Re: [GSAS-Member] Nerite Snails

["Shango Los" <Shango@shangolos.com>]

I agree with you Cliff.

A Place for Pets is definitely worth the drive to Burien.

Thanks for your guidance.

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[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Clifford Miller
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:06 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Nerite Snails


They had plenty at A Place for Pets the last time I was there. (a ways
south of seattle, I know, but it's a cool shop). You can buy them pretty
cheaply in bulk online, and with their recent popularity in fresh tanks, I
don't think you'd have any trouble acclimating them if you wanted to go
that route.

If I was buying them from a salt distributor, I'd probably start with 1/2
salt and then just take a cups worth out every day, replacing with fresh
water until I couldn't taste the salt any more (just kidding about the
tasting though...).

If you're planning on putting them in a soft tank, I'd also take his
advice about the shells...I routinely smash my "extra" ramshorns and feed
them to my guppies and paradise fish.  The snails in my soft tanks smoosh
like butter (barely any shell), and the ones in the hard tank have sliced
my fingers open several times (now I just pull them out of that tank-- it
always seems to take a couple of times for me to really learn a new
lesson).

Major difference in survival rates for them as well (the hard tank is full
of snails for fish food, the soft tanks have very few). If you're going to
pay money for those, I'd at least have a bucket with some aragonite (or
other hard water substrate) set up to help them recover from their trips
to the soft water tanks for algea cleanup.  They're big enough to easily
move back and fourth by hand.

Cliff



> I don't know either answer, but I'd try acclimating them like this:
>
> 1/2 strength salt water for 1 week, then into fresh and see what happens.
> They're cheap bought locally, so if you can find the method, or figure one
> out, you'd be golden.
>
> - MS
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> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Shango Los <Shango@shangolos.com> wrote:
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>> Loved the presentation tonight.
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>> Does anyone know where I can get freshwater acclimated Nerite Snails in
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>> Seattle area?  If you know how to acclimatize them at home, please share
>> that too.
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>> Thanks
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>> Shango
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