The Best Aquarium Snails for Algae Control: Inca Snail

The BestAquarium Snails for Algae Control: Inca Snail – The Inca Snail is part of the Apple Snail family by which there are over 100 species that is recorded that is distinct. Unlike a few other snails, the Inca Snail stays relatively little and ought to leave your aquarium plants alone (for the large part). 

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The Best Aquarium Snails for Algae Control: Inca Snail


They do like some other structures in your aquarium looking for algae and to graze on the tank glass. In case you own a sand tank bottom, they may submerge throughout the day and come out during the nighttime. They are reasonably simple to care for but there certainly are a couple things to remember in regards to caring for this particular snail.

They are herbivores, so they're going to need a lot of greens in their own diet. This will provide lots of nourishment for your own snails. Avoid keeping them with fish that are known snail eaters like the fish in the loach family. Goldfish are also proven to nibble at them ocassionally. Some fish will even nip at the snail's tentacles, sometimes nipping off most of it. This does not appear to worry the snail and often times it will grow back.

Gold Inca Snail Character & Conduct

A Gold Inca Snail could be very active during times when the tanks lights are on going through the aquarium on the hunt for food, interesting locations to research, or a quiet spot to have a rest. When the tank lights are off, a Gold Inca Snail can also be quite energetic. Inca Snails are often busy feeding at night in complete darkness.

Reproduction

There really are a couple things to be considered to breed apple snails:

- Since Inca snails their eggs over the water, you need to supply enough air space ( 15cm/6 inch).

- Inca a aestivation period in the mud before they breed successfully (does not apply to the most common species).

- For those species that lay are gonochoristic (separated genders), a male and a female snail are needed(obvious).

- Inca snails reproduce when the temperature climbs with abundance of food available in conjunction.

Eating Diet

Their diet should even be supplemented with sinking pellets (spiraluna, alga) and they are going to also appreciate the occasional vegetable. Their special favorites are blanched shelled peas, zucchini and cucumber medallions and lettuce leafs. Any uneaten food should really be taken from the tank after 24 hours, to prevent it from fouling the water.

Gold Inca Snail Environment & Habitat

My Gold Inca Snail population appear happy and do well in a planted aquarium. I suppose the reason is a tank with plenty of live plants is never actually too clean, meaning that there is a plentiful supply of edible vegetation shedding from your live plants themselves (see note involving live plants below). And when a Gold Mystery Snail takes a live aquarium plant is bitten off by a couple once in a while, I chalk it up as its having some fresh vegetation as a snack.

Mating

Unlike most snails available in the aquarium trade, apple snails aren't hermaphroditic and you want both a male along with a female for breeding. The most easy way to achieve this is to purchase six snails, which basically guarantees that you will have at least one female and male.

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