Do snails carry diseases?

[Reef Devils]

do snails and other invertebrates carry diseases? Do they need to be quarantined? What snails/invertebrates eat diatoms?

 

[Crabby48]

Yes. Any hard surface is a place for ich to attach to.
A tank with saltwater and sand from Home Depot in a window with sunlight. The sand will go diatoms and feed snails. Any meat eater snails you can feed frozen. I find nori isn’t the way to keep them fed during qt. No meds needed

 

[Garf]

do snails and other invertebrates carry diseases? Do they need to be quarantined? What snails/invertebrates eat diatoms?

Potentially, yes. However, I think the likelyhood is an order of magnitude below adding a fish, for example.

 

[Crabby48]

Shrimp you can pull out rinse them off and add to display immediately after molt but I recommend letting them sit 8 weeks
Getting snails from fish less systems helps lower risk of transferring parasite

 

[Spare time]

I QT all snails at 81f for 30 days

 

[Reef Devils]

What snails eat diatoms

 

[Garf]

What snails eat diatoms

I don’t think they discriminate. Diatoms will get eaten by something, and dwindle. Copepods are good.