Adding Snails to Fish Tanks

Pet ownership is a big responsibility, even taking care of fish. A clean fish tank will keep your pets swimming happily for a long time. Fish care requires minimal maintenance and provide a quiet and relaxing atmosphere for you home. Do the same for your fish and provide them with a serene environment for them to thrive.

Keeping a clean fish tank is essential for a healthy fish. Learn when to clean the filters in a fish tank and when snails and algae eaters can be helpful in maintaining a clean environment. A pet expert will explain what tools can be used to clean algae and how to get rid of cloudy water. If you are interested in owning a fish as a pet, let our pet expert show you how to get started by creating a nice and healthy environment for your fish.

"Okay, now after our tank has been up for a good while maybe two or three weeks and we've got fish in our tank. They're thriving, they're happy, they're eating, they're doing all the things that fishes do. We should consider adding snails and/or algae eaters, Plecostomus. These not only add interest to the tank, they also serve the function of sort of scavenger or garbage, garbage, garbage organisms. Do the job that say Vultures do or scavengers do. First what we'll look at is the snail. Now you wouldn't add these to the tank right away, being that there is not going to be something for them to eat. Usually you'll wait three, four weeks before adding snails or algae eaters. Snails you can probably get away with because they don't consume that much. Algae eaters you definitely want to wait at least three or four weeks before you add them. You would think that this is not a, not a hard thing to do but it's very crucial that when you add a snail that you don't just dump it in there because believe it or not they can actually drown if you don't make sure that they're lodged on a piece of gravel or on the grass. So, what you'll do is you'll get your snail, it'll be in a bag, and you can kind of just reach in here. Float the bag would be a good idea too. Remember we are conservative on everything. Put it down and kind of make sure that the snail when he comes out of his shell is going to be able to lodge himself and affix itself, affix himself on a piece of gravel. What you don't want to do, is like this, the tendency he is going to want to flip over anyway but occasionally you can just put them like upside down and they won't be able to right themselves and they'll die. They'll be floating in your tank the next day. So we're going to put that little guy right there, he's going to come out when he feels a little more comfortable and be able to affix his self onto a piece of gravel and about his merry way."