Lol I have 2 nerites and one would leave the filter. He kept moving but he just kept exploring the filter. I later named him Phil (filter-fil-Phil). I couldn’t think of a name for the other one so I call him “not Phil”

The nerite snail is like an aquatic roomba 😊

My betta loves his nirites, sometimes when they're at the top of the tank he'll rest on a floating plant right next to them like they're cuddling almost. I think the snails are his fav because they move slow and are chill like him.

We love our nerite snail, Twinkle. He has been amazing at keeping our tank algae free, and our female betta, Night Sky, leaves him alone. :)

I recently got nerites for the first time and I’m in love. I will never have a tank without them again, they are such good workers.

Forget the snails, I am in love with your voice! Very pleasant to the ear, and very comprehensive to the heart! 👌

I created a snail food / "snello" for my Nerites that 2 out of 3 actually like and will eat like little piggies! It's made from organic Spirulina Powder, organic Agar Powder and powdered calcium carbonate. When I first got my Nerite snails I had almost no algae in my tank and didn't realize that they wouldn't eat other foods. Out of desperation I created an organic, veggie snello that they actually LOVED and wolfed down in a matter of a couple of hours! It was a huge relief because they hadn't eaten for about a week and I was worried they would starve to death! I keep extra snello on hand in my freezer in case I ever need to transfer them to a new tank that doesn't have algae yet and I still give it to them from time to time to make sure they get enough calcium for their shells. BTW... they seem to eat the snello best when it's smeared onto a piece of driftwood or rock in the tank.

Just great. I bought 3 Mystery snails yesterday and now I found this video. Looks like I made a big mistake.

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that coconut house so adorable 4:13

My 5 gallon was covered. I had a mystery snail, a black devil, a pond snail, and a dozen MTS for a month with no change. I added one nerite and it was almost entirely gone in about 4 days.

Between the cherry shrimp and the nerites I added, they destroyed a huge hair algae bloom in less than a week. Incredible.

At least your little pea puffers won’t go hungry when you have a breeding colony of rams horn snails 🐌

I love how healthy all of your snails look! They’re so beautiful

This video was so dope I love snails now

I came to the same conclusions you did :) I did try ramshorns and their similar friend trumpet snails, both really explode in population and are more of a bother than a help unless you're fine with hundreds of the buggers that you can't easily get rid of. I found the trumpets to be even worse than the ramshorns in this respect. And I think the ramshorns are a little cuter. They got into my filter and everywhere, and they are super survivors. I love mystery snails as a main pet. They have a lot of personality and are endearing. One other thing to think about is some fish may pick on them and bite their antennae. They do grow back, but that makes the mystery snail more shy. It's just fun to see them trucking around waving their antennae. It's also fun to feed them veggies and other things. I'm glad you mentioned they need high calcium. I used a partial shell substrate and would put in some cuttlebone and that seemed good for mine. Nerite snails are pretty but stay small. They are just efficient tank cleaners that you may not see a lot of. I think keeping them with mystery snails is good since mystery snails are haphazard eaters. The little white eggs can be slightly annoying but it's not the worst. I am glad they actually don't easily successfully breed or they could be a problem snail too. If you only have 1-2 nerites I think that is enough to get the job done and they don't lay that many eggs. One other important point is the snails may decide to vacate the tank if you have any openings or they can push a lightweight lid. I had this problem with mystery snails- mine wandered my room several times before I figured out how to close the hole around the filter. Fortunately it's easy to follow their slime trail and they generally can survive being out for a little while. My friend said her nerites also escaped but mine stayed put.

Awesome experiment, thank you!

My Nerite snails are sluggish and one has a crack in in shell. Something that I notice between the two species is you can see the Mystery snail out and about while the shell of the Nerite you are lucky to catch them on the go and you never even see pneumostome , breathing tube. My substrate is lightly planted and is made of peatmoss and sand. They can spend all day just sitting in it without movement. I really do enjoy the progress of both. Thank you for sharing the video. 😁

I was looking for this topic. Thank you for sharing your research.

Awesome comparison video, This will surely help people get what they need done.

