Today while I was doing a water change, I noticed a tiny snail on the glass. It must've come with one of my plants. I don't think it's a pest snail - I'm pretty sure it's an apple snail. It was really, really small, so I couldn't get pictures. (My camera is good, but not that good.)

While I did the water change, I put it in a cup of tank water so I wouldn't suck it up in the gravel vac. It nearly crawled out of the cup. Pretty fast for such a little guy. Apple snails are the only ones that really go out of the water, right? The shell shape is like an apple snail, pointed. So.

Could someone post pictures of some apple snails that are a few weeks old, with some size comparisons, like a coin or some standard airline tubing or something? The size is the only thing that throws me off - it just seems so much smaller than the eggs and such look in pictures.

Thanks

Sorry, I doubt it's an apple snail.

Eggs are laid for most species outside of the water, in a cluster kind of like an elongated raspberry with the color of chewing gum. It's pretty damn difficult to miss. I just had a female pass away, and she laid probably a dozen times, all but the last few were fertile clutches with hundreds of offspring.

Maybe an immature one snuck in on your plants though.

Edit: When new born they are transparent, maybe the size of a sesame seed.

This post has been edited by eschaton: Jun 2 2008, 03:08 AM

Have a look here to try and identify the culprit.
My thoughts is that its a bladder snail as they tend to be only semi-aquatic and often clamber out of the water.

apple snails shells are not pointed, sounds like you have a trumpet snail - commonly brought in on plants.

apple snails will come out of the water and move around but not for long.


these are two of my apple snails

There are some superb photos of some apple snail eggs and newly hatched babies in this thread

http://www.fishforums.net/content/Inverteb...e-Snail-Clutch/

I had some of these guys that I thought were baby blue apple snails but turns out they dont get any bigger than BB size. Neat little things they just look like mini apple snails.

http://www.snailshop.co.uk/p/375391/mini-m...s-unknown-.html

A few people seem to be finding these out and about, I know one of my friends got a pair in some java moss, lucky sod.

Mini apple snails sound cute!