Snails running out of food?

[Jeroen1975]

I purchased snails and to my amazement they stripped everything almost clean in two days..
So now I'm lokking for tips on keeping them feeded. How do you peeps go about that?

 

[Sophie"s mom]

I am interested in this as well! I have not bought many yet, as I have not turned on my lights yet, but I do worry that because of this, when I get a CUC and turn lights on my CUC will not have much to eat

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

how many did you add and for what size tank, and how old is your tank? I only add a few snails at a time, as needed, I buy more as notice more algae.

I find there is a misconception that clean up crew should be added to a tank in abundance as soon as its finished cycling, but then they often die of hunger.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

how many did you add and for what size tank, and how old is your tank? I only add a few snails at a time, as needed, I buy more as notice more algae.

I find there is a misconception that clean up crew should be added to a tank in abundance as soon as its finished cycling, but then they often die of hunger.

I agree. With everything I have researched, CUC should be built up slowly, I want to avoid as much of the “ugly” phase as possible, that is why I am leaving my lights off for the 1st 3 months. Then slowly build my CUC. Iif you actually add the “recommended “ CUC by tank size, it will be WAY TOO MUCH,

 

[Jeroen1975]

how many did you add and for what size tank, and how old is your tank? I only add a few snails at a time, as needed, I buy more as notice more algae.

I find there is a misconception that clean up crew should be added to a tank in abundance as soon as its finished cycling, but then they often die of hunger.

I added a lot of baby trochus about two weeks ago, and recently 2 turbo's, a scutus unguis, another mithrax (they are teaming up, ) and two of those spiny shell snails. But since the turbo's everything is clean and sedentary snails that were allready in there (two trochus) are starting to move to the rockwork again. Oh... it's about 20 gallons and runnig about 4/5 months.. I'm not trying to add as mi h as I can but I think animals are cool to have so. They are a bit more of an inpact than I suspected though so now I thinking.... dirtying up the tank or placing a rock with nori every week or.... trying to find a baseline I guess.

 

[kevgib67]

I’ve rubber banded nori to a rock for my urchin and sinking algae pellets for my conch.

 

[TokenReefer]

Don't clean the glass if you're worried; usually the fastest surface for algae films to grow. Should have a film in a day or two if you have nutrients in the water. I let my back glass go to the snails so to speak and never clean it...

 

[Garf]

I purchased snails and to my amazement they stripped everything almost clean in two days..
So now I'm lokking for tips on keeping them feeded. How do you peeps go about that?

Pick of the tank would be good.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

All cuc/ clean up crew works for you in regards to your aquarium. If you have algae problems or other these will help you in the long run especially glass.
You can supplement with algae wafers, crab cuisine pellets, nori also but it gets Messy.
You could cause algae to grow if your happy to deal with consequences by turning your white lights up more but it's your aquarium.

For reference I have multiple snails species along with tuxedo urchin so I provide algae via light to feed., it takes along time to fine tune algae growth