NeveSSL
2500 Club Member
Hi all,
I've stumbled into something very, very interesting in my tank. My clean up crew seems to be self-sustaining and doing a great job without any money or effort from me... well, with one exception.
Back at the January meeting, I got a frag at the raffle that had a stomatella snail on it. Before that, back in September (I think... somewhere around there) I got some ricordias from Kevan from his tank switchover and ended up with collinista snails everywhere. These two types of snails have reproduced like crazy in my tank and do a great job at night of cleaning up the tank! They self-sustain and self-regulate based on how much food there is for them to eat and I never had to pay a dime for one of them. This is the perfect solution to me. I probably have 40 to 50 stomatellas and thousands of collonistas (they're tiny...). It seems to me to be a great solution.
Having said that, I did add two emerald crabs to the mix for bubble algae that started to appear. They weren't free and won't reproduce, but I've also not spend a ton of money on the snails. I also have a magnificent foxface that has really helped a lot with green hair algae.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with everyone. Let me know if you'd like some collinista or stomatella snails. I'd be happy to give them away. I have many, many more collinistas than stomatellas, but maybe I can get my refugium going soon to grow them all out.
Brandon
I've stumbled into something very, very interesting in my tank. My clean up crew seems to be self-sustaining and doing a great job without any money or effort from me... well, with one exception.
Back at the January meeting, I got a frag at the raffle that had a stomatella snail on it. Before that, back in September (I think... somewhere around there) I got some ricordias from Kevan from his tank switchover and ended up with collinista snails everywhere. These two types of snails have reproduced like crazy in my tank and do a great job at night of cleaning up the tank! They self-sustain and self-regulate based on how much food there is for them to eat and I never had to pay a dime for one of them. This is the perfect solution to me. I probably have 40 to 50 stomatellas and thousands of collonistas (they're tiny...). It seems to me to be a great solution.
Having said that, I did add two emerald crabs to the mix for bubble algae that started to appear. They weren't free and won't reproduce, but I've also not spend a ton of money on the snails. I also have a magnificent foxface that has really helped a lot with green hair algae.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with everyone. Let me know if you'd like some collinista or stomatella snails. I'd be happy to give them away. I have many, many more collinistas than stomatellas, but maybe I can get my refugium going soon to grow them all out.
Brandon
