how/what do i feed my snails?

[beefjerky402]

i have some astrea snails, nassarius, and a fighting conch. they did too good of a job and cleaned all my algea, now what do i feed them and how do i go about feeding them?

[dharned]

whats your tank specs? I would imagine they would be fine as your tank is always producing algae. Run your lights longer and you'll definately have more algae

 

I appologize for not having a more "scientific" bit of advice for you, but since no one else has replied...enh why not.

[luckybaker]

Just let him them be. There will always be algae for them to eat. Up until about a month ago (when I moved my tank and started a mini-cycle) I never had a real problem with algae, cleaned the front glass like once ever 3 weeks. I never once worried about my snails and hermits. They are still doing fine, however, the last month has been like Thanksgiving for them. X)

[Korbin]

Nassarius snails eat dead stuff. Sometimes I'll sink some food pellets to the bottom for them to munch on. But they never seem to starve when I don't feed them.

 

Astreas can probably be fed dried seaweed like nori. Thats what I give my turbo and trochus to snack on - I'm afraid my turbo will starve in my 15. Have you ever seen an astrea eat though? Didn't think so. I thought all astreas do is sit around and wait to die.

 

Conchs, in my experience, don't eat film algae. But I have seen one eat up red hair algae until it was gone and then it died.

[beefjerky402]

no my astreas eat all the time. when i had my algea boom, it was like an all you can eat buffet for them. i would just sit there and watch them eat. even now that i dont have any more algea on my glass, they still are trying to eat off the glass.