Re: Bleach treatment and 'blue' snail

To: Aquatic-Plants <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
Subject: Re: Bleach treatment and 'blue' snail
From: David Webb <DAWB.DSKPO33B at dskbgw1_itg.ti.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 14:33:07 CDT

>Since as everyone knows, I have been keeping up with animals that eat
>beard algae for over 10 years. It would be nice to know that there is
>something to add to the list of SAE and Yumato-numa-ebi. I have never
>heard of a 'blue' snail. See what you can find out about its scientific
>name, where is comes from, if it is described in any aquarium books and
>what other common names it may go by.

Brown apple snails eat the long variety of red algae.  I don't know whether 
that's beard or brush.  They don't appear to eat the short variety.  From what 
I've seen, the long variety grows in my tank under high light conditions when 
there isn't enough CO2 available.  It's about an inch long and grows in mats 
covering the leaves of my plants.  The color is a very dark reddish black.  The 
short variety grew in my tank when I wasn't using as much light.  It attached 
itself to fixtures and to the older leaves of my plants.  It was the same color,
 but had a velour texture.  This algae turned a very light green when I upped 
the lighting on the tank (my observation).  These may be two different growth 
patterns of the same algae.  I don't know, but the apple snails didn't seem to 
make as much of a dent in it.

David W. Webb
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