Help identifying snail baby!

[KeiraHutton]

Can anyone help me identify this baby snail? We have 2 nerites and 3 rabbit snails in the tank but we recently had a new delivery of live plants and I’m wondering if this is a pest that’s made it’s way in to the tank on those!

 

[Essjay]

It's a bladder/trapdoor/tadpole/pond snail. It could be a physid or limnaeid species but their behaviour is pretty much the same. Their numbers will get out of control if you let them. The best way to stop them getting out of control is by not over feeding the fish.

More info here, look at the first two species.

Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

(Thread rework in progress - please pardon our dust!) Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby (Two Clea helena assassin snails and a Planorbid ramshorn - photo by CassCats) Index Basic Terminology for Identification Physidae: Bladder Snails and Tadpole Snails Lymnaeidae: Pond Snails...

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[KeiraHutton]

It's a bladder/trapdoor/tadpole/pond snail. It could be a physid or limnaeid species but their behaviour is pretty much the same. Their numbers will get out of control if you let them. The best way to stop them getting out of control is by not over feeding the fish.

More info here, look at the first two species.

Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby

(Thread rework in progress - please pardon our dust!) Freshwater Snail Species In The Hobby (Two Clea helena assassin snails and a Planorbid ramshorn - photo by CassCats) Index Basic Terminology for Identification Physidae: Bladder Snails and Tadpole Snails Lymnaeidae: Pond Snails...

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Thanks so much for this I’m going to crush him and keep an eye out. There’s been more food than normal in the tank this week as we have guppy fry.

 

[FranciscoB]

It is a physid, Physella cf acuta. Left coiling makes easy recognition. Note that it cannot be a trapdoor, as that implies the presence of an operculum (trapdoor), which this one lacks. Harmless but a nuisance.

 

[KeiraHutton]

It is a physid, Physella cf acuta. Left coiling makes easy recognition. Note that it cannot be a trapdoor, as that implies the presence of an operculum (trapdoor), which this one lacks. Harmless but a nuisance.

Thank you, I got rid of it. Hoping it was just this one that made its way in on a plant

 

[FishandBirdLover]

Bladder snails, I have too many.

 

[itiwhetu]

I used to worry about them, but now I don't care. If I over feed, they clean up the mess.