I’ve got a ton of nerite snails in my tanks. I love them. 😝

I had never seen algae on my tanks' walls until I had a Mystery Snail only tank. They do eat and poop like crazy: their snello, algae wafers, blanched veggies, my plants (big time), but they are definitely above munching on glass algae. The other tanks (with nerites in) were always spotless.

This is a very helpful video hey! really impressed!

I’m good with algae it’s just with tetras I need a cleanup crew for food. So this was really helpful!! Thank you

The nerve of some snails. 😂👌🏻 Great video Sheila.

I enjoyed watching the video. Thanks for posting. We don't have any Mystery Snails but we have several types of Nerites and they're awesome algae eaters. We have some Bladder Snails and they do very good cleanup work as well.

In my experience, mystery snails are the best and fastest, but nerite snails definitely enjoy the algae more!

This was really helpfull, thanks!

I have two 33 Gallon tanks and I bought 2 nerite snails for each, 1 red and one yellow/black horned and 1 yellow black/zebra and another yellow/black horned and put them in my tanks. One tank had a coconut hut that was completely green on top and in 3 days was back to spotless brown. Great algae eaters, one tank had a fake plant with algae on it and the others are eating that, cleaning up leafs every day.

I’ve always loved nerite snails. I’ve had many for 2+ years every time I purchase one. I’ve had them in groups of up to 6 and I love how much they clean! I don’t completely rely on them but they are a little bonus. I was rooting for the nerites from the beginning 😅😉😄

Good job! Thanks for this video

Totally agree! I absolutely love nerites. They're cute, they don't have population explosions, and they are so good at keeping the algae in check. I never thought I'd like snails as much as I do but after the first tiger nerite I got (I named her Zoomy), I can't imagine a tank without one. I now have three horned nerites that I rotate through my various tanks as needed. That purple mystery snail is very lovely though!

I have 6 nerite in my pond I'm glad to see that they grow so much.

This is really informative!!! :)

I'm totally into snails too! and the winner of the experiment is the nerites! I have a few questions but I'll just have to research them. thanks for the video.

I need one of those giant mystery snails.. I love them :)

Would be interested to see a larger experiment with more species, including pest species and newer rarer species. Apple/mystery, blueberry, nerite, ramshorn, dwarf ramshorn, bladder, pond, trumpet, and of course the inexplicably hated freshwater limpet.

I think your videos are great and very informative!

I love my nerite snails. I have a tiger and zebra. I’ve only had them for 2 months.

Thanks for the info and comparison. I need a nerite for algae in a Betta tank, thanks again!

Thanks for the content. I will purchase a few merits snails, based on your experiment and results.

Great experiment! I learned something new. Btw, i ONLY have zebra nerite snails & lots of the eggs have hatched! They grow slow (which i like) but what do great is the these tiny babies teach leaves them bigger snails can’t!

This video helped convince me to get two nerites tomorrow. I'm having an algae problem on my walls and this helped answer my question. Thanks so much!

I only had 1fish for a few weeks and it got sick and died. Wasn’t sure I did something or the fish was ill when I got it. Never got another one. I’m learning a lot watching these videos. Thank you

I'm glad you do highlighting about WASTE !! 🙂

Nice video, I use Ramshorn Snails and Malaysian Trumpet Snails to keep my tanks clean! I even have a time lapse of them crawling around the plants and glass eating the algae!

Holy crap thank you. Finally some decent science on KZfaq!

The Nerite snails are much better in eating algae in any aquarium! 🌷🌿

You’re definitely right about the wood, my narrite nails are always cleaning and moving the Cholla wood around. Good luck on trying to Aqua scape with that because wherever you put it they’re going to twist it and roll it and move it. I love your mystery snails, the purple is amazing. When I got my narrates nails they had little white spots on them, my KHNGHR up there enough for guppies and I put a few pieces of crushed coral in the bottom but they don’t seem to play with it, what do you give them to fix that or is that just always going to be white now?

Great video! Thank you.

Thanks for this video. Just getting interested in having some snails. What kind of plant is that you have at the back of these tanks? Thanks.

I love nerve snails alot

Nerite snails are kinda cute. Mine love to perch atop the output of a sponge filter. No issues in water quality when checked, but they just loved doing that. Once they've enjoyed enough of a cool breeze, they snail along back into the water.

THANK You!

