Welcome to H&K Aquatics 🦐💙
We’re a small, family-run UK aquatics business with a passion for freshwater shrimp and aquatic snails. From colourful colony starters to carefully selected specialist Caridina, we love helping you find something special for your aquarium.
Every order is packed with care and a personal touch, with insulated packaging and heat packs included in our winter shipping.
Friendly advice, beautiful livestock and a little aquatic magic—all from H&K Aquatics.
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Pond snails are usually met as hitchhikers, but bought deliberately they are a genuinely useful clean-up crew — grazing algae, biofilm and decaying leaves, and breeding fast enough to serve as live food for pufferfish and loaches.
They are entirely shrimp-safe and will not damage healthy plants, though they will finish off dying leaves. Population size tracks feeding: overfeed and they multiply, cut back and numbers fall.
Keep GH above 6 to protect shells.