I've recently noticed that when I have my lights off on my 230 gallon tank for any lengthy duration that tiny white looking snails appear on my glass etc.... As soon as I turn the lights on they begin to disappear. I have crushed white coral as a substrate, anyone have an idea as to what these tiny looking white snails are? Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Little White Snails????
- Thread starter Ghage
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Most likly Trumpet snails, they live in the substrate and come out at night. Mostly harmless but numbers can get out of controll if there is a lot of left over food. Kepp the substrate well vacumed when you do water changes to remove uneaten food and organic matter and numbers shouldn't be to bad.
You be able to tell what type they are once they grow a bit.
They usually harmless, if you don't mind seeing them.
Pros:
They aerate you substrate & keep it clean from left over food.
Cons:
They're prolific breeders when they have a good food source & can quickly take over your substrate.
Do you have any plants?
It could be pond snails.
Trumpet snails will have a cone shape, while ponds will look like a normal snail but flat.
Apple snail also look like a normal snail too.
What you do to trap them:
Place a bowl with lettuce in your tank @ night.
Wait a few hour or even leave it over night.
But remove the bowl before the lights go on.
Repeat until your happy.
You can also buy a few different types of loaches that luv to eat most snails,or find a friend who keeps loaches who's looking for treats.
Puffer like snails too, but most puffers don't do well with cichlids.
If they're not trumpets you can give them to puffer keepers too.
Trumpet snail can break the beaks of puffers.
If you have no takers, I usually try to kill them, I don't like to introduce foreign creatures into my native habitat.
Boil them, they're pests.
They usually harmless, if you don't mind seeing them.
Pros:
They aerate you substrate & keep it clean from left over food.
Cons:
They're prolific breeders when they have a good food source & can quickly take over your substrate.
Do you have any plants?
It could be pond snails.
Trumpet snails will have a cone shape, while ponds will look like a normal snail but flat.
Apple snail also look like a normal snail too.
What you do to trap them:
Place a bowl with lettuce in your tank @ night.
Wait a few hour or even leave it over night.
But remove the bowl before the lights go on.
Repeat until your happy.
You can also buy a few different types of loaches that luv to eat most snails,or find a friend who keeps loaches who's looking for treats.
Puffer like snails too, but most puffers don't do well with cichlids.
If they're not trumpets you can give them to puffer keepers too.
Trumpet snail can break the beaks of puffers.
If you have no takers, I usually try to kill them, I don't like to introduce foreign creatures into my native habitat.
Boil them, they're pests.
Sometimes they are called Malayan live bearing snails, and are white when young but turn brownish when larger. As Red Devil said, they keep the substrate from going anoxic, but can become overabundant. I had a 150 gallon tank almost un-see-throughable just before the lights came on. A couple Paretroplus menerambo took care of that over night.
P maculatus would do the same.
P maculatus would do the same.
Google Malaysian Trumpet snails(MLS for short).
Most snails I've seen are white when small.
Are they in with your GT?
Mine ate snail I used to give him as treats.
Most snails I've seen are white when small.
Are they in with your GT?
Mine ate snail I used to give him as treats.