Can Anyone Identify This Snail Please?

[sussexgirl]

I've discovered this little fella crawling (well zooming to be honest!) round my tank and eating on all the brown algae. He moved really fast and has grown very quickly. I'm assuming that he was introduced on one of the plants I bought recently. I can't identify what it is, can anyone help? He's now about a centimetre in length. Thanks.

 

[black angel]

I had one of those in my tropical tank, and was about half an inch big. Would like to know what it was as well.
It died though.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

ummm ummm ummm i know this, can't remember!! will get back to you with a name, think it's a pest snail though

edit - found it!

from rain's pinned topic on snails

Bladder/Tadpole/Pouch Snails - Family Physidae

Size: 9 - 15 millimetres ; 0.3 - 0.6 inches

Physa, Physella, Aplexa, Stenophysa, first two ones being the most common subfamilies. The one in the picture is most likely Physa fontinalis. Physids consists of several different species and subfamilies, they all have sinistral shells (when you keep the snail towards you and the spire pointing up, the shell lip/opening points to the left), thin tentacles and they don't usually grow over 2 centimetres/0.8 inches. They are also hermaphroditic and pulmonate, no operculum. They do take air to their lung and you can see them rising to the surface regularly. They also have two hand like mantle lobes extended against the outer side of the shell on both sides of the snail to give more area for exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Physids and Lymnaeidae snails can easily be mixed with each other, they look almost the same and act the same. They also lay same kind of eggs. Clear eggs are inside a jelly like clear clutch and the clutch is usually horseshoe shaped, might be straight too. The eggs are laid on plants, decoration and even on tank walls. You can and you should remove the eggs when you spot them. These can reproduce really fast and might do damage to live plants. Can tolerate brackish water.

 

[sussexgirl]

ummm ummm ummm i know this, can't remember!! will get back to you with a name, think it's a pest snail though

edit - found it!

from rain's pinned topic on snails

Bladder/Tadpole/Pouch Snails - Family Physidae

Size: 9 - 15 millimetres ; 0.3 - 0.6 inches

Physa, Physella, Aplexa, Stenophysa, first two ones being the most common subfamilies. The one in the picture is most likely Physa fontinalis. Physids consists of several different species and subfamilies, they all have sinistral shells (when you keep the snail towards you and the spire pointing up, the shell lip/opening points to the left), thin tentacles and they don't usually grow over 2 centimetres/0.8 inches. They are also hermaphroditic and pulmonate, no operculum. They do take air to their lung and you can see them rising to the surface regularly. They also have two hand like mantle lobes extended against the outer side of the shell on both sides of the snail to give more area for exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Physids and Lymnaeidae snails can easily be mixed with each other, they look almost the same and act the same. They also lay same kind of eggs. Clear eggs are inside a jelly like clear clutch and the clutch is usually horseshoe shaped, might be straight too. The eggs are laid on plants, decoration and even on tank walls. You can and you should remove the eggs when you spot them. These can reproduce really fast and might do damage to live plants. Can tolerate brackish water.

Thanks Miss Wiggle, ooh I feel really bad now because if it's going to do damage to all my live plants I'd rather he not be in the tank! I don't want to kill him though, any suggestions of where to put him? Is he fully aquatic or can he live in my outdoor water feature where I don't mind snails living? - Anyone?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

not 100% but i think he'd probably be fine outside.

sometimes you just have to overcome your sqeamishness though, we've a few pest snails in one of our tanks, i squish them up against the glass and the fish will eat it, tasty meaty treat for them. there's very very few fish who won't eat it, and it's no worse than feeding bloodworm or other live foods, even the flake and pellets etc you give them will have some meat in them so it's no worse on your conscience than feeding them that

 

[sussexgirl]

not 100% but i think he'd probably be fine outside.

sometimes you just have to overcome your sqeamishness though, we've a few pest snails in one of our tanks, i squish them up against the glass and the fish will eat it, tasty meaty treat for them. there's very very few fish who won't eat it, and it's no worse than feeding bloodworm or other live foods, even the flake and pellets etc you give them will have some meat in them so it's no worse on your conscience than feeding them that

I'm constantly squishing smaller curled snails against the glass, I'm not against killing snails, it's just that I've watched this little guy grow and he's too bloomin big to squish now No, I"ll just take him out and put him outside and he can take his chances with the the English weather!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

not 100% but i think he'd probably be fine outside.

sometimes you just have to overcome your sqeamishness though, we've a few pest snails in one of our tanks, i squish them up against the glass and the fish will eat it, tasty meaty treat for them. there's very very few fish who won't eat it, and it's no worse than feeding bloodworm or other live foods, even the flake and pellets etc you give them will have some meat in them so it's no worse on your conscience than feeding them that

I'm constantly squishing smaller curled snails against the glass, I'm not against killing snails, it's just that I've watched this little guy grow and he's too bloomin big to squish now No, I"ll just take him out and put him outside and he can take his chances with the the English weather!

ha ha fair enough

 

[xostrawberryox]

Those things are a pain in the bum. They reproduce like no ones business!

 

[themissingelf]

My Cherry Barbs seem to have put an end to these snails breeding (at least they're not multiplying as fast as when they had the tank to themselves).

They've done a great job of clearing algae, so I'm inclined to leave them for the time being.

I know...