Red Ramshorn, Columbian Ramshorn Snails

Belleville MI

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I have a few red ramshorn snails, $1/ea, and a bunch of Columbian ramshorns, $3ea. The red ramshorns make GREAT algae-cleaners, are snail, fish, shrimp, and plant safe, are unlikely to climb out of an aquarium, and will make more of themselves. They do need calcium to make their shells nice, so you should be prepared to add calcium carbonate to the tank in some form once in a while. This is easily accomplished by giving pellets made for snails/shrimp that will have calcium and trace elements they need in it, using aquarium-safe calcium carbonate pills, offering cuttlebone/baked clean eggshells. Columbian ramshorns (Marisa cornuarietis) are actually not ramshorn snails, they are an apple snail with a ramshorn shell. They get around 3x as big as a ramshorn and have very beautiful shells if they are provided enough calcium. They are NOT plant safe or compatible with real ramshorn snails, as they will eat them. They also cannot be kept in an unlidded aquarium, as (like all apple snails) they will crawl out. However, they are dimorphic, and so will not make more of themselves if there is only 1 in the tank, or if you get only males. I cannot reliably tell you which is which, these are offered straight run only.