🐌 Horned Nerite Snail (Clithon corona)
Freshwater Peaceful Nano Algae Grazer • Genuine Horn-Like Spines on the Shell • Cannot Reproduce in Freshwater — No Overpopulation Risk
 
📋 The Horned Nerite Snail, also known as the Thorn Nerite, is genuinely one of the smallest and most distinctive nerite species, recognizable by its yellow-to-golden-brown banded shell studded with genuine short, hard horn-like projections.
Like all nerite snails, this species is a genuinely tireless algae grazer, working diatoms, green algae, and biofilm from glass, rock, and driftwood, and is considered genuinely safe for live plants.
A genuinely important and reassuring fact: nerite snails cannot complete their reproductive cycle in freshwater — the larvae require brackish water to develop — so eggs may be laid, but they will never hatch in a standard freshwater aquarium, meaning genuinely zero overpopulation risk.
 
🟡🌿 Highlights
🌿 Genuine Horn-Like Shell Spines: A distinctive, spiked profile unlike other nerites
📏 Genuinely Tiny: Max around 2.5cm, ideal for nano tanks
🌱 Genuinely Plant-Safe: Works algae without touching healthy plants
✅ Genuinely Hardy & Peaceful: Compatible with most community tanks
🚫 Genuinely Cannot Breed in Freshwater: Zero overpopulation risk