Keep in mind. The amount of ponds you find (natural little ponds) are full of snails and healthy plants .. its all about a balance. I dont think any snails are pest unless they hurting fish with parasites. as for plants, they usual only eat dead leaves.
Ramshorns have eaten healthy plants in my tank. Trumpet snails never eat healthy plants only dead ones. Trumpet snails are pretty much impossible to get rid of once you have them.
I was about to say. If you have pest snails, just get a pea puffer. Most effective way to eradicate snails lol. I actually recommend starting a colony of pest snails first before adding puffers, especially those snails that are prolific breeders. Your puffer will always have food then.
Still one of my favorite videos on your channel; I re-watch it every few months. This video has helped me help so many of my own customers, in troubleshooting their tanks. You are an amazing person and a priceless resource to our hobby. Thank you. For being you, for doing what you do, and sharing your love for the hobby, and inspiring me and others like me, every day. Happy New Year~
I've got bladder snails in my setup, but they don't seem to be hurting my plants at all. (as a matter of fact they really helped knock down my hair algae problem)
I had Malaysian trumpet snails sneak into an aquarium years ago, had several aquariums since, and the offspring of those original few are still going today... Even after having no tanks for a long time, they survived in a bucket of gravel in the garage for a very long time. Now I have a large turtle and American cichlid set up, my musk turtle spends his days digging for snails. The snails are also a huge help on breaking down solids. Have also put a few in my African tank. The thing is with these snails, you don't even know they're there, until you clean your canister and start picking them out.
At one time in my fish life, I had snails that actually caught guppies to eat. NO JOKE. They would float and if one could attach to an eating or sick guppy, the others would pile on and eat it. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just have a mystery snail. Love him/it.
Thanks Rachel. That was really helpful. Got a few bladder snails when I added plants to my newly cycled tank. I left them as I figured they would help clear up some algae. They have done a good job, but have increased in number very quickly. So some of them have got to go. Was thinking of adding a pea puffer, but I don't think it will be a good fit for my community tank in the long run. The plants seem healthy, so going try increasing my maintenance, and cutting back on my feeding ( have been away from the hobby for 30+yrs, so it will take me a minute to figure that out. )
I love snails, they eat the extra food and help keep smaller tanks clean and less likely to crash. I think they're cute too. Also if you're going to eradicate your snails, remember to feed less food because there won't be snails left to eat it all and it will rot and produce ammonia. (Yes that's why you had so many snails, you were overfeeding.)
I once havent fed my 2 angelfishes for a couple days on purpose so they turn to eating bladder snails and snail eggs. Now they happily pluck snails keeping a balance in my aquarium. Angelfishes are curious eaters so definitely introduce those snails to them 😄.
Rachel you should really do a video about the good and really sweet looking snails for the aquarium, like rabbit snails, Brotia Pagodula, different nerites, etc.. should be an awesome video... keep it going. Love the vids you're making
Dani I love my little horned nerite it's nice and smaller than the bigger nerite. I hope I can get more horned nerites. I also like the Japanese helmet looking nerite it's interesting. I miss my lovely pair of mini rabbit snails. I should have known better when I added the assassin snail to take care of the trumpet problem. I want my mini rabbit snails. ive seen some Brotia at MLF store but I I think they're too big for my 10 gallon. I wanna try to keep things small
I see this vlog is nearly 3 years old BUT what GREAT, lasting info!! Thank you so, SO much. You went well beyond every other vlog I have watched and I feel more secure in my own knowledge now for what I am dealing with. One thing I didn't catch is, how long to decrease feeding to get rid of the trumpet snails? Boy, did I mess up putting in four little snails, which are now enjoying the sand as a nursery in the hundreds! Word to the unwise....do your research FIRST! :0)~
Hi Rachel, I really enjoyed this video. I have the bladder and the rams horn snails and I agree with you. They are part of the natural tank but increase happens when something is out of wack! LOL overfeeding, more water changes, and sometimes ,I have plant decay or miss a dead fish. Yep, I hand pick the bladder snails out and keep the rams horns usually. some of mine have a shiny bronze shell. pretty I think
The water in my area is so soft that bladder snails do not manage to reproduce and they die pretty quickly. This happened with bladder snails that came along with some plants I ordered. While it does drastically limit the amount of species of fish I can keep. It also makes snail pest control very easy :D
Thanks for the content. Really appreciate it. I had a few snails in my 25g aquarium and wanted to get rid of them. After seeing this video I decided to keep them and cut back on feeding and doing some more maintenance on my tanks more frequently. Thanks again
I definitely need a little clean up crew in my 5 gallon planted tank. I think I am going to add MTS and ramshorn to it. I am the worst at overfeeding. I only have a betta in there at the moment, so when I feed frozen foods there tends to be more than I like leftover, or it hides in the nooks and crannies of my eco complete substrate. I have noticed some detritus worms (which tells me there is too much leftover food). In the future I may add a Nerite variety (but a little unsure at the moment). I think I may add a few other fish as well to help eat the food (something small that goes well with a betta).
