Name: Bladder Snail (Physella acuta), BREDBY, Aquatic Arts
Brand: Aquatic Arts
SKU: BLADDERSNAIL20
Price: 16.99 USD
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The remarkably prolific Bladder Snail is excellent for eating algae, scavenging, and sifting substrate! We are proud to offer specimens bred in house at Aquatic Arts!

The Bladder Snail (Physella acuta) is an excellent scavenger and substrate sifter that is also a voracious algae eater that does not eat or bother ornamental plants. That being said, they will feed on dead or decaying plant matter. This hardy snail is often introduced to the aquarium by hitchhiking on plants. This snail is viewed by many as a pest, but can be a quite beneficial addition to your aquariums clean up crew. It is important not to overfeed when keeping this snail as they will quickly repopulate if there is an excess of food.

Feeding and care is very easy for the hardy Bladder Snail. It requires the same maintenance and conditions as most tropical aquarium snails and should never be exposed to copper. It will eat nearly any high-quality dry and frozen foods, but it will also feed heavily on algae, biofilm, and decaying plant matter in the aquarium. This freshwater riverine species will thrive in a variety of water parameters, but its shell will reportedly gray and lose color in excessively acidic pH levels.

Many hobbyists also use Bladder Snails as a live food source for Pufferfish, Loaches, and a number of other species. They are an excellent food source as they have softer shells than most snail species and breed rapidly.

Please Note: This species is livebearing and is extraordinarily prolific. With proper care, its population can be managed and it is an extremely useful scavenger. However, it can explode in population and become somewhat of a "nuisance" when unmanaged, especially in aquariums where overfeeding occurs regularly.

What We Like About These Snails:

Completely peaceful
Unique, conical shell with variable coloration
Will reproduce in the aquarium
Safe with all plants and excellent for sifting substrate
Excellent scavenger and algae eater

RECOMMENDED TANK PARAMETERS:

Temperature: 64° - 84° F (17° - 29° C)
pH: 7.0 - 8.0
Minimum tank size: 3 - 5 gallons

CARE GUIDELINES:

Diet: Scavenger that feeds continually. Requires very little feeding in a well-established aquarium containing algae, biofilm, or decaying plant matter. In less mature aquariums, high quality dry foods with high plant content can be sparingly fed daily.
Social behavior: Peaceful
Origin: Europe and North America
Average adult size: 1 - 1.5 inches (2.5 - 3.8 cm)
Average purchase size: .5 - 1 inch (1.3 - 5 cm)

All Aquatic Arts brand plants and animals come with a 100% live arrival guarantee, plus free email support!

For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.

UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.

Shipping Schedule for this service

UPS 1 Day: Monday through Thursday

Current Handling Time:

1-9 business days

Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.

Shipping Rate

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