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kezune
05-13-2009, 9:06 PM
The first question is this..
Could someone help me identify this snail?
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x225/DragonTyrs/Stuff/tinysnail.jpg
It's a very small snail, about half the size of a pencil eraser.
And the second is, how the heck did it get into my tank?
I only noticed it AFTER my tetra started harassing it. I just recently bought 5 amano shrimp and didn't notice him in the bag. Maybe he came with my plants?
kyryah
05-13-2009, 9:07 PM
It is a bladder snail, and it came in on your plants. It is almost inevitable when having a planted aquarium to have these.
Kristina
snoopy65
05-13-2009, 9:07 PM
Bladder snail and most likely came in on your plants.
It is a bladder snail, and it came in on your plants. It is almost inevitable when having a planted aquarium to have these.
Kristina
What dear Kris said.:D I don't mind plenty for my assassin snails.
kezune
05-13-2009, 9:17 PM
Alright! Thanks for answering my question!
Fuzyhamster
05-14-2009, 5:46 AM
>_> I HATE them. lol If they didn't breed so prolifically I probably wouldn't mind.
phi_betta_kappa
05-15-2009, 1:42 PM
I'm so glad someone asked about these! I found one of these in one of my tanks a while back- now there are 2. What's really odd is I don't have any live plants. Could it have been transferred from a lfs net? How big do they get?
petluvr
05-15-2009, 1:55 PM
Eggs or even the snails can come in in water yes and they don't really get big and don't breed a whole lot unless there is an abundance of food.
phi_betta_kappa
05-15-2009, 2:09 PM
Thank you for the info- I don't mind the snails- they were free!
They'll do your aquarium good; however, they'll compete for food with other more aesthetically pleasing snails.
Also- they DO tend to propegate quickly (I'm not putting any food in my aquarium at the moment... I'm cycling and my bladder population seems to double every three or four days or so) If I had to guess there are probably about 60 of them in my aquarium at the moment... don't normally see that many at one time- but if I went over the plants and rocks with a fine toothed comb I'm sure I'd find 'em.