Bladder snails (Promotion -20%)

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A small, unassuming snail that loves algae and is therefore a good cleaner. Very active during the day, it is interesting to observe and reproduces readily.

Bladder snails are, along with pond snails, the most widespread snails in our streams and ponds.
Unlike pond snails, bladder snails do not attack living plants, which makes them preferable in aquariums.
These snails should not be collected in the wild for one simple reason: they can host certain parasite life cycles involving fish and could therefore contaminate your aquarium inhabitants. Several generations of breeding without fish are needed to break these parasite life cycles.
Apart 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 glossiphonia, a harmless little leech that we offer to limit its population when it becomes invasive.
Bladder snails do important cleaning work, particularly by consuming algae from aquarium glass, but also incidentally by making fish carcasses and various other small creatures disappear. When algae are present, they multiply, and they decline when the environment becomes poorer in algae. They are therefore an excellent indicator.
There is no need to feed them, since the biological cycle as it is provides enough food for them.
They are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both sexes, but two are needed for them to reproduce.
Unlike malaysian Trumpet Snail, bladder snails also breathe atmospheric air at the surface. They therefore regularly come to the surface to breathe.
They are comfortable outdoors as well as indoors, even in winter during severe frost.

Approx. weight: 30g