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Ok within the past week I have noticed 3 new snails in my tank They apparently came in on the last batch of plants I bought ...When I first noticed them they looked like small MTS but a bit rounder. Now they are beginning to look more like mystery snails...which would be a good name for them since it is a mystery to me as to which kind they are...could some tell me what kind they are? Are they safe for my plants like the MTS, or are they gonna eat my plants? Should I just yank them out, put them back in a ziplock, and return them to the LFS where they came from (not telling the lfs that I'm returning them of course ). As of right now they are about 1/2 inch across...and I figure they move about 25 ft/hr (yes, I was bored this morning:%))

Here's some pictures of the "mysteries"
right side up

upside down

close up right side up

good picture of the coloring (pale brown with darker spots)

in the tank clinging to the top of the water how don't ask me...
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Looks like a Ramshorn type, couldn't give you the scientific name but that should help with a place to start.

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They're ramshorn. "Mystery" snails don't coil like that. Good find!!



Kim

Intresting my cousins has a few of those in here pond and the creek i live by has a couple. Not 100% sure what it is but i thought the coil was real cool. Any way they seem to be able to survive freezing water as they were out doors in a pond.

So should I take them out, mush them, take them back, keep them? What do ya'll think?

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Smush 'em!!!
Unless you dont mind current or future plants being nibbled on.

I have some ( ] I'll mush them and let the fish eat them ....helps after a rough day .

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Take them back to the lfs and get a definite identification on them. They could be an apple snail which could be good. Some kinds eat plants and some just clean algae off of everything. Or you could go to The Apple Snail website and see if you can identify them your self.

http://www.applesnail.net/

You can smash them if you want. If you keep them you'll finish up with thousands of them................



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Yes, i would defitly smash them you can always find them on my cousins plants and no where else. We used to grab them and and hit them with bats like baseball is was kinda fun.

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any apple or mystery snail (true mystery snail, not just ones you can't identify ) will have a trap door for the body of the snail. if there is no trap door, then you have the garden variety pond snail, which is a complete pest once it starts laying eggs all over your tank. if you want your tank overrun by these snails, then do nothing. otherwise you should be getting rid of as many as you can

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Thanks everyone...after chatting with Babel last night I went home, and tried to drop the cell phone in the tank as I was yanking them out. (My b/f got a kick out of the fact that he almost went for a swim ) I couldn't think of smushing them as they were about 1/2 inch across, and that just seemed....yuck!!! in my opinion, so i plucked them out and flushed them down in the toilet...There were only four that I saw, if I see any more well, they will find the same ending...Oh and by the way they did not have a door, so it would have become a dooming force for me

Today though at the lfs, I had my arms all in the tank (Les is going to kill me one of these days ) smushing the snails in the plant tanks that they came from...so there, some are now gone!!!

Heidi:%)

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

They're not pond snails.


Kim

Today though at the lfs, I had my arms all in the tank (Les is going to kill me one of these days ) smushing the snails in the plant tanks that they came from...so there, some are now gone!!!

ive done that a couple times. Ive tossed a couple snails from my lfs plant take which in fact has some snails. Ive tried a few experiments with some of there snails to


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