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
Need help, any one have any idea about what's are these snails?
(Location I caught them: Stulang laut, malaysia)
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?
Who is this traveler on the snail without a ticket? 🐌
Can anyone tell me what is the pink stuff growing on my snail?
OK, this is a new one for me. I’ve seen snail eggs in patterns but not this. Friend or foe or WTH.
Thinking I have an outbreak of cyano. I have a reddish brown algae covering the sand, and I’m having to scrape the glass multiple times a day and it’s making the water cloudy. Any recommendations? Not sure if this related, but I had bottomed out nitrates few weeks ago. I increased my feedings to twice a day, but this cyano seems to have gotten worse. I’ve been dosing NeoNitro and got my nitrates to 4 so I’m happy with that. Nothing appearing stressed. I’ve stopped dosing coral animos daily, and temporarily stopping feeding the corals incase this is fueled from a nutrient overload. My parameters have been decent other than my low nitrates. I’ve added more snails over the weekend too. Trying to combat this as naturally as possible.
My snail is leaving this trail, anyone seen this before?
Day 46!
Some string type of algae is growing. Tomorrow I’ll scrub the glass and do a small water change.
How many snails do you count?
I scrubbed the rocks, & did a 3 gallon water change and added some snails. Let me know what y’all think. Just an update on the Bubble Tip anemone / Hair Algae issue.