Small White Shells

[TrekkieForLife]

I am searching these forums but cannot find anything to answer this.

I am cleaning my tanks and I see small pure white shells. They are only a few mm's in thickness. I cannot see anything in them. There is only about 6 that I can see. I don't have the ability to post a picture.

This tank set up is some black tank sand in a 10g, live plants, 1 crowntail betta and 1 pleco. The plants and betta are not new, but the pleco is only a few weeks in there.

I appreciate any thoughts on this. Google did not help much since I have no idea where to begin.

T4L

 

[homebunnyj]

Do they look like snail shells? It wouldn't be unusual for some hitchhikers to come in on the live plants.

 

[GIS Guy]

My guess is snails w/ plants.

 

[Breene]

yep same thing happened to me. I bought a plant like 2-3 weeks ago and a few nights back i saw some baby snails in my tank.

 

[jamiecarter]

hehe i have 2 snails in my tank were bebeh snails about 2 days ago now there huge and eating lots of algae for me*twirlysmi

 

[TrekkieForLife]

Yes they do look like snail shells. I thought that's what it might be from reading around on here, but I wasn't sure. Gah!

So how big are these little guys going to get? Will I need to provide them any food in the future?

 

[homebunnyj]

They're most likely common pond snails, in which case they will most likely become more numerous than the grains of sand (so to speak) without any help from you whatsoever. The thing you have to do is to keep your substrate well-vacuumed and be sure not to overfeed, because a plentiful food source will increase your chances of a heavy infestation. I personally pull out any pond snails I find in my tank.

 

[Breene]

They're most likely common pond snails, in which case they will most likely become more numerous than the grains of sand (so to speak) without any help from you whatsoever. The thing you have to do is to keep your substrate well-vacuumed and be sure not to overfeed, because a plentiful food source will increase your chances of a heavy infestation. I personally pull out any pond snails I find in my tank.

But they are so tiny and cute *twirlysmi

I dont have the heart to pull the little munchkin out... maby when its a giant ball of slime overrunning my tank. But my snails live for now