Nerite snails-yay or nay?

[Sounguru]

Oh they will eat BBA I watched 15 Nerites clean a 62 gallon tank that was so covered in BBA that you couldn't see the back wall in a week. Suckers ruined my photo backdrop.

 

[Ponyta]

Ugh sorry, I meant BGA (cyanobacteria). Brain isn't working today.

 

[Lupin]

Hah! Some people couldn't believe my nerites ate BBA before because they said theirs never did.lol Lucky girl!:dance:

 

[Lupin]

Ugh sorry, I meant BGA (cyanobacteria). Brain isn't working today.

Eek! Really? I always thought nothing eats BGA but there was one record of a planorbid eating BGA and everything else ignored it.

 

[Ponyta]

Hmm..I'm not sure if it is eating BGA..but there are gaps in the BGA patch it was on..maybe it was eating algae that was mixed in :S
But there is something else I wanted to ask. Here's a pic of what I saw this morning:

Is that pink area a crack in its shell??
(the green stuff is poo by the way).

I'm gong to see if I can get some tums or something today..can I just add it directly to the tank or will it harm my betta?
:nilly:

 

[Kashta]

The tums will be fine for the betta. That's not really a crack in the shell, it's erosion on the trailing edge. Shows the shell was too thin... so it's good to boost the calcium as long as your water isn't real hard/high pH to begin with.

 

[Lupin]

Doesn't look like BGA to me. The BGA I had became a carpet on a gravel bed.

 

[bitbot]

I don't know if that photo is supposed to be showing the BGA.

 

[Ponyta]

Yeah, I took the pic to show the snail, not the BGA . Its not a carpet in the tank, just some on the sides. And I think I was wrong about it eating BGA... must be some mixed in green algae that it was after

We got some fruit flavored tums (hope that's ok?). How much and how often should I put them in? I dropped in 1/4 of a tablet for now.

 

[Lupin]

I just drop the whole tablet.lol One tablet per day is enough for me. Nerites don't like it but I love the mystery snails burying their faces into it. Nom nom nom...