 
*Malaysian Trumpet Snail*
Pictures posted are adults, parents, juvenile fish, or in stock items for sale.
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A small but very valuable and useful resident of aquariums.
They are livebearers that do not require two parents. The individual snail carries both male and female organisms, so that it can reproduce by itself, MTS are very tolerant of just about any water conditions. After dark, they come up out of the gravel and spread across the tank, performing their janitorial duties. They eat algae, including hard-to-control hair algae. They also clean and aerate the substrate, preventing pockets of anaerobic bacterial formation, which can produce deadly Hydrogen Sulfide gas. Their burrowing keeps the substrate loose, but they don’t disturb even delicate plant roots. MTS regulate their own numbers. When food is plentiful, they multiply. When food is scarce, they stop multiplying. Thus, your tank will eventually reach a point of equilibrium, where you have just enough MTS for your tank, and no more. They will rarely reach plague proportions unless you heavily overfeed your fish. |
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