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[Connswater]

looking at both snails IDs on a site

For a new member I have to say you have embraced the spirit of this site with gusto. I learn, get things wrong, get things right, share knowledge, experience, mistakes but above all, my passion. Where else does one go to find folks properly interested, fascinated even in love, with the tiny creatures in our indoor little micro climates? In due course I look forward to perhaps some chili rasboras or ember tetras, or celestial danios or and pygmy corydoras in your cube, the latter I find just 'adorable', obviously not all these fish species in your small cube. Enjoy.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

and what I think is the Wandering Pond snail,

They have a much bigger initial shell whorl <"Identifying British freshwater snails: Radix balthica | The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland">.

I've ever had the 'bigger' 'British' snails, that is a true species of native pond snail in my tropical tank

They come in from outside sometimes, they live in the water butts and <"Asellus buckets">, as well as the pond. Mine are mainly <"Marsh Snail agg. | NatureSpot"> apparently.

Currently I have small snails, slightly lighter/more translucent shells which I assumed/guessed meant they were bladder snails (short whirl on the end of the shell?) and Malaysian trumpet snails (long thin more conch like shell and basically nocturnal).

That sounds right.

I keep hoping for red rams hornsnails to appear but plants are now so sterile from the big growers, so no such luck.

You are more than welcome to some of mine, although <"they all have eroded shells"> and <"never get very big">.

Certainly I have no evidence at all of snail damage to plants,

That is usually how I know they are present, <"damage to the "floats"> of Amazon Frogbit (Limnobium (Hydrocharis) laevigatum).

cheers Darrel

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I think on looking at both snails IDs on a site, it's more likely to be a bladder snail, thinner long tentacles instead of the flatter ones I recognise on pond snails, but he is VERY TINY so honestly, I'm unsure.

I think it is probably a "Pond Snail", the tentacles of Tadpole Snails are really thin and thread like.

cheers Darrel