What snails are the best.

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I want to put some snails in my tank to help clean it and just add some interesting life in it. Anybody know of any good ones, also do they leave a trail of slime if they travel on the glass?
 
Apple Snails I LOVE mine... they have tons of personality tons...
They are so fun...
I have 3 check them out,
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95553
I got them from Pixie on this board if you are in Canada I would highly recommend her snails.. :)
Mine love veggies, shrimp pellets, spirulina discs, zuccini and anything else they can get their feet on.. ;)
I have noticed them loving each other lately too.. but no eggs, i'm not sure how that all works with apple snails anyway.. but I know they are easy to control as they lay their eggs above the water and you can just take them out or keep them if you like...
 
I would like to know this as well. If apple snails are heterosexual, then they may be the way to go in an attempt to control the population! But don't apple snails get HUGE?
 
I'm pretty sure you need a male and a female Apple snail to produce offspring.
I think they get to be the size of a ping pong ball when full grown.
MightyQueenPixie will hopefully jump on this thread and help answer a little more accurately..
 
you need two snails to make more snails, even though snails have both male and female organs.

i have a little tiny hitchhiker apple snail that i got with my schwartz's corydoras. he looked like a peice of gravel until he came out of his shell, and he hasnt grown alot and disappears and reappears frequently.
 
Apple Snails get ungodly huge almost the same size as a softball.
I have black, white, and gold mystery snails, and I think that they do a wonderful job at keeping the tank clean.
I've heard horror stories with Apple snails getting onto fish that sleep at the bottom of the tank, and sucking on them to death...
so I would try to stay away from them if you have smaller non agressive fish.
 
ive heard they can get to the size of a softball, and just like worms, even tho they are hermaphidites, you need 2 different snails to get more
 
poeticsky said:
Apple Snails get ungodly huge almost the same size as a softball.
I have black, white, and gold mystery snails, and I think that they do a wonderful job at keeping the tank clean.
I've heard horror stories with Apple snails getting onto fish that sleep at the bottom of the tank, and sucking on them to death...
so I would try to stay away from them if you have smaller non agressive fish.
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Aren't Mystery Snails the same thing as Apple Snails?
 
yeah.. they are... and I just did a little more research on them and I would suggest to not get them either.. haha, they get tennis ball size. but ranshorm (sp?) snails get up to 2 inches. and they do a good job at cleaning, but mainly only algea and uneaten fish food, and dead fish...
sorry about my uneducated reply earlier.
 
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But are ramshorns asexual? Can they reproduce alone? That was the major appeal of the apple snails.
 
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