Trumpet snails for sand maintenance?

Any opinions on trumpet snails? A couple of people at my LFS recommended them, and said that they were good for going through the sand so it doesn’t end up too compacted, or too layered with ammonia. The one guy said he had a pocket of ammonia that ended up being exposed by his Cory, which ended up basically blowing up in its face and killing it. He said the trumpets nails were good with keeping it all worked out and not compacted. They warned me that they would be a bit of an explosion in snails for the first month or so, but that this would level out as long as I wasn’t overfeeding, and then I wouldn’t even know that they were there until it was feeding time when they would all come out of the sand like a “zombie apocalypse”.
I currently have three nerites and an assassin snail, i’ve been picking out baby ramshorns from plants that I put in, as I don’t want to bunch of pest snails. But the trumpet snails sound cool if they’re mostly just in the sand and being productive.
so I’m wondering if anybody has added trumpet snails and then regretted it, or if people enjoy them and get a kick out of them?

 

Malaysian trumpet snails are fast producers but you won't see them much, they do burrow and are very good for deeper sand beds to mix it up and they oxygenate it when they burrow. The guy at the LFS knows what he is talking about but not sure on the "pocket of ammonia" thing. I think it would be a pocket of some foul smelling gas, I *think* methane?

 

Malaysian trumpet snails are fast producers but you won't see them much, they do burrow and are very good for deeper sand beds to mix it up and they oxygenate it when they burrow. The guy at the LFS knows what he is talking about but not sure on the "pocket of ammonia" thing. I think it would be a pocket of some foul smelling gas, I *think* methane?

Ok, thank you. Maybe I will scoop some up and just wait out the production high until it levels out. It was funny the way they described them all coming out of the sand for food like a zombie graveyard.

 

I didn't even know I had any in my tank and now I magically have 20+ lol! Keeping the tank nice and clean

 

Mts are the best of the pest snails. Their burrowing gets oxygen into the sand and while there they eat whatever is there. I find plants grow great with mts in the tank. Mts will eat dead roots. As stated you’ll get a lot in the beginning because the sand has stuff in it. They breed to the amount of food. If you over feed They’ll let you know..