Malaysian trumpet snails
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These are great scavengers with a super hard shell. Once I place them in a tank I can never get rid of them. Next time around I wouldn't add them. Even cross contamination with nets from tank to tank has resulted in the pop up of new snails in tanks that never had them. Just fair warnings.
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Having had tanks with snails and no snails, there's pros and cons to both. If all you're looking to do is stir up the sand a bit, I probably wouldn't get snails. Like others mentioned; once you add them it can be hard to get rid of them, and to keep them from spreading to other tanks via nets, plants, filters and ornaments. I currently am using assassin snails in each tank to hopefully eradicate everything but the assassin snails. In a perfect world/tank, I'd have not added snails. My reason for adding them was the snails did a alright job on algae on the glass and they were pretty/interesting to watch. Now that all my tanks are overrun with them, and I have a breeding tank I want to keep snail-free but cannot, I regret getting them.
Loaches never totally eradicate the snail problem. Look in your filters, I bet there are a ton in there. I've tried the loaches, but they were not so effective. Green spot puffers worked well, but I had to remove all stock and the snails eventually came back. Once you have mts, you have them until the tanks dried out. IMO good permanent scavengers.
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MTS are sort of like duckweed... if someone has it then their more then happy to give you some.
Same thing I was thinking, never seen them at any of the LFS or chain stores (petco, petsmart) around here...
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I called Inland Aquatics, they told me $4...I suspect they mistake what I wanted for a different snail. I'm thinking of heading to inland aquatics to get some fish, if wife and kids don't go, you want to carpool up?
