Snail question

[alter40]

Ok so I found a new snail in my tank today and it seems to be another malaysian trumpet snail but the shell on this one isn't dark and dull colored like the other one I have. Instead this one appears to have a smooth cone shaped shell and the shell is shiny as well. He is pretty fast really and very small. I can't get a decent picture of him because he is so small but I wanted to make sure that the MTS can have shiny shells as well.

 

[alter40]

Nothing???

I might just kill him and get rid of the snail so I don't have to worry about it.

 

[d3sc3n7]

Let them live in your QT tank.

 

[alter40]

I don't have my QT tank even setup right now.

 

[sweetpickles7]

I would let it live, the only thing it can do will be to benifit u.

 

[d3sc3n7]

Yeah, I know its not up yet...but it soon will. Let 'em hang, till its up and running.

 

[alter40]

I will let him back in the tank. Sweetpickles you saved the snail and he says thank you.

 

[Lotus]

I've never seen a MTS with a shiny shell. They usually have ridges in them.

There are some snail ID pics here: PG: Snails - They aren't so bad - PlantGeek.net

 

[alter40]

Well I don't know what it is because it is kinda small but it may be a pond snail now that I look at that picture again (I checked there before).

Pond snails are usually more of a hassle then anything aren't they?

 

[cchase85]

Only if you overfeed and allow their populations to get out of control.

 

[MikeS]

My clown loach can track a snail down in my 75 no problem. I believe there are a couple of other loaches that do this too, as well as cichlids. The tanks at one of the local Petsmarts is infested, but the loach and cichlid tanks are clean as can be.

I was actually trying to get a population of them in my tank and even put a plant covered with their eggs in with my others. 24 hours later it was picked clean too

 

[alter40]

I don't mind a few snails in my tank but its only 10 gallons so I don't want it to get over run with them and its really too small probably for one of the snail eating fish. I will leave this one in the tank for now though till I start having issues with snails.

 

[iapetus]

I don't mind a few snails in my tank but its only 10 gallons so I don't want it to get over run with them and its really too small probably for one of the snail eating fish. I will leave this one in the tank for now though till I start having issues with snails.

That's been my policy with my own 10G. I was initially worried that my pond snail population would explode when I saw my first one; and it has grown considerably, though it's not yet problematic. They do a pretty good job on the algae.

What I've noticed that the other fish find snail eggs to be a yummy snack. My main snail concern right now is that the fish I suspect to be the principle snail egg eater is in quarantine.

If they do begin to reproduce out of control, I will not hesitate to take measures to drop the population.

 

[alter40]

What type of fish is that? I doubt my tetras would eat the eggs but maybe the otto would.

 

[iapetus]

What type of fish is that?

My swordtail. He likes to pick at the algae on the side of the tank, too.

I doubt my tetras would eat the eggs but maybe the otto would.

No, my gold pristella tetras don't touch the eggs.

 

[Punkrulz]

Hey guys, I do have but one question, I'm sorry to possibly derail the thread on this one...

How are people exactly getting these snails into their tank? Are they just coming in off of the plants that people are planting into their tank? Are they coming from fish? Or is it possible that they just kind of "spawn" out of nowhere?

 

[alter40]

I got a Malaysian Trumpet snail in my Eco-Complete substrate, but it comes with liquid in it so I would guess if it is fresh you could get a hitch hiker like I did. My other snail must have come on one of my new plants because it showed up less then a week after I added new plants to the tank.

 

[alter40]

I was looking at my plants just now and I saw 2 more little tiny pond snails, SO... to avoid an problem with them I have an old small hex that I believe is 2 gallons. I'm going to get that setup and running and start taking the pond snails I find and putting them in the hex for now. I may put one a couple pieces of the moneywort or the wisteria in there as well. I will replace the incandescent bulb with a 10w compact fluorescent bulb so it should have enough light hopefully. I may put a betta or something in there as well once it cycles.

 

[alter40]

I was able to snap a great picture of this snail tonight

This is one of the ones that I suspect to be a pond snail, there are at least 2 other smaller ones that I have seen in the tank as well. If you know what kind of snail this is please let me know

 

[iapetus]

It's a pond snail!