#Neritina pulligera

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Aaaa I realised I haven’t talked about my new family members yet! MEET MY BEAUTIFUL NEW SNAILS, King the faunus sp. bicolour and three nameless neritina pulligera!! I’ve longed to have snails for such a long time because I had giant african land snails yeeears ago and I miss them ;_; 

These four heartthrobs are so cute and active I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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Caracol Casco Negro (Neritina Pulligera)

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Got myself a few new snails the biggest one being Neritina pulligera the other 2 are below 1cm and need to grow first.

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Oh my gooood, look at that snail, carrying around it's tiny hydra friend! This is adorable. I gotta draw this duo someday.

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Hey there,

I use neritina pulligera in all of my tanks. They will clean the glass and many other (stable) surfaces VERY thoroughly and need saltwater to successfully reproduce so their number stays the same. They are always wild caught though, be aware of that.

Disclaimer: I live in Europe so I don't know if they are available in the US.

Hi 17g tank with 2 mysteries and some endlers anon here! I’ve been having problems with brown diatom algae in my current tank (along with a whole slew of other pests, which is why I’m gutting it), are there any fish that would get along with the endlers and mysteries and help eat up the diatoms? Thank you so much for your help!

Not really. I don’t recommend using animals to clean up algae, because they cannot subsist entirely on algae and would need their feeding supplemented, and most wouldn’t do a good enough cleaning job to be considered a solution.

Otos are incompatible and quite shy and sensitive, so they’re out. Snails, like nerites and ramshorns will eat some, but they’ll just leave snail tracks of clean spots instead of eating all of it. Siamese algae eaters are big, social, and can be aggressive as adults. Chinese algae eaters are big and get territorial as they grow up. 

The single best way to manage algae is to identify the cause, fix what is causing it, and wipe all the algae off.

Keep in mind, however, nearly every aquarium- from tiny at home betta tanks to public aquarium tanks- have algae somewhere. Unless the algae is harmful, most aquarists, including myself, just wipe it off the front pane and ignore it. 

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Neritina pulligera

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Nano Shrimp aquarium (first month)

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Oh you guys, Shiva's tank has been very frustrating lately. Many plants died, even two substitutes for the old ones... I assume they didn't get enough light? I heard it's best to start out with less light so the algae don't outgrow the plants until they rooted, but to me it seems these plants won't root AT ALL. They all just decay from bottom up until there's nothing left to replant. I cleaned all the hidden mess out today and it was disgusting. It borders to a miracle the parameters were okay. I really hope what's left will root okay, but I don't know how to help :c For now I added a little fertilizer and keep the light on for longer. I feel that might have bettered the situation so far. I've also added a few things, like the little branch on a suction cup in the front, one of Shiva's favorite resting spots. Also the little vase in the front. It's not too kitschy and adds a little variety for our smart fishy. Two neritina pulligera are taking care of the algae - plus one blue ramshorn snail. We used to have a pink one in there, too, but it fell to the ground during a water change and just... Died. :c Never seen that before. Please excuse Shiva's ragged fins - He's bitten out a piece again, but all in all it seems to be getting better.

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When nobody's looking

I went to my office room in the late evening after the tank and room lighting had been off for hours to treat my Amanos with a piece of cucumber. I switched on the light of the room, stuck the cucumber to their moss tree and suddenly noticed how peaceful John Lemon seemed. Usually he patrols the front of his tank all day, he even drew a line in the sand by constantly swimming up and down there, but now he calmly sat in his Althernatera plant that the Amanos love munching on so much. He didn't mind the holes in its leaves. Usually his eyes seem black in the light, but as his tank wasn't illuminated, his iris reflected the light and showed his eye color. It was the first time I've really seen it. It was a dark yellow. I looked around to notice one of my neritina pulligera in the Althernatera as well. They usually look very heavy, but today, she hung on a narrow leaf, seeming totally weightless. She slowly climbed from leaf to leaf while carefully eating the algae film off of them. Then I noticed Johnny slowly swimming around his tank, just as if he was taking a nice peaceful walk around his garden, but I also saw him hunting. I think he ate one of the pest snails that had gathered around the small rest of a kelp tab. I always love it when bettas lean over a little bit to look at a detail on the substrate, and then strike. I tend to forget they are predators. I noticed his anal fin has finally reached it's final length, but it also had a slit - possibly because he was dragging it aroumd the sand during his patrols all day. The Amanos foraged as usual, they hadn't noticed the cucumber yet. It's so cute how they are never really out on their own. They love to sit on the inside of the moss tree and under sunken almond leaves that they eat when they get soft enough. They leave a delicate mesh of plant veins behind and continue to use it as a hide. When I looked up I noticed a small worm gliding on the glass, and found some more after taking a closer look. They were thicker and longer than nematodes, but didn't have the small head that planaria have. I wonder what they are and where they came from. In the thicket of the plants I could see the sheer number of pest snails that were dotted around the plants as tiny shadows. Since I've removed a lot of the thicket I haven't seen any baby snails anymore, and almost all of the present ones are grown up. I think they are now regulating themselves. One of the Amanos had now found the cucumber, but quickly lost interest. Another one close by cleaned up the moss crown of the tree.

When I left the room, I was calm. I had sat there maybe for half an hour, but it felt like a small eternity. Like I now understood the little world I had created not so long ago in this cube of glass a whole lot better now.

It was nice to see that there's not always just darkness at night, but also a chance for being at peace, being weightless, or just doing your thing when nobody's looking.