Very helpful video. I setup my DIY acrylic tank a couple months ago and now have a pond snail population in it. The tank is planted with various val species, java fern, anubias, and some bolbitus. I usually just let the snails live in the tank. It seems that they help a bunch with newly planted tanks since a lot of the plants that I use seem to die back when first introduced to my aquariums. I've also noticed that the longer the aquarium has been setup the smaller the population of snails I'll have remaining. I wasn't sure which snail I had until I watched you video. Without a doubt they are the pond snail so I now have three different pest snails in three different aquariums lol. Trumpets in my bolivian ram tank. These were actually put there on purpose by me. My favorite pest snail. Bladder snails in my Buenos aires tetra tank although there are very few in there. Now pond snails in the platinum angel tank. Not sure if I'll just leave them be and see if their numbers dwindle over time or start to remove them using your trap method or manually but great to know the options. Thank you for the information. I really appreciate all that you do.
Great video. I had a problem with buying the wrong plants (ludwigia repens) for my lighting and ended up with lots of diatoms and dead leaves. Combine that with apparently overfeeding fussy fish (some prefer flakes over NLS pellets) and now I'm constantly removing 10 or more bladder snails a day from my 20g high tank. I picked up one of those ISTA snail traps and am planning on getting some amano shrimp to assist with getting the bottom cleaned up. My nerite snails are doing a good job on the glass. Vacuuming and 50% water change each week. Really hoping that the trap and shrimp will do the trick. Hunting bladder snails with a turkey baster is a good time killer though ...
This was excellent! Thank you!! I had my community tank controlled with 1 mystery and a few nerites. Bought some plants at the aquarium and noticed 24 hours later TONS of what looked like baby snails on the log the java was on so I immediately took it out and returned to store. Needless to say, I suddenly started finding what I now know to be ramshorn and bladder snails everywhere. My tank looks amazing but I do have plants that are suddenly not doing well so this was great info for me to take some steps. Love snails but of course don’t need hundreds and hundreds of them. So again thanks for the info!!
Very informative video. I kinda like the snails and the trumpets are my favorites out of the ones that I've picked up from purchasing plants from the LFS. I've been lucky and haven't had them go crazy in either of my tanks. I guess it's been luck or routine maintenance
Great Video! Extremely helpful! I have been in the fish hobby for about 25 years and I have avoided planting aquariums because I had a huge snail problem once many years ago. I recently decided to plant one of my 8 aquariums, I rinsed each plant very well before putting them in the aquarium; well about 3 months after I planted the aquarium I found one snail with 4 clutches of eggs inside a clear jar I had for decoration. I removed the jar. I didn’t see any other snails or eggs anywhere else, but I’m not very confident because they are very difficult to spot and I have black sand in the planted aquarium which helps them camouflage even more. Thanks for these great tips. I’ll definitely be setting a trap!
I've tried a variety of foods to 'attract' the snails to the traps. The best I found was banana skin, the browner, the better. Will cloud up your water for a few days, but works the best.
Thanks for the info. Our 20 gallon tank was recently infested with ramshorn snails, likely coincided with an on-line purchase of red-leaf floaters that decayed after several weeks. Although the snails had initially appeared to be pests, I believe they solved our pH problem - the pH would always stay up around 7.8, and I would rather it was
Kuhli loach's have done quite well in my community for killing off bladder snails. They love the eggs. Kuhli's have become my favorite bottom feeder. In groups of 20 plus there great for string up that top layer. Ill agree, i dont consider snails to be pests at all. I find them essential in my dirted tanks. As you say, its an indicator.
