Astrea snails are great glass cleaners and will graze over liverock. Very slow and cannot right theselves when turned over.
Nassarius snails burrow under the substrate and are pretty good cleaning the tank sand above and below.
Cerith snails have the same behavior as nassarius snails.
Trocheus snails look like big astrea and are wonderful scavengers eating algae and deterius 24/7 and they eat a lot.
Turbo snails are fast as all get out. But they have a tendency to knock over small rocks and new coral. They are bulldozers.....
Margarita snails work well and add some color.........
Coralline algae growing on shells is no big deal.
Hermits will kill snails for their shells, not just wait till they die. I've seen many evict my nassarius for their shells.
Scarlets are they safest hermits I've had followed by red legged then blue legged. Priced as such too.
Gobies and blennies are great scavengers... Not big fans of stars
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