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(ID help?) Edit: Just a baby ramshorn never mind me

Hufsa

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Ive found a very unusual snail in my main tank. Previously I found two of his buddies in a fern from the LFS, but since they didnt look like anything I had ever seen before I foolishly thought they were land snails from the nursery that had gotten submerged and died, and threw them away.
Fast forward to today where I see this guy cleaning one of my Blyxa leaves.

The end of the shell is very flat and looks like it has been sharply cut off. Its so abrupt the end looks like it has been polished by a machine.
Both his buddies were the same orange red color with spots.
He does not appear to have an operculum, and the whole shell is around 2 mm.
Ive checked wikipedia to the best of my ability but could not find any pictures that looked like this guy with a sharp end.

If anyone knows what this is I'd love to know

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It's a ramshorn of some kind, I get have the same ones in my tanks, don't really mind them but they do bully the shrimp of their food so I try to thin numbers some. They get quite big, around 15mm shell is the largest of mine.
 
Googled ramshorn, first result, "leopard ramshorn". Not so silly eh, looks like a positive id too.
 
Oh dear, looks like it really is just a regular old baby ramshorn 😂
How embarassing :facepalm: I didnt know they had this sharp edge when they are small.
No snailus garyii for me :lol: Ill still call him Gary though

Dont worry ill let you answer the next one :p
 
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