Turbo Snails
Posted by Sarah on January 7, 2008
We took a trip to Grand Forks, ND yesterday to check out some pet stores, and buy some Turbo snails.
We ordered some turbo snails recently, but we ended up with astrea snails.
That’s the bad part about ordering stuff – you don’t always get what you want.
The astrea snails eat algae, but they also have a tendency to fall over and not be able to get back up – which leads to dead snails if you don’t find them fast enough, or if you aren’t able to reach them to pick them up.
The astrea snails have done ok at eathing the algae in the tank, but with 2 snails out of the 3 we bought left, we need some more algae eaters.
We decided to get two turbo snails, because I’m not sure how much they will eat, or how they will do in the tank.
Right now the turbo snails are about the size of my fist – and these aren’t even the biggest one we’ve seen.
I couldn’t find them at all this morning when I looked in the tank – I can’t imagine how 2 things that big can hide in the tank, but there are a lot of places we can’t see.
After I turned on the lights and waited a while I saw one of the turbo snails, and I’m sure the other one will show up.
What kind of snails do you have in your saltwater tank?
