Curious thing happened today. I was looking in my most established tank today, observing the new algae growth on the driftwood when I noticed something odd clinging to the wood. I looked closely and to my horror it was what looked like a pond snail. I noticed two more of the buggers clinging to the driftwood nearby. We picked them out and sent em packing but Im confused as to how they got there to begin with. Nothing new at all has come into any of our aquariums in months. No plants, no fish, no deco, nothing. We only keep ramshorn snails and have never had pond snails up until this point. How the heck did they get there?
Snails from thin .. water?
- Thread starter Alistriwen
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They likely just avoided your eye. What type of ramshorns are you keeping, as the columbian ramshorn snails will devastate a plant.
I have real ramshorns, with one set of antenae. They leave the plants alone but algae beware, these ramshorns are hungry! Five or Six adults keep a 20 gal algae free. That said, is it really possible pond snails have been dormant in my tank for 6 months? Nothing should really have changed in the tank recently to make them pop up except maybe that new algae on the driftwood lol.. This particular tank has been ramshorn free because the plants generally kept the algae in check but the new red stuff seems to be thriving on the driftwood. Could it be they appeared in response to this? If so any ideas? Im having enough trouble with camallanus (sp?) worms in one tank and a fish with intestinal parasites.. all of which popped up in the space of a week.. sigh..
FYI, both species of ramshorn are still ramshorn snails. Snails won't lay dormant in an egg form for more than a few weeks. It is more likely that they have been in the tank ll along, but hiding from sight. Through a potato wedge in there over night, and you'll be able to pull them out quite easily.
Must be damn good hiders if that's the case lol. We've done 100% water change. 100% deco change and god knows how many water changes. I was led to believe columbian Ramshorns were not truely part of the ramshorn family but I'm not any kind of expert so I can't say for sure.