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Snail ID
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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
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If it is a MTS it’s still pretty young - they can get closer to 3 cm than 2.
wearsbunnyslippers
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pond snail looks like
Would pond snails be problematic in a 25-litre planted tank which will house RCS?
Hi all,
cheers Darrel
Bladder / Tadpole Snail (Physella acuta) - <"Snails.">
I think the tentacles are too thin for it to be <"Lymnaeidae - Wikipedia">, have a look at <"Snail Identification">. Just to be confusing the Americans call Physella spp. "Pond snails".
These are fine, in fact a perfect tank janitor to keep with shrimps. If you had <"Lymnaea stagnalis">, it might be an issue.
cheers Darrel
In that case they are welcome to stay 🏠. I'm very aware of how unstable the water quality can be in a small tank, so extra janitorial staff can only be a good thing, correct?
Hi all,
cheers Darrel
I really don't see a downside to them, I have them in all the tanks.
cheers Darrel
wearsbunnyslippers
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i never bothered to differentiate between the two, thanks for the article!
Hi all,
I've not found that Tadpole Snails eat any living plant material.
cheers Darrel
I try and repatriate any Lymnaea, Radix or Stagnicola snails that get into the tanks, mainly because they tend to eat holes in the Amazon Frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum) <"floats">, the polystyrene looking bits in the abaxial (lower) leaf surface.
I've not found that Tadpole Snails eat any living plant material.
cheers Darrel
Good to know!
