I got snails o.O

[Chrona]

Ramshorn to be exact, and possibly 1 pond snail. Was hoping for some malaysian trumpets but no soup for me :( Just noticed them while clipping the plants. Great, another factor - possible plant eating snails :rolleyes:

[Lady Hobbs]

oooopsss. I probably should have checked better the plants I just go.

[cocoa_pleco]

Do snails eat live plants?

[Chrona]

Do snails eat live plants?

Pond snails - often
Ramshorn - on occasion
Apple snails - often
Malaysian trumpt - almost never

Live, healthy plants of course. Most all eat dead/dying plant leaves.

[cocoa_pleco]

Ive seen the VERY odd one in my 20g. Its mainly snail free.

[xoolooxunny]

Ramshorn to be exact, and possibly 1 pond snail. Was hoping for some malaysian trumpets but no soup for me :( Just noticed them while clipping the plants. Great, another factor - possible plant eating snails :rolleyes:

I was on the az gardens website and they wont sell certain snails anymore bc of some government crap i dont know about, they said you need a permit to buy them, and ramshorn was one of them!!

[kimmers318]

If I knew how to ship them I could send ya about a dozen MTS snails! I can't feed them to my bigger puffers, they will break the teeth, the clown loaches will suck 'em dry so to speak, but I just had about 20 babies born, yesterday was the first day I could see them.

[Chrona]

If I knew how to ship them I could send ya about a dozen MTS snails! I can't feed them to my bigger puffers, they will break the teeth, the clown loaches will suck 'em dry so to speak, but I just had about 20 babies born, yesterday was the first day I could see them.

Thanks for the offer Kimmers! I will keep that in mind. Currently a little too preoccupied to deal with the tank issues with the second wave of midterms coming...lol

[Severus]

Snails can be a pain. I remember when my 20 gallon was completely taken over with 100s of them. It was out of control.

[xoolooxunny]

My situation has gone from completely out of control, to almost under control in about 3 weeks time. All the egg-laying snails are almost gone, i got 2 more khulis to make the total 3 and they eat a lot of them, and I've been vacuuming a lot of them out. They wont eat the MTS tho, but i don't mind, ill just get the ones off the glass and leave the ones in the substrate, and once and awhile drop a chunk of cucumber in and clean it off periodically. I just have to keep with it, I guess it all comes with the learning process of being a new aquarist!

[Chrona]

I'm already overstocked in my tank, so my only solution would be one of those copper containing ich meds I think....heh

[kimmers318]

Be cautious when you see MTS snails climbing up the glass during the daytime, or if you see a group of them "making a run" for the top, these guys will run for the top when there is a problem in the water. They usually IME can sense an ammonia spike long before your water test reads the ammonia.

[cocoa_pleco]

Be cautious when you see MTS snails climbing up the glass during the daytime, or if you see a group of them "making a run" for the top, these guys will run for the top when there is a problem in the water. They usually IME can sense an ammonia spike long before your water test reads the ammonia.


Exactly what i noticed! when i had freshwater fish in my 20g long, one time all my snails were hanging at the waterline, and one week later i got a mysterious ammonia spike.

[Chrona]

Be cautious when you see MTS snails climbing up the glass during the daytime, or if you see a group of them "making a run" for the top, these guys will run for the top when there is a problem in the water. They usually IME can sense an ammonia spike long before your water test reads the ammonia.

Yeah, I read about that. Fortunately for me, ammonia spikes are no longer an issue in my tank :)

The snails seem to be cleaning up a bit of the algae and not touching the plants yet. We shall see.....