WHY?

The next challenge comes when you feed the velligers (larva). You'll be lucky if you manage to get them to snail stage using microalgae or planktons. I have nerites here the size of newborn brigs that hitchhiked among my collection of nerites from a local river.
 
You know, now that Lupin mentioned it, I'm a bit surprised Theodoxus fluviatilis isn't more widespread in the hobby. If I'm not mistaken, they hatch as mini-snails rather than larvae - that takes a lot of work out of breeding them compared to other Nerites.
 
I'll dig the applesnail.net threads later for some details. I might be wrong with the larva facts. I just realized not all nerites could possibly breed like that which means we may have hope of avoiding too much exploitation of wild nerites.:D
 
Yadokari said:
They'd be more popular if people knew about them. Many people want snails and they go out buying them, thinking they'll eat algae. Unfortunately, they think all snails eat algae, therefore, buying apple snails. If people were educated about nerites and that they're the TRUE algae eating snail, then their popularity would increase dramatically.

And also, as mentioned in an earlier post, most people associate nerites to saltwater.
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Or people associate all snails with a dirty tank and want the poor creatures gone because they are "pests"

We all know better ;)
 
Nearly all of the fish stores in the area I like to go have nerites, whether there be 3 in a large tank or 200 in a 20 gallon...
 
I have never ever seen a nerite in the store... See them on here all the time- but never in a store.

But in my years as a kid in England keeping fish... never saw them.
As my years as a teen in the US keepnig fish- never saw them.

Went a decade + before keeping fish again- but now I am and I've been actively looking in all the fish stores I see the last few months to see what people have in stock...

... STILL never seen a Nerite for sale (not in a FW tank anyway... I usually bypass the Marine sections so that I don't get tempted to get a marine setup).

Not that selection of most things is good in South Carolina- but Nerites seem absent. Mystery Snails and Rams seem by far the most common snails for sale in stores.


As much as I'd love a couple of Nerites. Averaging at $4 each on here- then add $7 or $8 for shipping makes for pretty expensive snails! (that more than likely won't even breed for me).
 
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