Nerites for the win! Great experiment with good visual results 💕

Thank you so much for this information!!! I have a very large Mystery and will definitely try the other now.

My nerite snail is my favourite. i got a couple of mystery snails and didn’t know how big they would get. The mystery snails also mash food around and kinda pigs, their pop is a lot too. The nerite snail is a bit under the radar and it’s poop isn’t very bit at all. The nerite just does it’s thing and keeps things pretty clean. I have soft water and have had to put cuttle bone in the water because the nerite got a bit of a raggy shell. I also like that it stays under it’s shell and I can see it’s little mouth on the glass. A nice, quiet and efficient snail.

Nerite are not only great at eating algae, they are also great at crawling out of the tank on to the floor. I have a sealed tank now and I am worried about gas exchange.

Great great video. Both my 15g and 55g have nerites. 13 in all including 5 sun horned nerites. I need them to start doing a better job of eating the brown diatoms on my plants. Particularly my java ferns. It hasn't gotten to my crypts, or anubias yet, but those brown diatoms (algae) make my ferns look horrible. Any suggestions? I'm not getting otocinclus...lol

Brilliant - very informative - very helpful

The small species of snails which hitchhike with plants are the very best at getting your tank looking brand new in a very short amount of time. Then as long as you don't overfeed, their population should remain manageable....even rising and falling again as food sources build than deplete. Thats the definition of balance.

My apple snails ,I have two larger ones and a small one, love green beans,broad beans, cucumber, sweet corn, garden peas, watercress, cabbage and they get snail pellet food and cuttle bone:) Apart from them I have four small clams who filter and detritus worms who help eat the waste.

The panda corys kept distracting me lmao especially when I noticed one who swam above middle of the tank-- it surprised me hahaha

That's more or less what I thought. The pity is that breeding nerites is a bit tricky.

I loved it when she said the snail had a nice stripe then stuck it onto the glass😂💖

Beautifully colours

Thank you! Ive got that snail in my tank..just instinct made me but it..whats your opinion on trumpet ? Rabbit snails? (Think thats what theyre called)

Nerite snails are the best nails!😊😊😊😊

i have tanks and i clean them every week with scrubs to remove algaes.. but when i both nerite snails.. it has been 2 months no need for scrubings.. even my fish houses are shiny clean.. very thankful to my hardworking nerites

My mystery snail (Sally) is amazing at cleaning all types of alge off rocks in the tank, but doesn't do much with the glass.

aw, I wanted to see which one of the "pest snails" could clean it the best, I honestly dont mind them and they are great scavengers, and the population is easy to control as long as you control the food. Snails like the bladder snail, malaysian trumpet, and the ramshorn

i have a cycled planted tank rn with just a mystery and two nerites (waiting for the sponge filter to come in so i can add shrimp- the filter i have rn kind of sucks) and i love that setup. my nerites have always been rather nocturnal (even in a snail-only tank) and they bury themselves between the gravel and the glass walls during the day. mysteries have so much personality & funkiness but holy crap do nerites get the job done with algae.

Hello Sheila. I hope you and your family are staying positive and well. This video was very informative in selecting Mystery snails or nerite snails to clean the tanks glass with Algae! This will help me to decide which snails to purchase to clean my tanks with algae!

wow.. impressive.. im beginning with the aquarium life and put two snails in there to start about 3 days ago. (forgot the breed) one is constantly moving around and cleaning which is neat to watch, the other has been attached to a plant now pretty much after I put it in the tank. It attached to the end of stem where the leave begins. Not sure if this is the process of laying eggs, some kind of hibernation or what?? have you seen this behavior?

Thank you

I had a zebra nerite snail I my tank and he did.a great at keeping it clean I just didn't like the little white eggs left on my driftwood.

Love this video very in dept explaining I too had a Ramhorn breeding outbreak that I had to sell a bunch of them off Mystery Snails have such beautiful shell colour

Nerite birinci sınıf temizleyici.. Video için teşekkürler 😉

Escaping...that's also a big thing to think about.. large mystery snails are good at that...my large one got out my larger tank I was lucky to find it...I placed it short term in a 3.5 with a few old male guppies and he seems really happy...he sleeps in a small flower pot...and eats Cory cat food and leafy overs...my nerite snails who are so old now are fine if you leave them space to get out the water...they like to get away from my guppies who feed off the algae on the shells...

