Bladder snails

A little, easygoing snail that loves algae and is therefore a good cleaner. Very active during the day, it is interesting to watch and readily reproduces.

Bladder snails are, along with pond snails, the most common snails in our streams and ponds.
Unlike pond snails, bladder snails do not attack live plants, which makes them a better choice for aquariums.
Avoid collecting these snails in the wild for a simple reason: they can host certain parasite life cycles involving fish and could therefore infect your tank inhabitants. It takes several generations of breeding without fish to break these parasite life cycles.
Aside from this point, the bladder snail is a charming little snail that is active during the day, small in size, and very prolific when conditions allow.
Its only serious predator is the glossiphonia, a small, harmless leech that we offer to help control its population when it becomes invasive.
Bladder snails do an important job of cleaning, especially by eating algae on aquarium glass, and also, incidentally, by disposing of dead fish and various other creatures. They multiply when algae are abundant and decline when the environment becomes less rich in algae. They are therefore an excellent indicator.
There is no need to feed them, as the biological cycle as it is provides enough for them.
They are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both sexes, but they need a partner to reproduce.
Unlike malaysian Trumpet Snail, bladder snails also breathe atmospheric air at the surface. They therefore regularly come up to breathe.
They do well outdoors as well as indoors, even in winter during severe frosts.

Approx. weight: 30g