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- Thread starter Anomander
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Hi all,
cheers Darrel
It is somewhere near there. I think its shell whorls are two big and obvious to be MTS (Melanoides tuberculata), so it maybe a "fancier" snail. I'm pretty sure it isn't a native species.
cheers Darrel
Fishfur
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M.tuberculata isn’t exclusively nocturnal - they are often out & about during the day.
The females I have make a habit of climbing the glass in mid to late evening but not very late at night. The snails I see doing this climb are always females & always heading for the surface to release a brood of little snails onto the water tension. The tiny juvies float around on the water tension until they contact something they can get a grip on. I’m fairly sure this is how they keep getting into the filters despite intake covers.
About long is this one?
It appears to me that it could be a juvenile M.tuberculata. The shoulders of the whorls become more rounded as they get older but often start out looking rather square, like these.
If it happens to be female you can look forward to seeing more of them as they can reproduce parthenogenetically.
There are a number of different patterns in their shells and I don’t know if these are simply variants or different but very similar species.
It's tiny, about half the size of a juvenile Neocaridina
Fishfur
New Member
If it is a MTS it’s still pretty young - they can get closer to 3 cm than 2.
