Snail Id good or bad for planted tank?

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Is this snail good for a planted tank? Will they eat the plants and have 100+ baby's?
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It's a Bladder Snail, and yes, they can breed out of control.
 
Common Bladder or a Pond Snail for sure hard to tell which one from the angle, betting on the bladder though. Does it have donkey ears or antenna? Donkey ears = Pond / antenna = Bladder

So to answer your questions
Plants - Will not harm
1000+ Babies - Oh yea you'll have babies....:grinyes:

Just keep your feedings light and they should not become a real problem if they do there are a few means to get rid of them.

#1 Manual Removal
#2 Assassin Snails
#3 Snail eating fish but only if you are prepared to keep them.
 
Here is another picture hmm and yes It has it looks like donkey ears I have him out of the tank and waiting for him to pop out again to see
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Sorry, had a brain fart. It's a Pond Snail. You can tell by the direction the shell spirals.
 
vampie said:
Sorry, had a brain fart. It's a Pond Snail. You can tell by the direction the shell spirals.
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:iagree: Now that you can see it fully. Really no big deal I have some in every tank that they can survive in.
 
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