Anyone familiar with these snails?
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Looks like it may be a pouch Snail...
The pouch snail may be found in streams that are fairly clean. However, their dominance may indicate that dissolved oxygen levels are low. These snails are different from right-handed snails because they do not breath under water by use of gills but instead have a lung-like sac called a pulmonary cavity which they fill with air at the surface of the water. When the snail takes in air from the surface, it makes a clicking sound. The air taken in can enable the snail to breath under water for long periods of time, sometimes hours.
The pouch snails have two characteristics that will help you identify it. First, it has no operculum, or hard cover over the opening to its body cavity. Second, snails are either "right-handed" or "left-handed," and the pouch snails are "left-handed." You can tell the difference by holding the shell so that its tip is upward and the opening toward you. If the opening is to the left of the axis of the shell, the snail is termed sinestral -- that is it is left-handed. If the opening is to the right of the axis of the shell, the snail is termed dextral -- that is it is right-handed, and it breathes with gills.
The pouch snail may be found in streams that are fairly clean. However, their dominance may indicate that dissolved oxygen levels are low. These snails are different from right-handed snails because they do not breath under water by use of gills but instead have a lung-like sac called a pulmonary cavity which they fill with air at the surface of the water. When the snail takes in air from the surface, it makes a clicking sound. The air taken in can enable the snail to breath under water for long periods of time, sometimes hours.
The pouch snails have two characteristics that will help you identify it. First, it has no operculum, or hard cover over the opening to its body cavity. Second, snails are either "right-handed" or "left-handed," and the pouch snails are "left-handed." You can tell the difference by holding the shell so that its tip is upward and the opening toward you. If the opening is to the left of the axis of the shell, the snail is termed sinestral -- that is it is left-handed. If the opening is to the right of the axis of the shell, the snail is termed dextral -- that is it is right-handed, and it breathes with gills.
YEAH THEY ARE A SWEET LIGHT COLORED VERSION OF PHYSA OR POND SNAIL. NICE PICS!!!!!
SO YOU SEE ALL POND SNAILS ARE NOT BAD
LUIS
SO YOU SEE ALL POND SNAILS ARE NOT BAD
LUIS
That's the bit of information that I needed.
I pulled on out of my aquarium last night and it's right-handed, so it's not from the Physidae (physa) family.I did some more searching and I think it's mostly likely Lymnaea (radix) auriculata, Big-Eared Radix.
I have some of these snails. They were "bonuses" with plants that I purchased. They don't seem to reproduce like crazy like the small brown pond snails. The faces are interesting. The eyes are prominent and you can see activity in the skull.
