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Originally Posted by g10scout
Depends on the species of the snails in your tank. Don't keep too many snails.
Usually we keep apple snails and ramshorn snails to control algae growth.
Those snails attached in newly bought plants are usually pest snails. In that case it is ok to keep only 1 large pest snail.
I have a nano tank to breed ramshorn snails. I find that even ramshorn snails prefer to eat certain plant matter than algae in another 2 feet planted tank.
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haha. not true about getting pesky snails all the time! yes, they're more likely to be attached to plants you buy, but i once bought a few pots of blyxa japonica from polyart, and to my delight, it came with some apple snail eggs which hatched, a full grown malayan snail, and a baby ramshorn! LOL!
but i think i'll remove the apple snails before they start to breed cos i had one that couldn't resist chewing away my vallisneria.
