Couple Snail Pics

[vancouver]

I got this one today.. not in the greatest shape.. was the only one moving in the tank so thought I'd buy it just for fun

big blue one

nicest one with this specific coloring

the other new one as of today.. I think it's a nerite snail

big blue and small blue

3 young spixis

 

[~T~]

Nice on man, my girlfriend recently lost her blue brig(Millhouse)and she was absolutley devastated.I really like the blue ones, shes got a couple of those pink ones 3rd and 4th pic and loads of the dark foot purples.Yeh thats a nerite alright but im not so sure of your spixis, they look a bit too long and pointed unless they get more apple shaped as they grow.

 

[vancouver]

I'm sorta assuming they are spixis.. Someone gave me a leaf with some eggs on it, and showed me a picture of the adult snails. They looked like spixis, but who knows. They hatched about a month ago.. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

I really like the blues too.. Been trying to find blue ramshorns for awhile.. Couple of us locally have been asking every LFS we go into if they can order them for us..

I wonder why more people don't keep snails.. underrated I guess.

 

[~T~]

Just watch with the rams, they breed to biblical proportions and will actually attack any weak apple snails.My missus started out with a blue, a leopard spotted and 2 reds and in a few months we had hundreds.Smaller ones would go inside the apple snails trapdoors and eat away at them.We ended up chucking them in a local pond.I still have a large leopard spotted living in my shrimp/galaxy rasbora tank though.IMO they are more trouble than they are worth.

 

[shaz3271]

these are spixi

 

[vancouver]

I do remember someone telling me ramshorns might crawl up into the brigs and eat them, but I didn't think it would happen..

Even finding red ramshorns around here has been tough..

 

[~T~]

I do remember someone telling me ramshorns might crawl up into the brigs and eat them, but I didn't think it would happen..

Even finding red ramshorns around here has been tough..

Oh they do, my girlfriends were in a net breeder while we decided what to do with them, one of her big female purple brigs must have climbed in at one point and the rams ate it alive

 

[vancouver]

Well thats no good.. Maybe if I find them I'll have to keep them separately..

I'm moving all the brigs/spixis/nerites/mts to a 40g when I get rid of the fish in there now..

Then I'll have an empty 10g.. maybe I can stick ramshorns in that tank with some shrimp or somethin.

 

[~T~]

Well thats no good.. Maybe if I find them I'll have to keep them separately..

I'm moving all the brigs/spixis/nerites/mts to a 40g when I get rid of the fish in there now..

Then I'll have an empty 10g.. maybe I can stick ramshorns in that tank with some shrimp or somethin.

Yeh thats a more sensible option, my big leopard ram(Gary)seems peaceful enough and doesnt bother my shrimp and they dont bother him.When they get bigger they actually slow right down(even for a snail)and thier shells seem to get too heavy for them and the lie on their side a lot.Unless its just mine are crazy inbreds, some were pink with blue spots.

 

[vancouver]

I have some ghost shrimp in now with all the snails.. Thought I'd test the snails with cheap shrimp first.

When you say big ram are you talking marissa snail? Some people call the marissas giant ramshorns

 

[~T~]

I have some ghost shrimp in now with all the snails.. Thought I'd test the snails with cheap shrimp first.

When you say big ram are you talking marissa snail? Some people call the marissas giant ramshorns

Nope hes a common ramshorn(planorbid?).And when I say big I just mean adult.

 

[vancouver]

ok got it

 

[Tommo]

The snails that you thought to be spixis appear to be pond snails. If the eggs were little brown dots in a transparent, sticky, coating then this is probably the case.

 

[severum boy]

As Tommo says, they are pond snails, Lymnaea sp.
The snails are lovely, I really like the adult blue, ive just brought some babys (thanks again Sharon), and seeing an adult shows what they will beigin to look like in a bit.

 

[RESGuy]

Nice snails. At the moment I only have common pond snails. 10 hitchhiked with some plants I put in the tank and they laid eggs everywhere now I have 35+ baby pond snails all over the tank lol But they are cool, I keep them with my RCS. I would not keep snails with Ghost Shrimp if you plan on breeding them though. Before I had my snails with RCS I had them with 10 Ghost Shrimp and the ghosts found the "egg sacks" and completely destroyed them and ate the eggs. Ghost shrimp are known to be scavengers but RCS WILL NOT eat eggs. Picture below: