nerites in the 180?

[ingg]

Yes or no?

Cannot decide if the eggs are worth the algae control, but am leaning yes and driving home with 6 in a bag right now.

Drop them in or no? What would you all do?

[rich_one]

I would drop them in.

or not... and say "rich, need some more nerites?" lol...

they leave lots of eggs? where? I do not see any yet.

[Ltrepeter2000]

Yes, and Cristy is right about the eggs diminishing significantly over time

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

Dude. 6 nerites in a 180? 6 = 29G tank.
I'd go with atleast 30.

[DelawareJim]

Yeah, you need to go way heavier on the nerites. And if you decide to add Amano shrimp, I'd go at least 40-50 if those too.

You're going to find you need stuff in orders of magnitude compared to what you're used to.

Cheers.
Jim

[maddog10]

Ok, explain to me why nerites are good. I have tried to kill every snail that i come across.

[Aaron]

Olive nerite snails are one of the best, if not the best algae eaters you can put in a planted tank. They will completely clean Anubias leaves of all traces of green spot and green dust algae. Then they'll go to town on the glass. They don't eat plants at all and they don't reproduce in freshwater. They're also large enough that most loaches seem to leave them alone.

[maddog10]

What water conditions do they prefer. I have a higher pH than most and mild hardness. I seem to remember a post about getting a hole in the shell and gluing it shut.

[Jeff120]

THey would do better in higher PH, the acidic PH is what causes the shell to erode.

They are the best algae eaters, I wish I could keep them alive, I have a new theory on death, see my other post about gluing them