Snail Identification

Didn't buy these . Not sure if they came with the plants I bought ?





Should kill it ?

 

common pond snails - kill it

 

Lymnaea- take it out, and to reiterate, kill it.

 

Kill....with vengeance...lol - just crush them and remove...or leave for your fish to munch...

 

Eek, personally I would just let them be as I hate to kill anything >.< I love loaches though, so have never had problems with snails breeding.

 

i dnt knoe if this thread is closed but lets keep it going???

i found these guys in the tank. any ideas? good or bad?

 

@Camcam its best to kill them, they can over run your planted tank in now time.

 

Snails are a good indicator of water quality.
They also eat algae.


http://www.planetinverts.com/snail_species.html

Only happens when you are overfeeding your fish.

 

Nice website thanks for that.

 

looks like pond snail, thanks @DewaldC , ill leave them be for now, maybe a nice excuse for assassin snail

 

If there are ramshorn snails in a planted tank, you don't need to over feed for them to wreck havoc on you plants.

 

Can any one tell me how to get rid of ramshorn snails. I try to either crush them when i see them but cant always as they are on my plants and I try to vacuum them up when I do a waterchange. What can I do.

 

a snail trap could be a long term solution,
http://www.aquariumlife.com.au/showthread.php/11131-DIY-Snail-Trap

 

My tank has hundreds of snails in it, all bred in a few weeks since I introduced plants. They only seem to eat algae, so I don't see a problem at this stage. Are there long term issues?

 

@Camcam - that's a young ramshorn snail, not a pond snail.

The snail question - snails can be helpful in the sense that they will eat leftover food and thus assist in keeping water quality good. The thing being they show absolutely no sign of restraint :embarrest:. And if you're into planted tanks, they will chomp on certain plants too. Personally, i tried the picking out manually approach, it never seemed to have much of an effect. I tried the lettuce leaf approach with very limited success. I really wouldn't have minded one or two wandering around, but it had reached epidemic proportions, and to my eye was really unnappealling.

A friend and member who has now moved on from TASA suggested I invest in a group of zebra loaches (Botia striata). I waited patiently until they cropped up on the wholesalers list, then bought a group of six. I was advised that it would take them a while to begin controlling the teeming hordes... so I applied patience. That tank is now snail-free - very occasionally I spot a lone ranger somewhere, but thats quite allright with me! I then repeated the exercise with another group of three in a smaller aquarium, with exactly the same results.

So, for me, that was a fabulous solution - add a small (and very endearing) predator and let nature deal with the situation. I'd like to add that the "men in striped pajamas" as they are affectionately known hereabouts should be kept in groups and not as single specimens. I have heard of people being successful with other loaches, but the results seem variable.

 

@tracyp

thanx for the ID , id love to get some zebra loaches but the tank is a bit small to accomodate a group, ill keep that idea in mind though, the only plants that have suffered are the hornwort, the other thick leaved plants seem fine, the snails are just chomping on what ever algae is in the tank.

i did find this while searching "snail eating fish"---- http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/snailsandworms/a/killingsnals.htm
which basically just metions some methods of snail control etc.
hope it helps any one with these pesky lil critters

 

Thanks for the link.