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This cute little guy* is only about 2.5 mm wide and maybe 4 mm long just now, but he's fast! He's got a mottled dark grey/black shell, and a black foot. I doubt very much that he's either a Ramshorn or an Apple, but beyond that I'm stumped (and I could be wrong on these too).

http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oct310700101mp7.jpg Here he is from underneath.

http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oct3107003ja1.jpg And here is a side view, with reflection. My apologies for picture quality.

I hope they're good enough for someone to ID the little fella.

*gender is arbitrary, because I hate calling him it.

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I don't know what kind it is either, but my mom's tank used to have a bunch of them and they don't get too big (under 1 cm long).

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I suspect he's a feeder snail (physid), but I'd like to be sure, so I can decide if he's just a temporary guest or not.

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It's probably a pond snail, like you get with plants. If you go to profiles on here, under crustaceans, you will see a pic of one. If you don't get rid of it you will probably end up with more snails, as they don't need another snail to produce more snails. This is just my guess, as I know little about snails.

You mentioned the words physid, feeder snail & ramshorn & I said pond snail. I'm thinking these names are all the same for the same snail? Maybe someone will come on & clear all this up.

Looks like a physa to me. They stay small, but breed very fast. They are quite fun to look at (they are fast and they can get up and down in the mass of the water as they like) as long as they are not too many, but soon they can become a pest, so better remove them immediatly when you see them. I also find them cute, but...
They are not apples. Little apples are round, and they don't just appear in your fishtank, they lay their eggs in a clutch that is impossible not to notice because is a couple of cm big.
Physa is not the same with the ramhorn , the last one is round and flat, but also breeds very fast.
It seems the pondsnail is the same one with physa, but I am not sure that other people don't use this name for ramhorns (planorbis).
Here is the profile:
http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/r90020.htm

PS: I wrote 'they' because a physa never comes alone, be sure you have more of them and you just don't see them yet.


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So the zebra loach plan is sounding better and better all the time....

Yes, I think we've spotted two more now. Tiny ones. And speedy is definitely an F1 racing snail!

I rather like him, but too many would not be a good thing.

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