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Can someone give me information & personal experience on Nerite Snails?.

Thanks alot in advance.


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I believe there is only 1 species of true freshwater nerites and the rest are brackish or saltwater. Most of the brackish snails though will live out their full lifespans in freshwater. Their eggs just won't hatch which makes them even more desireable. They don't eat plants, love most types of algae, eat some leftover food, and unless you get the fairly uncommon full freshwater species they don't reproduce in a freshwater tank. They'll lay little eggs everywhere but won't multiply to pest levels like most other snails.

Actually, quite a few members of the Neritidae inhabit freshwater for all of their adult lives, and many others (often hailing either from estuarine or tide-pool environments, both subject to great variation in salinity, along with several species which actively migrate between zones) can generally tolerate such conditions with ease. Nonetheless, I am aware of no study, for any such Nerite species, of lifespan and overall health comparisons between freshwater and higher-salinity captives.

http://www.applesnail.net/content/snails_various.php refers to the following genera:

- Clypeolum: widespread in the tropical Pacific basin.
- Fluvionerita: mountain brooks of Jamaica.
- Neritilia: all tropical regions.
- Neritina: tropical Atlantic coasts, Indo-Pacific.
- Neritodryas: Malay archipelago.
- Septaria: rivers and streams of large South-Pacific islands, Madagascar, India.
- Theodoxus: Europe and southwestern Asia.

"However, there is no complete agreement between the different authors regarding the genera and ranges given for their included species."

Thanks alot for both reply's. I only have 3 Nerite Snails & in the fresh water tank, with them, i have 3 Brichardi fry. Lately, i am finding alot of white spots on the tank glass, but i don't think that they are eggs.

Does anyone have the same problem as me?.


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