it and roll it and move it. I love your mystery snails, the purple is amazing.
When I got my narrates nails they had little white spots on them, my KHNGHR up there enough for guppies and I put a few pieces of crushed coral in the bottom but they don’t seem to play with it, what do you give them to fix that or is that just always going to be white now?
Are use a combination of Malaysian trumpet snails because they turn over the substrate really well and keep it clean but they do breed like crazy so beware and the Nerites take care of everything else I found it to be the perfect combination
I have a nerite and a mystery snail in my 20 long neocardinia shrimp tank…
The nerite hasn’t left the mopani wood hardscape since the day it was introduced 2 weeks ago, I can see little trails where it’s been eating my expensive wood decoration… it has t touched the algae, hasn’t cruised the glass, it’s just been eating the mopani wood.
My mystery snail has been everywhere in the tank, on the glass, on the hardscape, climbing the plants it’s capable of climbing, I’ve even seen it snacking on the duckweed, it’s eaten more actual greenery in the five days it’s been in the tank than the nerite has touched in two weeks, it leaves my healthy plants alone, and only goes after duckweed and dying leaves
My red ramshorns eat more algae than the stupid nerite…
Nice video, I use Ramshorn Snails and Malaysian Trumpet Snails to keep my tanks clean! I even have a time lapse of them crawling around the plants and glass eating the algae!
Great video thank you
My mystery diet is peas, zucchini, beans with added eggshells and cuddle bone, frozen and I add a chunk before she wakes up. My betta likes the peas too.
The main drawback of Nerites, although they are the best algae eater snails, is the EGGS. It's so hard to ensure you only have male snails, so the eggs will eventually be EVERYWHERE. The females will even produce hundreds of eggs without a male present...
Luckily they need special conditions to hatch. Have you considered getting shrimp or freshwater crabs to clean up the eggs? Crawfish may even do the job but that’s a big commitment
@@Colin.71 My shrimp all ignore the eggs 😭. I haven’t tried crabs, I’ll look into it, thanks.
frankly i have a bunch of pestsnails in my aquarium and its absolutely spotless
Good job! Thanks for this video
I love mystery snails but my angelfish kept trying to nip his antenna thinking it was a worm so I got narite and they did wonderfully
Angel fish are kinda dicks in general lmao
Love nerites. I don’t mind the eggs as they’re easy to clean up.
Wow what a difference!
Apple snails are sill great to but they need to be big or 2 apple snails but I never had nerite
Just tossed some nerrite snails into my tanks, but I have issues with trumpet snails.
algea gone, but the eggs are coming. Be careful.
@YYpang no but when the drift wood is full of the white eggs, it looks ugly to me. That's the reason I get ride of all the snails.
@YYpang no - they need brackish water to hatch
My zebra lays eggs everywhere, but the black mollies, shrimp and the pleco will eat the eggs.
Actually zebra snail's are good for the walls. But tiger snail's are good for cleaning the plants
Alexx 2108z I have a fully planted 40 gallon breeder. I have 4 zebra snail’s now. My glass looks amazing but plants are getting a little bit of hair algae. Would 1-2 tigers help with that?
@@bstock1343 well, for me yes!
Alexx 2108z they are the exact same species of snail. They just have a different shell pattern.
I guess I have been lucky cause I have three nerite snails in my 29 gallon and I have never seen white eggs. It's my guppie tank and they do a great job with the algae.
I just got a nerite 3 days ago and as of yesterday and today he’s in his shell and won’t come out… so may him back and get a mystery instead
My gold mystery snail does fine an his big lil snails are kool too but the bigger one are kooler
Nerites eat a lot of algae because in the sea where they live has high amounts of calcium which the shells absorb.
I think your videos are great and very informative!
My mystery snail (Sally) is amazing at cleaning all types of alge off rocks in the tank, but doesn't do much with the glass.
I think mystery’s are the best but I also really like Nerite
I had a mystery snail in my betta tank that was very entertaining (who would have thought a snail could be entertaining?), and did a great job at eating the food that fell to the bottom. Unfortunately he died in about 6 months. At first I thought it was the low pH (6.5-6.8) that got him, but now I'm thinking it was diet. I did have a cuttlebone in the tank for calcium, but I never saw him actually eat any of the cuttlebone and it doesn't seem to have dissolved. I'd like to try again with another mystery snail; maybe I have to find another way to get it calcium. One interesting thing was that the mystery snail did move over the glass, but I never noticed algae disappearing as a result.
Brilliant - very informative - very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
THANK You!
I think Ramshorn is the top from my experience
You have such a lovely voice
I had 3 mystery snail in an algea infested tank and I kid you not, they cleaned that tank within a week it was crystal clean.
Will either of these snails survive in a tank with an 8 inch oscar?
Also, will either of them breed if solo in the tank?
Thanks