Snails

[Marine_Tank]

Hi All,

Can anyone share their experience on below points regarding snails care ?

1. What to feed to snails i.e. astrae or cowries breed ?

2. How do you identify their breed and habitat ?

3. Can they survive in high nitrate environment like fishes i.e. abv 50 ppm or 100 ppm ?

4. Any other important things to know or I have missed out ?

I have tried using lettuce (the one u get from wet market) but to no avail ? Heard that can throw in some dry seaweed from reading the mails here ? I have abt 5 snails in my 75 gallon tank and I am afraid they have nothing to eat as they have very voracious appetite for algae or marine diatoms.

[Morgan]

As you probably know, most snail feeds on marine algae...some are scavengers and some are predators.

The two type of snail you mention feed on algae but not all type of algae.

The beautiful cowries species diet consist of mainly green algae...some even feed on sponges. They smaller species are not so easy to keep compared to the larger tigers and the arabians.

These large cowries need alot of food to survive.

Don't think that cowries can do well in a high nitrate water as they are found in the clean water of the reef environment.