This is true. I can't confidently identify a snail, but they look like standard snails to me. certainly not something I introduced on purpose, they showed up after a new set of plants were put in there. I think I was given snails from my LFS.
Alternative to Assassin Snails?
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More than likely they came in on the plants. That's how most people get them including myself. I have ramshorns but I really enjoy watching them scoot across the glass.
Good luck on whatever you decide to do with them.
Good luck on whatever you decide to do with them.
yup! thanks for it too ha. hopefully I find out that it is just a deficiency so I don't have to deal with pulling snails out everyday.
I have been fighting an infestation of Melanoides Tuberculate for the last month.
I am winning
frist stop feeding the tank,after three or four days drop a dip net into your tank and bait it with alge disc .The next morning pick up the net and you have a couple hunderd snails. worked for me you might try it.
I am winning
frist stop feeding the tank,after three or four days drop a dip net into your tank and bait it with alge disc .The next morning pick up the net and you have a couple hunderd snails. worked for me you might try it.
Snails will *generally* not eat holes in your plants. water quality can deteriorate plant leaves. some java fern are just plain old holey.
avoid snail infestation by not overfeeding. manually remove the snails as you see them.
avoid snail infestation by not overfeeding. manually remove the snails as you see them.
Barring certain large species, snails will not eat healthy plants unless there is absolutely no other food source in the tank (obviously not the case here). They will feed on dead or dying plant matter.
Dosing ferts always helps, but realize plants will not heal damaged leaves, only put out new healthier leaves.
Dosing ferts always helps, but realize plants will not heal damaged leaves, only put out new healthier leaves.
Yep. It seems more likely that your plants have some issue, hence the holes, and the snails were there to eat the already dying plant. I have MTS, pond, nerite, and bladder snails (you probably have bladder snails), and I have never seen one eating a healthy plant.
Excellent points by all. I think I am just going to let them do their thing, only the mother plants were affected, that being their lower leaves, so it should be all good. I don't think I want to deal with fighting snails haha. They always win right?
