Dwarf Cerith Snail

50 second video of snails most likely natica chemnitzi and cerithium muscarum feeding on the sea floor in the gulf of california puerto peñasco mexico. They are known to eat diatoms algae cyano and detritus in the substrate on the rockwork and on the glass. These snails will consume diatoms cyano film algae detritus and hair algae in the substrate as well as on rocks and to some extent the glass in your aquarium.

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They will spend time on your substrate nibbling on detritus or they will be found crawling up the glass or plants and rocks searching for algae.

Dwarf cerith snail. 55 gallon mixed reef current dual satellite series lighting aquac remora skimmer fluval 305 filter. The dwarf cerith is a hardy miniature snail that burrows in the sand bed in addition to spending time on the rocks and glass. You can t really compare them to trochus as they don t spend most of their life in the sand bed like a cerith.

Unfortunately they were laid right over the silicone which. Cerithiidae common name the cerithiids or ceriths is a large family of medium sized marine gastropods in the clade sorbeoconcha. Contact us 1 800 334 3699 help.

It is reported that they will consume diatoms. Its form resembles an eastern spiral ziggurat tower with thick walls convex turns spikes and swellings. Their shells have a sharp and narrow shape.

The point of cerith snails is that they burrow in the sand and stir it as well as consume detritus. This recognizable pattern is created by cerith snails not the snail you see munching to the right. Description of the cerith snail.

How good of a cleaner are they. The cerith snail cerithium sp is one of many algae and detritus eating ornamental invertebrates available at liveaquaria for your saltwater marine aquarium. These smaller cerith snails range in size from a half and inch to almost 1 but are slender.

I ve seen this pattern appear in my tanks on occasion. The thousands of white dots left in a serpentine pattern are cerith eggs which when left unbothered will result in cerith babies. Cerith snails are interesting for their shell which is very unlike the shells of strombus trochus and turbo shells.

Because of their versatility and hardiness they are our favorite species of cleaner. Our cerith snails are collected off the west coast of florida. They are found on muddy grass beds where they help to keep slime and nuisance algae off of the sea grasses.