Why are SNAILS GOOD For Your AQUARIUM? 

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I'm 100% pro-snail, but I also keep assassins to keep the population down. Just want to say that the editing in this video is STELLAR! Well done!

For some reason it's really hard to stay depressed watching your videos. I don't know if it's the "Hello fish friends" or just your overall enthusiasim but your videos always brighten my day. Thank you.

So many people complain about snails. Especially bladder and trumpet snails. Yes they will have surges in population. However, it's usually in direct correlation to how much you feed/the condition of the tank. I stopped worrying about them for several reasons. 1. They're a natural part of your enclosed ecosystem. 2. They break down dead and dying matter. If a fish kicks the bucket, I usually miss it because the snails eat it within an hour. 3. They're an excellent indicator of overall tank health.

I used to not like snails, but now as long as there are not an over abundance of them I love them.

I love my Golden mystery snails. I just bought them to speed up cycling, but they are the most relaxing enchanting creatures to watch. So now I'm doing a Cherry shrimp/Golden Mystery tank. Swper chilled!

I've gotten to the point where I feel a tank is incomplete without snails. Got a combination of ramshorns, Malaysians, and pond snails in all my tanks. Great help with maintenance! I will likely keep pea puffers as often as I have tanks. Snails make the most sense for their food source. My corys and angels enjoy snacking on snails, too!

I love snails! Love watching their antics and acrobatics. Their curiosity every time something new was added to the tank. I hate cleaning glass and hardscape. I used to dread weekend cleaning because of it and let my tanks turn into pea-soup with walls of algae. So I was happy to have hitchhiker snails and limpets. Now, I only top up water, clean filters, and gravel vac once a while. I don't worry about population explosions. My tactics are 1) only feed the fish in the fish tank. 2) have a separate tank for snails that I can't bear to kill. The snails in my fish tank remain low in population.

All my tanks and tubs have snails. I love them. Pond snails, ramshorn, and mystery snails currently. Not keeping nerites these days because of the eggs.

I love having snails in my planted tanks. They are a big help, just gotta have something to keep them under control.

Ive never had snails... But now I want them! Very informative, and I love the zucchini trick to catch them if you need to.

I really like snails! I have mystery, Nerite, rams horn, and rabbit snails in my tank. They all do well together. Also shrimp too. I think they all play a role in the tank

My Otocinclus eat snail eggs. This helps keep my snail population in balance.

Great video content. We appreciate these info.

I love my 6 snails! They each have their special quirks and habits. One of my Nerite snails lays eggs on the Rabbit snail. Needless to say, his attractive appearance is interrupted by all the eggs. I love how the Mystery snail races up to the waterline, then let’s go and falls to the substrate. Rinse, spin, repeat!! HaHa! They’re just fun to watch. Thanks, Zenzo, for the positive press about these fascinating aquatic inhabitants.

I like them. Thank you for the great video including the photo. I learned something new!

I loved this one, thank you, Zenzo. Snails for the win! I like the positive things they contribute to my tanks. They are also fun to watch. Who knew snails would glide so beautifully thru water the way they do? Or just "parachute" down to the bottom of the tank when wanted? 😍 I also choose to "thank them for their service" as I chuck them into tanks. I breed them and feed all but the Mystery and Spixi snails to my many puffers! 😳😁🐌🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐌

Beautiful to see! Tearing up a little over here, a fitting tribute 🥹

I just brought home a mix of three types/ colors of mystery snails to add to my gene pool... I got ten total... I breed them, along ramshorn, Malaysian trumpet snails, and assassin snails, for my local stores, I sell to three stores, but they're far enough apart to not be competing interests... thanks for the snail boosting content...! Keep up the good work...!

Nice video. I like nerites and ramshorn. Thanks

I'd only heard fear & hatred of snails until Cory advocated for them. Now I have multiple kinds of snails in every tank on purpose. Now I'm an advocate for snails.

Ty for the video, I have a 55 gallon tank and there are two small pond snails that must have come on my plants, I was going to take them out but I enjoy watching them more than my fish,, they're slowly getting bigger and I think they're cute,,, btw you said they don't go after healthy plants but I used to have a bunch of golden mystery snails that loved it when I put a fresh lettuce leaf in for them,, it was like a buffet😂

I love snails Especially ramshorn s

Until recently I didn’t want them interrupting the view in most of my tanks. I recently got a bag of 50+ ramshorn snails at my local fish club for my puffer however and decided to throw them all in the new bigger tank I’m setting up for him to work on wood biofilm instead of a breeding bucket. With so many in there I actually noticed their behavior. They are surprisingly fascinating to watch so I may have changed my mind.

