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3 Prambanan Nerite Snails

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These Nerite snails offer more than just ornamental beauty—they're essential partners in aquarium maintenance. With their voracious appetite for algae, Prambanan Nerite Snails help keep your tank clean and algae-free, ensuring a healthy environment for your aquatic inhabitants to thrive. Plus, their gentle grazing habits won't harm live plants or disturb delicate substrates, making them ideal additions to any freshwater or saltwater aquarium setup.

Unlock the secret to effortless aquarium maintenance with Prambanan Nerite Snails. Their natural ability to scour surfaces for algae ensures that your tank remains pristine with minimal effort on your part. Watch as these tiny yet mighty creatures glide gracefully across your aquarium, leaving behind a trail of cleanliness and tranquility. Elevate your aquatic oasis with the beauty and functionality of Prambanan Nerite Snails, and experience the joy of a thriving and harmonious underwater world.

Background and Key Benefits

Nerite snails or Neritina sp. are freshwater snails related to the mollusk family. They will clean algae from glass, substrate, and décor. They are also so popular in our hobby because they do not reproduce in freshwater. In the wild these snails return to brackish water to breed and the baby snails require brackish water for early stages of growth. Therefore, Nerite snails will not overpopulate in an aquarium.

Along with serving practical purposes in the aquarium, the snails have  beautiful shells and they are fun to watch. If you look at your glass closely after adding them, you will see the tiny track marks these snails make as they graze on algae!

We keep these snails on pool filtered sand and in bare bottom tanks with a Matten filters. We feed Shrimp King Algae Pops and Shrimp King Snail Stixx along with Indian Almond Leaves for natural biofilm. We also use LED lighting to provide enough natural algae growth  for them to feed. 
Please note: During shipping, snails sometimes go into a hibernation-like state and may not become fully active for up to a week once acclimated to your aquarium. 

 

Tank Parameters

  • Ph: 7.2 to 8.5
  • Gh: 7 to 15
  • Kh:  2 to 8
  • TDS: 120 to 400
  • Temp: 68 to 78

Tank Equipment

  • Filter: Matten Filter
  • Substrate: Pool Filter Sand
  • Water: RO/DI Water remineralized with Salty Shrimp Gh/Kh+
  • Decor: Malaysian Driftwood, Java Moss and Indian Almond Leaves

Customer Reviews

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Chris K.
Prambanan Nerite Snails.

These are lovely. I am pleased with them and with Flip Aquatics except during this lst order they sent me the wrong tetras, and they have neither refunded them nor returned multiple contacts to make it right. My first disappointment with their service, and if Flip is reading this please fix this issue.

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Patrick

I received three snails and one empty shell. One of them is very active!