Cerith snails are a great addition to your saltwater snail clean up crew. Get Cerith snails for sale for large reef tank aquarium for a complete nuisance algae clean up crew.
Why buy cerith snails to add to the clean up crew?
These Cerith snails are the colored type not the common black type that you see on the market.
Don't let the Cerith Snail's small adult size fool you. As well as having a gorgeous, elongated spiral shell, this active scavenger can consume large amounts of detritus, uneaten food, fish waste, and algae.
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Plus, this species of the Cerithium genus often burrows in your aquarium sand and helps maintain adequate oxygen levels in the substrate.Also will climb on rocks and glass and eat all types of unwanted algae like hair algae, slime algae, cyano bacteria.
Cerith snails are very active as a sand sifter to keep aquarium sand looking nice and white. Also as it goes around mixing and shifting the sand and gravel bed it provides aeration to the substrate of the reef aquarium which is very beneficial to the health of the bacteria layers. So this little snail has other major benefits to the aquarium besides eating nuisance algae.
Cerith snails will clean the crevices and cracks that larger snails can't get into.
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