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looking for nerite snails

This is a discussion on looking for nerite snails within the Sales/Spotted/Group Buy forums, part of the Aquarium Related Chat category; looking for some nerite snails, preferably ones that will breed in a tanganyikan tank and keep my glass/rocks really clean ...

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    looking for some nerite snails, preferably ones that will breed in a tanganyikan tank and keep my glass/rocks really clean
    kh/gh are both ~12-15 degrees hardness
    i remember target mentioned he had some striped ones breeding in a fw shrimp tank
    anyone know where i can get a small army of these for a decent price?

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    Island Pets Richmond store has oliver nerite snails on sale this week
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    Quote Originally Posted by dmaobc View Post
    Island Pets Richmond store has oliver nerite snails on sale this week
    Mferko,
    Those would work, they do a great job!
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    i got some today. you might need a brackish tank to breed them though...

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    i'll snag some today, got classes on the other side of landsdowne so i'll b close
    i wonder if all the cichlid salt i put in there to buffer the GH makes it almost brackish? :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mferko View Post
    i'll snag some today, got classes on the other side of landsdowne so i'll b close
    i wonder if all the cichlid salt i put in there to buffer the GH makes it almost brackish? :P
    Try them and see, no harm in increasing your GH anyways. Africans are quite happy with a GH around 18 or even higher.
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    ah i just realized you replied here, you alrdy have a PM :P
    i'll increase the GH a bit too maybe

 

 

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