I still have snails, but I would recommend some larger "pest" snails for goldfish tanks. Had 'em in there about four years ago when I still had that tank sat up. The goldfish would leave the older ones alone, but would eat some of the younger ones. Anything that wasn't eaten up by the golfdish would end up in the filter and grow from there.

I like snails. I keep mystery snails because they’re fun, bladder snails for algae control, and Malaysian trumpets for substrate help.

I love snails! Intentionally put them in all my tanks I used them as scavengers rather than catfish or loaches because honestly those are a whole another fish that you have to actually feed. although I feed my snail once a week at night. Compared to when I had catfish I had to feed every other day and they still did not eat rotten plant matter!

Great explanation 💪🏽

Thanks! You answered one of my long standing questions. I started out just a year ago and within no time I had a boatload of snails. Now I have very few...I learned to feed less and or the tank got established. So as I added fish my food waste went down. Voila, fewer snails.

I love my snails!!!!! I put them in every pond and tank!

I've always liked snails (non aquarium) . I didn't do my research when getting back into fish and man o man. Lol! Didn't know they populate like they do. But I dig them.

I put a few Big snails in a tank, without a Lid, cuz I’m growing plants off the top of the water and one morning, I came in and found it missing!!! It had crawled out of the tank and fell to the floor below, cracking its shell around the edge. I put it back in the water and thought, that was a rough ride, surely it wouldn’t do it again! Couple days, it did it again, so we had to modify the Lid to still grow the plants from the top, with the roots in the water and keep the snail in the tank! 🐚 It broke its shell worse the second time. I took some straight edged toenail clippers to it, to smooth the edge. Thank God, it didn’t break back so far that it could not survive! Peace, watching God’s Snails!!! 🙌 🥰🤴🥰 🙌

I have a mix of snails. I got some mystery snails, nerite snails, assassin snails, and my favorite the Malaysian trumpet snail.

Good timing because my rams horns have exploded in my guppy/swordtail 55gallon planted tank 😅 luckily I have some Amazon puffers and clown loaches in other tanks so free food for them

I never enjoyed snails until Cory explained them better. Now, I enjoy them. They're part of the ecosystem; and something else to watch in my tank.

Bought live bunch plants until I got "pest" snails. Couldn't bring myself to buy them, but needed the snails! MTS snails, bladder snails, nerite snails, mystery snails, they're all fantastic.

seeing how they multiply even in places they're not wanted , i just wonder how snails haven't taken over the whole world yet

Great explanation about snails thank you, Got guppies & Shrimps and snails, They are fascinating, But brought a plant did not wash it like did others I got and think it was full of snails so been using cucumber to catch them, Just keeping the ones I want.

I like micro curly snails. Ramshorns in my experience always get out of control. Mystery snails are very fun if they don't breed lol🎉

Very interesting and informative video. Thanks for making it. Personally, I think snails are fascinating and I like having them in an aquarium. However, they can cause a lot of problems with filters. I have endured an explosive population of ramshorn snails. What a mess.

I love my snails 🐌. Great clean up crew. I would love to get the Malaysian trumpet snails for the reasons you mentioned. I’ve had the best luck with rams horn snails.

I'm new and purposely overfeeding my new shrimp colonies. To keep the snails under control, I remove snails that are in the food bowl only. If they are lazy and go sit in the food bowl, then they are outa hear.... lol

I love snails, I went out of my way to get several different types of pest snails. I let them live but sometimes feed them to the cichlids in my turtle tank. The only tank that is snail free other than one assassin snail is the tank that I breed plecos in. Now that I think of it I think I have another tank that has no snails because it also has cichlids

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My favorite snails are mystery and Malaysian trumpets. I had a 29 breeding tank for mystery snails but I found out the hard way that guppies like escargo. The guppies wiped out almost all of them. The Malaysian trumpets I like them them because they most came out at night and I didn't have a to see them except for a few during the day. I enjoyed both of them and for they appearances too.

Have Malaysian Trumpet snails and bladder snails in my 40 breeder community tank. Along with three huge rabbit snails. Hardly ever see the trumpet snails because they are under the substrate in the soil that I have capped with eco complete gravel. The rabbit snails are basically like the gourami, betta, and mollies I have in the tank, as in they are part of the community. They are really a showpiece more than anything. They are all at least four inches. But the bladder and trumpet snails keep all my plants healthy. Have not had to get rid of a single snail yet and the tank has been going for almost a year.

I like snails. I have bladder snails, my green cory and betta eat them. Plus I now have a male nerite. I had a fema6doe 6 years. Still have remnants of old eggs on rocks and wood ;)

I love snails 🐌 except for bladder snails, but unfortunately, I have bladder snails because of plant's I got a while ago. And they get out of control sometimes. I have nerite snails those are my favorite snail I don't mind the tiny eggs. they arein good for my tanks. Thank you for sharing.

