something I discovered about Nerites

SunshinePuppies

SunshinePuppies

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OK, don't laugh at me lol
I was just reading my new issue of AFI and it says in one sidebar that nerites can survive in freshwater for a time, but that they're a poor freshwater choice because they have to be in saltwater to breed! not brackish water....actual saltwater!
Just thought I'dshare(If you already knew it don't tell me! don't want to feel like a TOTAL idiot lol)
 
I know they have to breed in saltwater but I thought that they could live fine in fresh.
 
i think that they can. he just said that he read that they are a poor choice for freshwater because they have to have salt water to breed.
which, in my opinion, doesn't make them a poor choice at all ;)
 
It depends entirely on the species but most Nerites sold as freshwater will be completely fine in freshwater.
 
I won't say it....:rofl:

But because they can't breed in FW is one of the reasons that they are desirable to have in FW tanks. Now add the fact that they eat alage like there is no tomorrow and for a lot of people you have the perfect snail.

I say we find the guy who wrote the article and give him a swift wake up kick in the back side of his shell....:evil_lol:
 
It never hurts to pass along info you read.:) I wouldn't consider them a poor choice either! Now that I've seen them I want some! lol But.......I might have to set upa saltwater nano....just as a comparison thing. Maybe that'd be something interesting. compare how they do in saltwater as opposed to fresh?

not a guy BTW. lol
 
SunshinePuppies said:
It never hurts to pass along info you read.:) I wouldn't consider them a poor choice either! Now that I've seen them I want some! lol But.......I might have to set upa saltwater nano....just as a comparison thing. Maybe that'd be something interesting. compare how they do in saltwater as opposed to fresh?

not a guy BTW. lol
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No one said you were a guy...:silly:

The problem with the comparrision is most nerites you would get have already been climatized to pure FW and it will take a long time to convert back. Also a lot of the species are brackish in nature.

Breeding Nerites in a tanks is at this point as far as I have gathered darn near close to impossiable. There are a couple of people that have claimed they have done it but when pressed for details they can't give them or what they say can not be duplicated. Biggest problem in the volfger(?) stage, they require the smallest of food at this time and that is very hard to deliever in the amounts needed.

Msjinkd and I were gonna try to do it but we both have come to the conclusion that the time and effort right now is now worth the end results. If Nerites were becoming rare and hard to get I would be more motivated to do it, and may still just as a side experiment, but right now it is a back burner project.

There are some pure FW nerites that do breed in FW but I have not been able to get my hands on any ....
 
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