Hi all,
Other aquarium snails are either live bearing (viviparous) like MTS (Melanoides spp.) and Rabbit Snails (Tylomelania) or lay small eggs in a gelatinous surround like Red Ramshorn (Planorbis rubrum) or Tadpole snails (Physella acuta).
People like Nerites because they do a good job (in hard water) on hardscape and they don't proliferate (the eggs need brackish water to develop). The Sulawesi snails need specialised conditions, but the other species mentioned will survive in much softer water and are "self-sustaining".
cheers Darrel
It is only really Nerite snails that produce the persistent white egg cases.Any recomendations on snails and nerite snail eggs like are they hard to remove and do they end up everywere ? I would only want a couple.
Other aquarium snails are either live bearing (viviparous) like MTS (Melanoides spp.) and Rabbit Snails (Tylomelania) or lay small eggs in a gelatinous surround like Red Ramshorn (Planorbis rubrum) or Tadpole snails (Physella acuta).
People like Nerites because they do a good job (in hard water) on hardscape and they don't proliferate (the eggs need brackish water to develop). The Sulawesi snails need specialised conditions, but the other species mentioned will survive in much softer water and are "self-sustaining".
cheers Darrel