Look What I Found Today!

[Mamashack]

Was just checking up on the shrimp in my 60L and look what I spotted grazing on the gravel....................

....... a baby assassin snail - it's about 5mm in length and I couldn't be more thrilled!
It's really made my day!

 

[nic1]

Aw! It's really nice finding new life in the tank

 

[Ch4rlie]

I love finding tiny weeny new Assassin Snails, soooo cute

 

[Mamashack]

Thank you both! I'm still grinning from ear to ear! lol

 

[nofishinginmytank]

AW it's cute I have apple snails and mystery snails in my tank, they catch a lift on the plants I get from my LFS

 

[OpticNinja]

yea. ii brought some snails from a pond onece. only about five. guess how many i ended up with in a time span of 3 months?

 

[Ch4rlie]

yea. ii brought some snails from a pond onece. only about five. guess how many i ended up with in a time span of 3 months?

 
millions?
 
Only joking, you can get Assassin Snails to help control pond / pest snail populations, wont be a quick remedy but it does work....eventually
 
Humane snail traps in form of plastic box with holes and even inverted plastic bottles do work with food for snails as the lure.

 

[OpticNinja]

nah. only about 100-150, i got a clown loach. i bet he thought he was in heaven he ate em al up within a week

 

[LilyRose Tank]

Congratulations Mamashack. I cNt wait to see my babies trolling the waters, we have eggs so hopefully a few will survive

 

[Mamashack]

Thanks, LilyRose. I never even saw any eggs so it was a lovely surprise!

 

[Alex.binge]

Have you only hot one. My brother got some new plants from the local fish shop and now he has 10-15 in his tank I think I might have to sneak some in to my tanks

 

[Mamashack]

Actually I've seen another one only this week so there may be even more that I don't know about.

 

[Ch4rlie]

Certainly possible there may be more assassins, they do spend a lot of time under substrate and comes out to say hello once in a while
 
Get an algae wafer, they seem to love that.
 
Well, at least my assassins does, when i chuck in an algae wafer, they come out in droves

 

[Mamashack]

I had one assassin in the 30L that disappeared into the substrate for several months and only came out once I'd replaced it. Thought I was seeing double! lol