I think mystery’s are the best but I also really like Nerite

Nerite snails are the best without a doubt. Something to keep in mind tho. While Nerites cant breed in fresh water they do lay eggs especially on wood which can be extremely hard to remove. Other thing to know about Nerites, they cannot right themselves like other snails. This becomes a bigger problem as they get bigger. When adding them to your tank be sure to set them upright on the substrate. Occasionally they may get knocked off the glass by fish and can land upside down where they may end up stuck like that and starve to death if not found and righted first.

I will say this. I have planted tanks. I keep snails in all of them. I have rams, Malaysians, a wild type of rams horn, another type of snails am from the wild as well. They are only in 2 of my tanks. They a adorable and do a great job in my shrimp tank. I keep neurites snails as well, and also mystery snails. Not one tank has all of these in them. I have 20 active tanks and they all different snails that suit tge needs of the tank. I also keep scuds as well. They came from a friend on some plants he gave me. They have worked wonders in some of my planted tanks. They do a good job along with Malaysian snails at turning up the sand so the roots of plants do not get compacted.

Very helpful video, thank you for posting! It's ok to put both nirite and mystery in the same tank too right?

Love nerites. I don’t mind the eggs as they’re easy to clean up.

Nerites eat a lot of algae because in the sea where they live has high amounts of calcium which the shells absorb.

I got a 10 gallon tank a nerite snail and a shrimp or 2 . I just bought 2 , ottocinclus fish.

i can vouch for nerites laying eggs. i have 3 in my one tank and one keeps by himself and the 2 others are usually piggy backing across the tank. my piece of wood looks like a dalmation i had some eggs on the glass and they arnt easy to get off. my algae scraper doesnt even touch it but i can feel it going over them and it feels rubbery or like silicone lol. they do come off tho

I guess I have been lucky cause I have three nerite snails in my 29 gallon and I have never seen white eggs. It's my guppie tank and they do a great job with the algae.

I love your set up!! What kind of guppy is the yellow and blue one? 6:30 in the video

Hi! I need something to clean up algea in my 3 gallon betta tank , any suggestions?

What size tank were those tanks because they seemed like a good size

What kind of snails can handle warmer water - like 84 degrees? Also, how about soft water? I'm having trouble with nerite snails at this temperature. I have Discus, so I need to keep it warm. Don't want bristlenose plecos either as when they get bigger, they eat plants.

What do u feed snails as I have 8 zebra snails and my tank doesn’t have algae so I’ve brought some algae wafers

So I just got mystery snails a month ago and I’m planning on getting a huge tank for them soon and get so many more but I’ve gotten so many different answers on this but how long is there lifespan?

I added apple snail today.. It started digging up in the substrate.. It did that in 3 spots within first 10 minutes.. I moved it back to quarantine tank for now.. . Any reason they do that? How to get it to stop? It id ruining the aquascape by digs and uprooting plants..

I have a nerite and a mystery snail in my 20 long neocardinia shrimp tank… The nerite hasn’t left the mopani wood hardscape since the day it was introduced 2 weeks ago, I can see little trails where it’s been eating my expensive wood decoration… it has t touched the algae, hasn’t cruised the glass, it’s just been eating the mopani wood. My mystery snail has been everywhere in the tank, on the glass, on the hardscape, climbing the plants it’s capable of climbing, I’ve even seen it snacking on the duckweed, it’s eaten more actual greenery in the five days it’s been in the tank than the nerite has touched in two weeks, it leaves my healthy plants alone, and only goes after duckweed and dying leaves My red ramshorns eat more algae than the stupid nerite…

I made an entire 30 liters Aquarium just for ramshorn snails. I love this adorable little fast breeding things.

My mystery diet is peas, zucchini, beans with added eggshells and cuddle bone, frozen and I add a chunk before she wakes up. My betta likes the peas too.

I would really appreciate some advice on nerite snails. I got them thrice.. one pair each time and they kept dying overnight. Idk what I am doing wrong. I have 4 healthy shrimps in the same tank I was putting them. I love snails but they keep dying 😓

Hate the eggs, but nerites are the way to go. I consider a mystery snail more of decoration.