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What kind of snails are these?

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What kind of snails are these?

Are these Malaysian Trumpet Snails?

The picture doesn't show it, but they have a coloring of yellow and black, and looks similar to an assassin snail that I put in the tank to help with this.

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Kunsthure
They're an MTS-type snail. I'm becoming convinced that there are several separate species, or maybe sub-species of MTS-type snails. The ones I have in my 37g look completely different from the ones in my 20g which look completely different from the ones in my 75g. But they all act the same: burrow in the sand all day and come out at night. The ones in my 20g do the zombie crawl up the sides of the tank but the other two types don't.

-Lisa
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They do look like MTS... except the ones I'm used to seeing are much more slender and longer.
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xenxes
Short stubby MTS
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Bananariot
Kunsthure said:
They're an MTS-type snail. I'm becoming convinced that there are several separate species, or maybe sub-species of MTS-type snails. The ones I have in my 37g look completely different from the ones in my 20g which look completely different from the ones in my 75g. But they all act the same: burrow in the sand all day and come out at night. The ones in my 20g do the zombie crawl up the sides of the tank but the other two types don't.

-Lisa
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Yeah no doubt its a type of MTS. I feel like mts, ramshorn, etc are all general categories. Like there's those annoying flat ways ramshorns. As well as fat and small mts.
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