[Tanku87]

Found him today after I bought some plant at a lfs.
What is he is he good or bad for my tank.

 

[The Guy]

Looks like a common mystery snail, they multiply like crazy and can infest your tank, either get rid of them as you find them or get yo yo or clown loaches they eat them.

 

[Transposon]

It might be a bladder snail, family Physidae.
I have some that look similar. They don't eat my live plants and help to turn dead rotting leaves to poop. But they did infest my tank very fast...and their eggs are hard to detect in the plants when trying to get rid of them. Usually when you see one, more is coming.

 

[CRS Fan]

It appears to be a radix snail. They are often confused with Physa species. Both are often referred to "Pond or Bladder Snails". The antennae on Radix are pinnate where on Physa they are flattened laterally and conical.

Best regards,

Stuart


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[Tanku87]

Thanks guys. All good then I'll just have to start the hunt now. Or maybe I'll leave them in for a few months as I do have an algae problem.

 

[Geoffrey]

Not all snails eat algae and if they do, they may not do a good job. Later you might also have a snail problem

 

[Tanku87]

Damn.... I guess I have to let it go.

 

[troutsniffer]

Leave it. Let them go nuts. Then get a few assassin snails and watch them go bye bye.

 

[sschlesier]

I recently added some Odessa Barbs to a snail infested tank. They immediately devoured pretty much all the small snails, to my surprise over a few weeks they learned to eat all but the largest pond snails. I now have a tank with a bunch of pretty barbs, a substrate littered with snail shells, and a few snails hiding in the plants.

I'm generally happy to have snails in the tank, and I seem to have struck a lucky natural balance.

Anyway, my point was Odessa Barbs have been a surprisingly effective and attractive form of snail control.

 

[Tanku87]

I like that idea of letting it go and getting barb or assassin snail to control them.
Thanks guys