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100+ Baby Pearl Pink Ramshorn Snails
$ 17.41
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Description
100+ Pearl Pink Ramshorn SnailsRamshorn snails
are extremely helpful in keeping your tank clean and healthy. Although most species are harmless, certain species of snails and slugs damage crops by feeding on roots. However, your aquatic plants are safe from these Ramshorn Snails! They most decaying plants, preferring algae, uneaten fish food, and dead fish.
Not only are they great for your aquarium, they also make great snacks for
Crabs, Puffers, Loaches, Lobsters, Turtles (mines loves 'em!) and even Crayfishes.
These cute little snails even make great warning systems! If you ever see most of your Ramshorns hanging around the waterline of your tank, it means the water's toxicity has reached dangerous levels and is time for change.
What does ramshorn snails eat?
The Ramshorn feeds on algae, dead fishes, dead plants as well as uneaten fish food. They also feed on carrots. You can try to reduce the number of Ramshorn snail present in the tank by putting some carrots into the tank. The snails will attack the carrots and you can manually remove both carrots and snails. The Ramshorn snail does not like the fresh carrot; they prefer to feed on aged or older carrots that have been submerged in the water for a longer period of time (3 to 4 days).
Which fish do eat Ramshorns?
The Ramshorn snail can also sometimes serve as food to your fish. If the fish are not well fed, they can feed on the smaller snails. Although not all kinds of fishes feed on the ramshorn snail, the most common ones that do includes the angel fish, gourami, puffer fish and loaches.
Do ramshorns need aerated tank?
Another attempt to remove these Ramshorn snails from the tank is by allowing the tank to be poorly aerated. The snails require a good aeration; a poorly aerated tank will have the snails coming to the surface of the tank. This will avail the aquarist the opportunity to remove the snails manually.
Advantages
The Ramshorn snail can be advantageous as well. The advantages include the following:
1. They help to avoid catastrophe that might arise form a dead fish in the tank. Small size fishes whose death might not be easily noticed by the aquarist can be easily eaten up by the snails. This helps sanitize the tank.
2. It serves as a check to determine if the water quality in the aquarium. A tank that contains ramshorn snail will have the snail coming to the top if the water quality system is poor. If this is the case, it maybe a good time to do a big water change (immediately).
3. Algae do not always do much good for fishes, however the ramshorn snaisl can feed on the algae.
Lifespan
The ramshorn do not live forever; within a year, their lifespan comes to an end. However, there are some that could live for more than two years.