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ambergris caye
04/16/2010, 09:22 PM
If the fish at Petco look okay, what are the chances that snails will carry something like ich into my tank and onto my fish. I constantly have to replenish my snail population. I'm trying not to get the mexican turbo snails anymore because they don't last long. They probably are used to colder water. Are the asteria (sp?) better than the nerite. They seem to last. I once made a big order of nassarius and they all died within a month. Maybe they were from colder water. I'm also staying away from hermits. They last but seem to pick more at things.

RBU1
04/17/2010, 06:14 AM
If you want to be 100% safe then yes you have to QT anything that goes in your tank. Snails would have to be in QT for 12 weeks to make sure the ich life cycle is complete.