uh oh. are these little snails bad

Ah, I would not know.


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I thought I was trippin at first. I first saw the one on the wood. I found another buried in some fissedens I tied down today. Then the white guy climbing on the back of the tank. Hmmmm I wonder. I haven't researched this much but as far as I know I don't want snails in my tank. But if they are harmless. I have no problems with them. Idk

You shouldn't worry them. They definitely hitched a ride on your new plants. If left unchecked and unchallenged they will multiple like herpes. If you want to avoid little unwanted guest in your aquarium I suggest doing a mild bleach dip before putting plants or decor in the tank.

I have pond, MTS, and ramshorn. They multiply like crazy. I love em though. They help the tank stay clean and I like the idea of diversity in my tank. They also don't pose threat to plants.

Unless ur going for some grand aquascape piece, I wouldn't worry about them.

Awesome thanks for the advice guys. No not going for a grand piece. My honest first reaction was cool. But like I said about invasive.. so in doing a little research and as you guys said if left unchecked.. how to check them when they start getting out of hand. Assassin snails? Maybe just a couple so everyone can stay happy? And the mild bleach dip. I'm sure I can find a thread on the how to? Thanks again you guys rawk

phxkrausehouse said:

Awesome thanks for the advice guys. No not going for a grand piece. My honest first reaction was cool. But like I said about invasive.. so in doing a little research and as you guys said if left unchecked.. how to check them when they start getting out of hand. Assassin snails? Maybe just a couple so everyone can stay happy? And the mild bleach dip. I'm sure I can find a thread on the how to? Thanks again you guys rawk

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When I bleach dip a new plant I do a 20:1 ratio of water to bleach. I always research the plant before I dip it, some plants are more tolerate than others. As far as keeping the snails in check, if you start seeing them all over (basically more than you'd like to see) start smashing them. Haha There are several fish that eat them as well, like puffers and loaches. But they are harmless either way. I don't like them when I see them they die.

If you want them gone, then hunt and destroy them ruthlessly right now. Once you get them breeding it's a lost cause. At the moment they're tiny and relatively small in number, so there's a chance that you might win.

That said, I've always liked snails in my tanks, so you can also just let them be and enjoy the mollusk-ness of it all.

I have 5 Nerites, 1 Apple, and 1 Ramshorn snails. That's it! All others (typically pond snails) get squished. I am a confessed serial snail killer. I'm going to start putting hash marks on the tank for each that I kill

bottom line is, if you don't squish them now, you will have scores of them very soon!

Great advice. So the question now is what kind are they? From what I can see they are pond snails? Loaches and puffers won't work with my ebjd and other current stock.

If they are pond snails I'm going hunting lol

phxkrausehouse said:

If they are pond snails I'm going hunting lol

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I'm pretty sure those are Malaysian Trumpet Snails. At least the first one. They dig in the substrate and keep it aerated. They shouldn't get out of hand unless you overfeed.

Sweet. That's awesome.ya no over feeding. Blood worms every other day dry food and pellets on the off days. I'm kinda excited now. That's cool. Hopefully no pond snails

yep that first picture looks like a malaysian trumpet snail. I purposely introduce them into my new tanks because they dig around and aerate the soil to help prevent pockets of gases and such. Had that problem in my 75 that i noticed the other day when cleaning. Whenever i dug around a few little bubbles would come up.. so i threw a couple in there. should hopefully help

I bought plants from a very large internet supplier in Arizona about a month ago. My tank is now overrun with pond snails. Literally.

I'm going to try a couple of Clown Loaches. Every time I pass by the tank, I pull out at least 20 of them and throw them outside in the yard. By the time I walk back through the door, there are at least that many more on the glass.

KILL them now while you can.

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I have 5 Nerites, 1 Apple, and 1 Ramshorn snails. That's it! All others (typically pond snails) get squished. I am a confessed serial snail killer. I'm going to start putting hash marks on the tank for each that I kill

bottom line is, if you don't squish them now, you will have scores of them very soon!

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LMFAO! I'm calling the police.... right after I wash the snail guts off my hands.

Squishing is a lost cause, they breed under the substrate where you will never get to them. If you want to control their numbers just don't overfeed and make sure to remove dying plant matter when you see it. That will keep them in reasonable numbers.

You can keep their numbers even lower if you buy a few assassin snails. they don't breed very fast, they are great at keeping those small snails under control and they are pretty cool looking. Even with 1 in my 36g tank I never see snails on the glass anymore (except my large nerites). However they are still in small numbers under the substrate because when I remove the assassin for a week or 2 I will start to see them on the glass again.

I kinda like the "cone" shaped snails better. They don't breed as fast and they're kinda prettyish.

They will increase in number very fast at first but then slow down just as fast when they've eaten all the excess food, unless you are way overfeeding

I bought some plants from a member here and a week later, i had a ton of snails. Bought plants had a ton of algae on them and a week later, every inch of my giant Val and Crypts were algae free. They did such a great job that I only remove them once they start infesting the front glass. Usually about 20-30 mini snails once a week. Eventually I'll remove them using the overnight cucumber/zucchini in a jar method.