I like the smaller snails, ramshorn,bladder(pest) snails and I keep them in 2 of my fully planted tanks. I'll also add that those 2 tanks I rarely have to do any cleaning other than a water change once in a while.

I love snails. Planning to setup a tank geared toward them. I have about 3 in each of my tanks (mystery, nerite and Rabbit). 😢

I enjoy there just cool to watch

First visible animal in my current tank was a bladder snail, I think he was on one of the plants. He was visible about a week into the cycling of a brand new tank. 'Turbo' survived cycling and the introduction of fish to have several visible offspring. The first fish was a dwarf gourami that picked baby snails off the glass and hardscape. It ignored the adults though, so there were always more hatchlings. Then I added a shoal of 8 glowlight tetras, who seem to completely ignore the snails. Tried a trio of nerites, all died within 2 weeks. Also my gourami died shortly after the nerites and I had it for 6 months. I don't know why. They might or might not be related. The glowlight tetras are all doing fine though, and the bladder snail population has rebounded slightly without the gourami there to eat hatchilings. I might add a betta or another gourami, or just a few more glowlights.

They are funny to watch in my tank. I like when they climb plants n plop down

Love them. Clean up that tank little buddies!

I just bought a couple of apple snails, onion snails and bumblebee snails

Management can be a challenge . . . but I love them just as much as the fish!

I have many kind of snails in my tanks. I love them and still want some more species.

I dont mind them as long as not too many

I miss my apple snail that thing was the size of my fist was very sociable almost reminds me of my Oscar. When I come up to the tank it makes its way to the top of the tank and I hand feed it was too cool. But unfortunately I believe they are illegal to have now.

I honestly don't mind them I got some travelers from a plant and my tank is doing better my bristle comes out more I'm loving it

The best tanks always have snails. I find them to be a good indicator of tank quality. Its funny to me when I see people freak out. You think your fish wouldn't be swimming around snails and algae in the wild!?

Great video although I really dont like when people say "it's natural" about something in an aquarium, as total oblitarion of an ecosystem is also natural, and when a "natural" proclaimer takes it down a notch they can maybe see that fact. Anyone that builds an aquarium has a desired image(desired outcome) they wish to achieve with it, and claiming otherwise is hypocritical I would say to them lol. Getting back on the topic of snails however I have integrated ramshorn in a few containers to grow plants faster since they are truly incredible gardeners, they outright reprocess unwanted algae into available nutrients for the plants and the algae just can't keep up. I am also in the process of trying to use MTS since they bear their own young, with supposedly much higher survival rate for my purpose, in order to allow dwarf rasboras to feed on those fresh and juicy MTS babies once born. That is still on going until I witness it myself. I did attempt buying some rabbit snails which are the only snail I would ever deem worthy in a main aquarium due to their slow reproduction and I couldn't care less about them munching a bit on some plants, but I have had no success with them and I feel like I was either misguided on parameters for them or they were already pretty unhealthy when I got them as their shells have very visible pitting trails. It is sad that where I live they are not so readily available and at 20$ a pop they are quite the mighty expense for a snail, moreso a possibly ill/damaged snail. They are not dead according to your video as I don't smell anything noticeable yet, but I took them out of an 86f tank with PH of 8 and next to no flow.......to a PH of 7.2 and 74-78f environment and I noticed they finally started moving after like 2 weeks of barely any movement. They had access to a half submerged platform as well which allowed them to easily remain submerged or breathe air in case the environment required adaptation new water parameters without forcing it too rapidly, something for which most people don't even go that far as I have seen on youtube and forums. I am still unsure this is even good for them as I would love to see them thrive in my higher temps and higher PH tank because I was slowly raising the PH in it over weeks. Also, having seen kuhli loaches devour smaller variety snails or adult shrimp if hungry enough, I am unsure if they remain in my main tank, if their babies would ever survive. Either way I do agree with you that snails bring up benefits to tanks, given there is something to control them or they are used for a very specific purpose. But in most cases they will be pests for a lot of people cuz it s way too easy to overfeed 😅

Before I knew about types of snails I bought one to clean the tank. Suddenly I had lots of snails, then they were everywhere by the hundreds no matter how many I took out and I couldn’t get rid of them. I finally had to toss everything except the fish and start over with a clean tank.

I do love my ramshorns and trumpets but they dooo murder my corydora eggs which is a pain when i like to put eggs in a mulmy tank to hatch 🐣

I like them. I sometimes crush some as the fish will eat their meat. I keep some Nerites and bladder snails that arrived with plants 🌱.

