Nerite Or Pond Snails For Algae Control?

Hello,

I have a bit of an algae problem in my 10 gallon betta tank due to the fact that the only available spot for it was partially across from a window so I get a lot of algae on half of the glass and it's really annoying to clean. I bought a mystery snail before but it didn't do the best job dealing with the algae and removing it after it died was the worst experience (I'm really queasy and sensitive to smells) so I swore myself off snails for a while. I would prefer to get shrimp but I'm moving in about 4 months and I don't want to risk them dying in the process.((If any of you think cherry shrimp could survive a 6 hour drive I would prefer that tbh) I've read nerite snails are great for algae and I was thinking 2 would do the job. However, I also have a 1 gallon tank filled with pond snails that I've been breeding in preparation of getting a dwarf puffer for another tank so I wouldn't mind using some of them but I'm worried about them taking over the tank or not being effective enough. If anyone has personal experience with nerites or pond snails that would help so much.

Thank you!

 

Nerites are great! Clean the tank so quickly! Mystery snails don't usually eat algae of a glass, so that's probably why it didn't work. If by pond snails you mean pest snails, I don't recommend. They didn't clean my tank that well, and population quickly got out of hand.
By algae are you talking about hair algae? If so, I'm not sure if any nerites will eat that. Otherwise, I'm 100% for nerite snails

 

I don't have firsthand experience of nerites and I only had pond snails in a tank already housing ancistrus. But the nerite is often advocated as one of the best glass cleaners for small tanks.
Pondsnails are evil.

 

Nerites are great! Clean the tank so quickly! Mystery snails don't usually eat algae of a glass, so that's probably why it didn't work. If by pond snails you mean pest snails, I don't recommend. They didn't clean my tank that well, and population quickly got out of hand.
By algae are you talking about hair algae? If so, I'm not sure if any nerites will eat that. Otherwise, I'm 100% for nerite snails

yeah that's what I figured would happen with the pest snails. I don't know what type of algae it is but it isn't hair algae. It's brown and comes off really easily when I clean the tank but idk what it is.

 

yeah that's what I figured would happen with the pest snails. I don't know what type of algae it is but it isn't hair algae. It's brown and comes off really easily when I clean the tank but idk what it is.

As long as it's on the glass and a snail can go over it, I'm pretty sure the nerites can get at it. Usually my algae is green, and they always go for it.

 

If its brown blotches on the glass then its diatoms. Nerites loves that stuff.

 

I love my nerite snails! I have 5 of them and they're fantastic.

 

Pond snails are the cheap option but will require population control at some point. I have a tank with them and whil they don't look as cool as nerites they seem to get the job done. For population control I feed them to my goldfish tanks.

The RCS will survive a 6 hour drive if they are packed properly. Considering they survive 2-5 day shipping a 6 hour drive should be a walk in the park.

 

I would personally go with a nerite in a 10 gallon tank.

 

Nerite really cleaned up my algae, even a black algae. And they did not lay eggs all over, as some had warned they might.

 

thank you all I ended up buying some and they've been great!! didn't expect this much poop though lol. Thanks guys!