Lighting snails are one of the best large snails for large FWLR tanks and aquariums.
If you have a FWLR type saltwater aquarium set up you are going to want to get some of these lightning welks.
Lightning snails grow large and will consume any uneaten meaty fish food left over after feeding time.
Lightning snails provide an additional benefit to the FWLR tank, they constantly burrow through sand beds and gravel substrate keeping your bottom clean and free of unwanted nuisance coating algae and diatoms.
Lightning Whelk live snail for sale for saltwater aquariums, named Busycon sinistrum.
Beautiful shell that constantly stirs the sand bed and substrate in the aquarium.
This snail is a carnivore so it eats meaty foods such as frozen oysters and clams, frozen shrimp.
Will eat left over uneaten fish food that falls to the sandbed.
Of course I had to buy this for my marine biology student’s tank. We pick them up all the time at the beach and I thought it would be super cool for them to see a live one. This specimen is very large and it moves around the sand. We don’t usually see it moving that we noticed that it has move from one place to the other.
I thought it would be fun to have this creature, since he is our Texas state shell and so the students can see that he is a live creature. He was very nicely sized. He’s not all that active but that’s not the fault of the vendor. Very pleased. .
Very awsome addition to my tank. Think this snail packs a hemi! It moves!
