View Full Version : Question About Acclimating Nerites
Hurley
12-21-2008, 8:18 AM
I mentioned to my LFS owner a couple weeks that I was interested in some Nerites for my planted tanks and he said I was his second customer to ask him if he had any for a freshwater planted tank. I guess there is another planted tank keeper in the area I have yet to meet!!! Anyway, yesterday I was in there and he came up and said he tired twice to aclimated some nerites from salt water the fresh water without any luck. He said he tried to do it over a couple days.
Has anyone here had luck aclimating nerite snails? How did you do it?
bushwhacker
12-21-2008, 11:52 AM
bunny i bought my nerites from msjinkzd acclimated em just like i would a fish and they are running around my 55 gallon planted tank as we speak
johndoughy
12-21-2008, 12:20 PM
I tried, mine didn't make it. :(
But, I have heard the best way to do it is drip-acclimation. They live in tidepools and are accustomed to the transfer from fresh to salt water. I'm not sure what happened to mine, I didn't quite know what I was doing. I'd set up a quarantine with some water from the tank they're in(as long as your fish store will give you enough tank water), and go slow and steady.
rocker92
12-21-2008, 12:23 PM
i agree that would be the best thing
good luck!!
vampie
12-21-2008, 1:57 PM
There are many species of Nerites, not all of them can live in freshwater. Trying to acclimate a saltwater one to freshwater will just kill it.
Arakkis
12-21-2008, 9:46 PM
Get a picture so it can be IDed. You may have gotten nerite tesselata which is totally saltwater
pik01
12-21-2008, 11:30 PM
I think we're talking about two different kinds of acclimation here. SW <-> FW acclimations, if they can even be done depending on the species, takes days to weeks if I'm not mistaken.
Acclimating a new arrival should take maybe 3 hours.
Hurley
12-22-2008, 8:33 AM
Nope no pictures. I don't have one, it was the LFS owner who was trying to do it for me. If there are different species then my guess that is the problem. He said he tried to take it from salt to fresh it over a couple days.
vampie
12-22-2008, 1:40 PM
Surely, someone along the way must've assumed all Nerites were the same.
Though now that I think back about it, I haven't heard of a lot of Nerites that can live in both freshwater and saltwater. Vitta usnea and Vitta virginea come to mind, but the former is already available in freshwater rather than salt, and the latter I haven't heard much of in recent years.
Arakkis
12-22-2008, 6:21 PM
You can get the latter but I haven't seen anyone with them acclimated to FW
Cuvier
12-25-2008, 10:38 AM
I've seen Neritina (Vittina) virginea occurring along with Neritina (Vittina) punctulata in freshwater streams of northeast Puerto Rico.
Arakkis
12-25-2008, 2:55 PM
I've seen Neritina (Vittina) virginea occurring along with Neritina (Vittina) punctulata in freshwater streams of northeast Puerto Rico.
Umm.. Neritina (Vittina) genus and sub family name belongs to the SE asian neritids. In the Americas the normal proper name is Vita spp.
Cuvier
12-25-2008, 3:29 PM
Umm.. Neritina (Vittina) genus and sub family name belongs to the SE asian neritids. In the Americas the normal proper name is Vita spp.
OK, thanks for the correction.
Diggslife
01-06-2011, 8:55 PM
Umm.. Neritina (Vittina) genus and sub family name belongs to the SE asian neritids. In the Americas the normal proper name is Vita spp.
Hi, I am getting ready for my first snails and trying to learn / retain nerite sub types. If you dont mind, you might know the answer based on your reply to this post.
Is Vita spp and Vittina Semiconica the same snail AND do many call them Red Spotted, Red Onion or Tire Track? Or do I have much, much, much more to learn? Also what does spp stand for, specifically.