SNAILS
Add a few snails to your fry tank. They clean the tank, eat the excess food and
vegetable matter and their droppings are consumed by the infusorians making
more food for your fry. Feed the snails cabbage, lettuce or other vegetables.
Giant Ramshorn Snails
My favorite is the Giant Ramshorn snail. Their shell is a simple flat coil
with no spire or point. Known as Ramshorn because of the shape and coloration
of their shell. Giant Ramshorn snails grow to 2 or 3 inches in diameter.
They are hermaphrodite (they have both male and female organs).
All of them can lay eggs. The egg mass is large and covered
with jelly. They are herbivores and graze on the algae that coat the aquarium
and plants. These snails will eat some aquarium plant. Unfortunately, Giant
Ramshorn and a few other large snails are prohibited by the Texas fish & game
laws.
Texas Prohibited Species
Still, the small, common ramshorn snails do a great job keeping the tank clean
and feeding the infusorians. But be careful, Adult Bettas like to eat small snails.
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