Khulis wont harm the larger snails. What they do is eliminate all the eggs and very small snails before their shells harden. They are only a tool to manage pest snails in a manner thats beneficial to your system. Nor will you see them do this as they hunt when its totally dark. Its what they do in nature. So all you have to do is remove the larger ones and your problem is solved. Water bottle trap is still the easiest way to catch adults. Clown loaches kill every snail, inducing those you want to keep.
+Andrew Ingalls Watson never wanted to keep snails, they're a pest to me and they eat plants, destroyed my amazon swords so that's when I got clowns to rid them. Never had a snail problem since.
This is a great video chicky! When I was new to this hobby I did get lots of snails because I was ridiculously over feeding my tank I learned tons of lessons in the planted tank hobby. What I have learned is all of these snails are a potential threat but if you can not go crazy feeding your fish they all can be beneficial I have three or more species of thes guys and they are kept in check by my every three day feeding regimen. In the past I used to throw in a loach to bring them down in population but now I just do not feed the tank as much and the use of shrimps as cleaners usually out eat these snails so the tanks don't get crazy with them anymore. I have apple snails, trumpets, rams horns the rams get big fast but if you slow the feeding they will stall or slow right down. I love fish tanks and the beauty they bring to your home snails are helpers for me they keep the algae down and my glass clean as crystal Balance with these creatures is key.
Thank you Rachel, I put 5 rams horn snails in my tank 6 months ago. Within 2 months I had HUNDREDS in the tank. I am still trying to get rid of them. Snail traps didn’t work. I am currently using cucumber in the tank at night which works a bit. I even took all of the stones in the tank out and left it in the sun ( in the Northern Territory australia) for 48 hours but I must have missed one because they are still breeding!
Thanks for the great advice! I just recently found my first few in my new tank after heavy planting I believe they're Leopard ramshorns I've just put them in my quarantine tank as a maintenance crew!
Thank you for this. I got a "bonsai" tree from my LFS which I'm absolutely in love with however it came with some hitchhikers and now they're eating my new growth on my plants. I like that my mystery snails eat dying leaves, but these other guys are punks! I've been manually removing them but I'm gonna try the water bottle trick tonight. Thanks again! Love your channel!
I found a bunch of beautiful snails randomly in my local little park. There was at least 50 of them and they honestly looked dumped into a small little water patch from sprinklers. I scooped them up and gave them a new home. Many didn’t make it but the ones that did, they have the beautiful iridescent green and brown shells and I love them so much. Two of them are also as you described about as big as nickels the others are just really fast and possibly bladder snails compared to the very slow big looking snails. So two different snails and I’m so happy with them! The best find I ever found in the local park was free aquatic snails! :)
Awesome info! I have MTS taking over a 20 gallon , and those bladder snails trying to take over my planted pond...but I'll be trying that bottle trap tonight!
Rachel thank you for your videos, I want to one day open my own freshwater fish store in my city, there are not many options and your videos inspire me. This is a true hobby for me and I hope I can be like you one day
Great info on snails! Thanks Rachel. The MTS do a wonderful job of keeping my sand substrate clean and turned over. My tank even smells cleaner after I added them and my stem plants seem to be doing better. I just got my first rams horn snail 🐌, a pretty leopard pattern. He hitched a ride on some java moss I purchased. I'm quite impressed with how well he keeps the algae cleaned off my larger Anubias.
Thank you! You are so informative and thorough. I just found two snails in my tank. I think I’ll keep an eye on them. As long as they don’t eat my plants, we are ok.
I got some bladder snails/pond snails on the plant and was kind of upset at first but I have fish with shrimp and tend to over feed a little to make sure the shrimp get something so it’s kind of nice because pretty much whatever you throw in there the snails will clean it up. When they get to be too many I just suck them out when I’m cleaning the tank every week or when I feed them cucumbers or something on a skewer the snails usually cover it and I can just throw it out with them on it. I have narite nails to but they kill my cholawood. I don’t really mind them, I sort of wish they weren’t there because they grow like crazy but they keep the tank sort of clean too so I don’t hate them.
Malaysians trumpet snails are great, i guess i do a good job on not overfeeding because i don't see many lately, i hope they are not all dead! Keep up with your great videos!
bladder snail have been eating all of the new leaves on my Java fern, they leave the large older leaves alone but the soft new ones are things favorite snack.