After ten years worth of nerite egg debris on my glass I had to switch from using an ice scraper for the monthly scraping to a razor one.

I can't get enough snails. I love them as much as my fishes!

I like mystery snails! They’re adorable and quirky 😅 I dislike MTS as they reproduce fast and furious! I only have a betta in that tank and spot feed it so I know I’m not over feeding and yet there’s a trillion of them! 😳

I love them except for in my shrimp tank. They out compete the shrimp for food sometimes. I have MTS in my shrimp tank and try to get rid of them as much as I can.

I am all about the snails!

I enjoy the Mystery snails, all others can stay away.

I just got a 40 gal tank with three goldfish not knowing they are a really dirty fish. I’m about to buy at least 6 snails❗️❗️my tank definitely needs a cleaning crew

Ramshorn snails are pretty cool and good at cleaning the tank but they breed way to fast and the shells plug up the water change syphon

Cory Catfish eat nerite snail eggs. I have observed them doing it and in my tanks that have cories and nerites I never see nerite eggs.

It's a love / hate relationship... LOL...I have mystery snails and ramshorn snails. I really love the mystery snails! Ramshorn...love them until they go crazy because I overfeed the tank. I think I need some pea puffers.... LOL

Please remind your viewers to NEVER release snails into the wild (or just dump them outside after you clean your aquarium). In many places, aquarium snails like apple snails have become invasive pests threatening native species and ecosystems. If you don’t want them anymore, trade them with other hobbyists or dispose of them properly. Please remind your viewers to be responsible hobbyists.

It's been a while since I had a tank. But I used to get infections of these tiny snails that bred like crazy and my big fish didn't eat them. Did NOT know of the cook zuchini trick back then.

what about the snails crawing out is that common?

I like my 3 🐌 but not reproduction so I was recommended a type of fish 🐠 that will eat the eggs. We’ll see what happens moving forward.

I have a 10 gallon guppy tank with cherry shrimp and several dozen snails. It must be a healthy tank because the fish shrimp and snails breed like crazy. With the snails there's so many different colors. From pink, white, blue and a combination of colors. Why did this happen? 90% are ramshorn. Another tank has brown ramshorn.

I like snails - I have nerites as algae eaters and malayasian trumpet snails to aerate the substrate for planted tanks. I thinks spixi snails look cool and are easy to breed, but eats plants so don't keep them any more. Also, never had good luck with mystery snails.

I have some snails what do they eat as I don’t have algae I’m trying to make some algae by leaving the light on a bit

What kind of freshwater aquarium fish eats snails, or worse, simply bites off the protruding eye stalks?

I could hear my frontosa eating their resident snail population every night .

Love snails

My question is do you need a lid? I know some snails lay eggs above water but do I need to worry about escape artists.

I love nerite snails, but i think something has been killing them. The only suspects are angelfish or a powder blue dwarf guarami, but i do still see some of my nerites. Which one do you think is the snail killer?

One of the clips in this had an insane amount of hydra growing on the glass. Can you make a video on them? Are they actually bad for aquariums?

Snails are cool. They show up for free and help clean up after themselves and others.

I just added assassin snails to my Aquariums... i 4 planted tanks and always get Malaysia trumpet snails...the assassins to controll unwanted blooms

I keep the population down by simply hand picking them, then tossing them into the yard. Somehow they keep coming back but I just try to keep the number controlable.

Apple snails are as big as an apple and would drown in an aquarium. In Florida, where they are in the wild, they are always near water but mostly land snails.

I would love them.but my tanks are breeding tanks so 🤷‍♀️

I have ramshorns in a 10 gallon betta tank… I suspect he eats a fair amount of the babies. Is it harmful to just leave the empty shells in the tank? Ps, I don’t mind snails!

As someone who is new to the hobby, and hearing about, just don't overfeed...it's very hard for a new fishkeeper to know what is the right amount of food and what is actually overfeeding. Some foods sink very quickly, so you will always see some food sink to the bottom. Most foods say only feed what they will consume within a couple minutes.

Snails are part of the ecosystem and I have no objection to having them in my tanks. Just control how much you feed and they are generally not a problem.

What’s the best snails for an African cichlid or Mbuna tank?

I'd like snails, but I have clown loaches in my tank, and they like eating snails.

I have Malaysian Trumpet snails in all my tanks. If they get out of hand I just scoop and dump.

Just a quick question. What are those yellow things on the glass at 3:24? I’ve noticed them in my own aquarium and am just wondering if they’re ok to have in the tank. I assume they are because all my fish and shrimp are still doing good.