Bumblebee snails?

[aznr3m1x]

Aside from getting cerith and nassaurius snails..thinking about bumblee snails...they look cool lol. But should i get them? heard they can sift sand aswell scavage for food. Anyone has any experience with them? Thnx

[minipigg]

Aside from getting cerith and nassaurius snails..thinking about bumblee snails...they look cool lol. But should i get them? heard they can sift sand aswell scavage for food. Anyone has any experience with them? Thnx

 

I have a couple BB Snails in my 20L. I intend to put a couple more in as soon as the lfs gets them in. They are cool to look at. They are basically a black nassarius snail with yellow strips. Only mine arent always in the substrate. They like to hang on rocks but seem to sleep allot during the day and are active mainly at night. They have been hanging in the Yellow Polyp colony eating the algae. I say get them.... they are cool and you see them more then the nassaruis snails.

[Osprey]

I got four bumblebees and four nassarius at the same time (for an 8 gallon tank). They're both more active at night.

 

During the day, the bumblebees hang out on the rocks and hardly move, but they are usually easy to find. They do look cool, and they do work on the rocks and substrate both.

[aznr3m1x]

cool...alright imma go out and grab some thnx peoples!

[bank_vault]

Bumblebee snaills are cool as long as you get the smooth shelled ones with more than one yellow stripe. If they have only one stripe and the shell is interconnected squares/rectangles then pass. Those are tank destroyers.

[chrisstankevitz]

I disagree that bumblebees are like nessarius snails. They do not live in the substrate and they do not eat dead/dying critters.

 

BB snails look good at first, but all three of mine have white crust growing on their shells. I think it's calcium.

 

Mine only come out at night.

 

Chris

[minipigg]

I disagree that bumblebees are like nessarius snails. They do not live in the substrate and they do not eat dead/dying critters.

 

BB snails look good at first, but all three of mine have white crust growing on their shells. I think it's calcium.

 

Mine only come out at night.

 

Chris

 

Mine dig in the sand bed and I see them half buried at times during day light hours. Lately they have been hanging on a rock I have a colony of yellow polyps. They have consumed almost all of the hair algae and are now moving back towards the substrate. One had some coraline algae growing on its shell but thats now gone and they look just like in the photo on:

http://petsolutions.com/images/200/170950.jpg

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=565

http://www.etropicals.com/product/prod_Dis...amp;pCatId=1355

 

So far they have been nothing but good for my tank.