Can Someone Identify This Snail?

G-skrilla

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I know it's tough with the pictures but it's too small and it's my camera phone. It's brown with yellow spots on the shell.
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x447/G-skrilla/5cd9be15.jpg
 
Here's another.
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x447/G-skrilla/aaf1973f.jpg
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x447/G-skrilla/5cd9be15.jpg
 
i'm no snail expert, but id say that's a common pond snail. I'll move this over to the snail section. :good:
 
i'm no snail expert, but id say that's a common pond snail. I'll move this over to the snail section. :good:
Oh no. They're bad right.

Yep, that's a pond snail. And they can get out of hand very quickly, especially if you have a tendency to overfeed. I just got some assassin snails, and they're starting to go to town.
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Pond snails are algae feeders some subspecies develop a taste for plants. They fill a niche in the ecosystem and the population will grow if you have high wastage of food and be minimal if you don't. I like them and add them to my tanks purposely.
 
yeah pond snail i have a few of these i found them nice to watch while my tank was cycling but then noticed ramshorns too so got some assassin snails to keep them in check after a few days they have now started to eat them, assassin look nice too and are really fun to watch them do there base jumping thing lol
 

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