Thousands of Baby snails

[wayner]

I have a snail explosion in my tank, tons of baby snails actually taking over everything, there all over the rock, glass, there everywhere, anyone expierence this in their tank?

[Joe Reefer]

Sounds like collonista snails (http://www.xtalworld.com/Aquarium/hitchfaq.htm).

[wayner]

Thanks for the link, I'l have to check out the markings on them when I get home, only snails I've ever added to my tank are astreas, turbos, & nassarious., could of come in with liverock though I guess.

These little guys have been around for a couple of months now, seems like the population is growing, there's so many, they look like a mat in some areas.

[Scavenger]

It does sound like collonista snails to me as well. My 110 has thousands I'm guessing. I find them very helpful in algae control. In fact, I'm down to 2 turbos, 1 astrea and a few cerinth and nassarius for stocked snails and I'm not having much issue with algae.

I think of them as my free midnight cleanup crew, as they mostly stay hidden during the day.

[danny zubot]

Hey Wayne, if you don't want them I'll take a few. My Pistol shrimp will love you for it.:biggrin: BTW, I'm in your neck of the woods now.

[wayner]

Danny:

Next water change I'll see if I can siphon out a whack of them, I'll pm you to pick up.

[Snappy]

Wayne I have them too and they spawn like crazy. They are a bit of a nuisance when they get bigger. They force themselves into places to hide and knock a lot of stuff over, but other than that they eat a lot of algae.

[DanG]

I've had the same thing with cerith snails, I bought 2 of them, now have several hundred of them covering the glass and in the sand bed.

[wayner]

There clogging up the powerheads.