Snails for your aquarium

Snails 🐌 are generally known to live in a terrestrial environment, some species are able to acclimate to an aquatic environment 🌊.

Within the class of gastropods, snails have gills on the back or front of the body allowing them to breathe underwater 💧.

Usually located in freshwater streams or brackish waters, there are nevertheless snails living in saltwater.

The general anatomy of snails consists of their retractable eyes, raspy tongue, single foot, shell and skin.
It is important to take care of these animals and not to lock them in small aquariums just because they are small. They need to move easily.
For their comfort, it is necessary to pay special attention to lighting, filtration, heating and planting.

To adopt a snail and not to rush it, the setting in water can be a little long.
You can start acclimating it to its new environment by placing it in a container and adding water from your aquarium. Repeat this process until it comes out of its shell.

The advantage of owning snails is cleaning. Similar to cleaner fish, snails feed on decaying plants or even organic waste 🌿.

To diversify this diet, they can feed on vegetables, flakes, pellets or even herbs like dandelions 🌻.
With this method, the snails will keep their health.

Whether purchased commercially or developed in the bin, snails can appear in a variety of ways. Often originating from plants closing their eggs 🥚.

They can be considered a sign of good aquarium balance. However, it is necessary to ensure a low development to avoid the risk of invasion because they are species that reproduce very quickly.

To get rid of them, a complete cleaning of the aquarium is effective or the introduction of snail-eating fish 🐌.

👉 At Planktovie, we have several snails in our aquarium, some of them are burrowers and roam the sand in search of food. What about you do you own snails ?