|
|
|
|
|
#1
10-06-2012, 05:59 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
I like cerith more as they are good little workers. No flipping either.
__________________
206 gal tunze centre overflow star fire front illumina 260 Loudest part of my system would be the nagging sound I hear on a regular basis about how much time and money I spend on the tank. 
|
|
#2
10-06-2012, 06:47 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Ceriths are great all around , and astreas have been great for me too , both the regular and the spiny shelled . Turbos on the other hand i find a pain , mine have never been self righting and there bull dosers . I just had a turbo die in my frag tank and i dont know what it is about them but my god they smell terrible when there dead , and when my heater let go a while back my house smelled like snail stink for a week and a half .
|
|
#3
10-06-2012, 07:34 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
If they flip over I just let the hermits kill them for the new shells... I know that sounds super mean; but I cannot be bothered to be the snail police.
__________________
We don't leave the world to our children, we only borrow it from them.
|
|
#4
10-06-2012, 09:17 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Same here. There are a bunch of species that just probably shouldn't even be offered, the mortality is way too high, and their effectiveness at grazing is probably questionable at best. Trochus, turbos, and cerith are my favourites too. The downer with turbos though is still you buy 10 and you'll end up with 3-4 that make it. And even in my 300g-ish tank I can tell when a snail has kicked off, they put a spike on the bioload for sure.
__________________
-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
|
|
#5
10-07-2012, 03:01 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
I usually stick with Trochus Tony, unless there is a turbo sale close by. I still have a few I bought from Red Coral a couple years ago. The trochus seem to graze as well as any, are long lived and can flip themselves over.
__________________
Doug
|
|
#6
10-07-2012, 03:43 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Wow I found it the exact opposite. I had started out by buying 3 Trochus and 3 Astreas (not as initial CUC). I was flipping over each trochus at least twice a day, then ended up with them all being dead within a month. Astreas, I think I've flipped 2 total in the last 10 months since starting the tank, and I think both times I was the one that knocked them over. Ceriths again maybe 2 in the last 9 months. I've found my astreas to be great for algae, bought a few more last month because I love them so much.
Maybe I got stuck with the stupid trochus, but man I hated flipping those suckers over, never again!
|
|
#7
10-07-2012, 03:29 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Quote:
__________________
Doug
|
Hybrid Mode
