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I actually don't even have any snails in my tank.. Although I am planning to get some, eventually. The tank is full of algae and I do periodically clean the tank with those tank scraper things which stress the shrimp pretty bad (I know, I know, bad owner), but at least the shrimp can eat it a lot e...

10 snails will be fine, and should help with the algae and your substrate. Are you feeding at all? If you are, your best course is to stop feeding until the algae overgrowth is gone. It sounds like your snails and shrimp will be well fed for a while. The snails will self-limit their population acco...

The snails are very small, so ten shouldn't be a problem. You kind of have no choice on the snails. It’s sold as a pack of 10. And that’s fine for the tank. I have a 1 gal at work with it and 10 shrimps in there. My 3 gal at home has 10 snails and 21 shrimps in there. The snails have since reproduc...

Hi all, first time posting but I’ve done a ton of reading here in the forum! I bought an ecosphere from a flea market about 2yrs ago never knowing how terrible it was until I started doing my research. I wanted to switch to a larger tank and add more to the two shrimps I had originally bought to giv...