r/Aquariums • u/otterboi123 • May 28 '24

Begging for snails Saltwater/Brackish

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u/Emuwarum snailsnailsnail Jun 01 '24

.... it's kinda weird that twice I've called you to help explain to someone why you can't just plop neritids in brackish and breed them, and both times they've responded rudely. 

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u/AmandaDarlingInc Neritidae Snientist Jun 01 '24

It is SO weird because it only happens over here haha I guess I should have read the rest of the thread maybe? Did I miss some sensitive context somewhere?

Part of me sort of gets the immediate disbelieve that they're all wild caught because they're so readily available and they're relatively cheap... but no one in the store is gonna tell you that only a fraction of them successfully acclimate. They're harvested en masse, trafficked cheaply and sold as a commodity.