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What kind of snail is this?

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The little brown one on the right, the shell is dark brown with light brown speckles. The body is a medum brown. I have a mystery snail, could I have bought a pregnant snail? Or is it something that hitch hiked in on a plant?
 
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It won't reproduce unless there are more of them in there, but you can remove it if you want, it really only eats algae and dead plant matter.

They usually hitch rides on plants. That's how I always get them in my tank. Just do a hydrogen peroxide dip to kill any snails and their eggs next time.
 
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I love those snails... :) I found one and it was very pretty, but since I didn't know if it ate plants or not I put it in a little container and it crawled out and died. :/ If they don't eat plants, I don't mind them until they start to overpopulate the tank. Which hasn't happened yet. They seem pretty easy to remove since they float.

 
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