Summer hits and tank maintenance slides. It happens every year — water changes get pushed back, glass goes unwiped, and algae starts creeping in. If you’re going to let anything slip, make sure your cleanup crew is picking up the slack.
Cerith snails are one of the best investments you can make for a low-maintenance tank. They work every layer — substrate, glass, and rockwork — eating detritus, cyano, diatoms, film algae, and leftover food before it can fuel a bloom. They’re nocturnal too, so they’re putting in work while you’re not even looking!
First thought was a snail, but now I’m not sure.
Summer hits and tank maintenance slides. It happens every year — water changes get pushed back, glass goes unwiped, and algae starts creeping in. If you’re going to let anything slip, make sure your cleanup crew is picking up the slack.
Cerith snails are one of the best investments you can make for a low-maintenance tank. They work every layer — substrate, glass, and rockwork — eating detritus, cyano, diatoms, film algae, and leftover food before it can fuel a bloom. They’re nocturnal too, so they’re putting in work while you’re not even looking!
Cerith Lg Snail
3-Week Tank Update
5 straight days of stable parameters:
✅ Ammonia: 0
✅ Nitrites: 0
✅ Nitrates: 4 ppm
New additions to the tank:
🌌 Galaxy Pods introduced
🦀 2 Electric Blue Hermit Crabs
🦀 2 Crimson Red Hermit Crabs
🐌 5 Stocky Red Stripe Trochus Snails
🐌 6 Cerith Snails
🐌 2 Nassarius Snails
Can anyone tell me why my snail is vaping😭
New snails
Trochus snail eggs or sperm? It’s been doing this for 20 minutes.
Need help, any one have any idea about what's are these snails?
(Location I caught them: Stulang laut, malaysia)
New IM 25 Lagoon here! Upgrading from a Marineland Portrait 5gal pico that ran for 3 years. The rock on the back right is from that tank along with the clown, 1 blue leg hermit, and 1 snail. Hoping the existing rock carries enough bacteria that the cycle isn't too crazy and everything goes smoothly. 🙏🏻 CaribSea
Hawaiian Black Arag, AI Prime 16HD, stock return pumps but thinking of going to a AI Axis 40, spin streams on both returns, and a Nero 3 on the right wall. Inkbird temp controller and 50w heater. IM caddy on right chamber with floss and Seachem matrix, left chamber is still a sock but changing to VCA NOSOK when it arrives. I look forward to seeing your tanks! Especially 25 Lagoons! Any advice is appreciated 🙂
Snail ID?
LFS said it was an Aussie Rock Snail. Looks encrusted or like someone glued a frag on it. Moves slow, clumsy as hell, and has tube worms growing on it. Possibly more, but nothing soft. The large tube at the underside had a large bristle worm in it that eventually moved to the rockwork. Keeping them under control with a wrass for now, but can't find any info on this snail. Not sure if the bristle worm was symbiotic or just a hitchhiker.
My snail seems to be freshly dead, but before I was about to take him out I noticed small red bugs. Any idea what that might be?
The first inhabitants of my nano reef: a few mini hermit crabs and turbo snails
New snail