Which Snails Do What?

[fretfreak13]

Getting my first CUC, and ording from SWF. I only have about thirty bucks, so it's not going to be much. I was thinking these guys and one of these and a few snails. I have a 29 rectangle tank. What snails should I get? How many?
So far with the emerald and hermits the total is $18.48. Keep in mind I have to pay for shipping too, and I get that 20% off first livestock order thing too.
Any ideas?

 

[olemiss]

When my 30 was a horse tank I had about 15 nerites, 30 cerith, 20 astrea, 20 nass. They all became octopus food. I prefer nerites simply because they can right themselves if they flip over but they live in tidal zones so they occasionally wander out of the tank. Remember that your hermits will kill some for their shells.

 

[fretfreak13]

I know, I have plenty of empty shells of all different sizes and styles in the tank already. Hopefully they'll ignore the poor little snails and go after those. I might try like...two of each for the time being. I know it's not enough, but I already have a few Stomatellas in there. I'll add more as I see fit, because at the moment there is no algea growth at all. = I'll have to figure out how to fix that.

 

[piccasotrigger]

Nassarius snails eat all the stuff that settles in the sand.Cerith snails eat algae and sift the sand, but i think there also the favorite target for hermits. Astrea eat algae although there not nearly as effective as the mexican turbos imo and they constantly fall upside down and die. Mexican tubos are algae eaters and get the job done the quickest the down side is they are not the most attractive,get big and knock over rocks and lastly like the astrea constantly fall and cant get right side up. I think nassarius snails are a must, but if your having algae problems and have a stable Lr formation mexican turbos eat insane amount of algae extremely quick.