What's a good replacement for astrea snails?

[mtnsky]

Their "falling off the glass and unable to get up" trick is greatly appreciated by my reef's other inhabitants. Mainly these two:

 

 

I do enjoy an astrea snail's slow methodical algae eating in contrast to my single turbo snails flyby job. Do ceriths or nerite snails do a good job and not fall off the glass and wait to be eaten?

[Degener8]

I like both cerith and nerite. I prefer dward cerith over the normal ones.. and medium to small nerites as generally smaller than your hermits would prefer as houses.. if you have hermits.

[Bill Nye]

I like both cerith and nerite. I prefer dward cerith over the normal ones.. and medium to small nerites as generally smaller than your hermits would prefer as houses.. if you have hermits.

 

I really like cerith snails, but they are the number 1 target of hermits everywhere. I really want to pick up some dwarf cerith so they wont get picked on as much and can fit into smaller nooks.

 

Personally I have had bad luck with nerites. I found them to be super lazy and to try to get out of the tank alot. I hear that some of the nerites in the hobby are found in intertidal zones so they have a propensity to try to get out of the water.

 

I also agree about astrea. I dont use them anymore in my tanks because they are stupid and just fall over and get eaten all the time. I really like turbo snails but they get way to big. I currently have one right now but he is starting to get too large. I bought him when he was like the size of a nickle maybe but now hes getting to be bigger than a quarter.

[LogansRunRx]

red-banded trochus spp.

big fan of these guys.

 

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_di...&pcatid=564

[Rem]

I've got a ton of cerith snails (both dwarf and florida) from Reefcleaners that seem to do a good job.

[mtnsky]

Thanks for the advice, everyone! Definitely need to get some dwarf ceriths, and some banded trochus look good too!