I have bladder/pond snails and rams horns. They don't bother me and help keep the tanks clean. I also have assassin snails that eat them off if the population explodes from over feeding.
One of my most problematic problems were those mini ramshorn snails, not sure if it had something to do with the water I had but they bred like crazy (slight overfeeding might've been the other factor), I had easily over a thousand in a 5 gallon tank (though it was over 10 years ago) and it was a never ending battlle of removing them from the tank. I guess I got them with plants I bought back then (gravel and driftwood were boiled), even thought I tried to clean them under tap water.
nice video, thx for sharing. now I know the snails in my aquarium is mini ramshorn. I used to call them ramshorn. anyway those mini ramshorn really multiply a lot lately, lots of eggs on glass and lots of tiny fry. maybe I over feed a little.
I did the assassin snail route. Just 2 of them took care of my problems. Rarely see another type snail in my tank now. Assassins breed MUCH MUCH slower than pond/pest snails..... Then do cool stuff more often like floating at the surface for food, then poping out their air bubble to sink when they grab food. Is the coolest thing I've seen a snail do. Cooler when it gets caught in a cyclone of sorts and u see the snail twisting about.
I think the two pest snails I like, are Pond Snails and Ramshorns. The Ramshorns have nice spiral shells, and decorate the substrate after they’ve expired. While Pond Snails have those triangular antennae, the size they get to is a marvel too.
Ah! I hadn't even started stocking my first tank and already i have lots of little snail friends. Or, well, they do seem to be bladder snails, so maybe not so friendly... they are gorging themselves on some gunk and sad plant leaves rn. I think the plant will bounce back though, and maybe when i start stocking I will grow tired of the snails, but right now they are fun and cute! Thank you for a very informative video, as always!
I purchased a bag of about 20+ ramhorns snail. Ones in my tank died off but the ones i gave to my friend survived. Started a little bit of a more strict water quality control policy and then got some from my friend, they survived that time and ever since then i have had a healthy population of ramshorn snails. They have never completely taken over my tank, and never been so sparse that i struggle to find one. Just figure out how much you actually need to feed your fish and they will be more helpful than harmful.
I bought live plants for my 25 gallon tank and the plants came with a lot of Bladder snails on it so I decided to put as many of them as I could get and I put it in an old betta bowl I had and didn't put any food in it or anything and so far it's worked and a lot of them have died off
Great video! I was wondering though, as a keeper of many snail eating loach species, is there a species of ornamental snail that could safely be kept with them? I was researching the larger sulawesi rabbit snails, but I didn't see much info pertaining to their compatibility.
just brought 10 snails and added then came across this ..... oh joy .... wondering if ive made a mistake . sod it ... got 10 new friends and to be honest looking forward to having loads more
I only keep snails in my aquariums. I am feeding them large chunks of lettuce and watching as the population skyrockets. I have ramshorn in one and bladder and MTS in another. I caught some pond snails from a local lake and i'm gonna get them in after my 3 month quarentine. Though i caught only old ones who laid eggs and died so...... idk if I'm gonna quarentine the eggs. Maybe just the plants.
3 clown loaches do a really great job of cleaning my 39 gallon of snails. I have a small planted 5 gallon though that is a bit overrun, bottle trap is too big so every week I grab the planting tweezers and start pulling them. Seems to work ok. Could you do a quick vid on your siphons?
VERY helpful video. So now I think I have bladder snails, but I also have very small black ones, no clue what they are. The little black ones seem to be multiplying the fastest. I really don't want to squish them. Maybe I could move them to spare tank. Do they need a cycled tank?
Good to hear you had a great time at the convention .... are mini Ramshorn horns avid reproducers? I have a very small nano tank 3 gallons! wth one Betta S. and how much for one mini Ramshorn horn with shipping?
i went with 5 assassin snails in a 30 gallon. They did extremely well and didnt reproduce too fast, so i ended up actually moving them to a sandy planted betta tank and kept a small stock of pest snails around to feed them.
I walked in to my local fish store, and saw a tank they had that was infested with Malaysian trumpet snails, but it just so happened that I had spent weeks looking online for some for sale with no luck. You should’ve seen the look on the owners face when I told him that I actually wanted them on purpose. 😂 I got a small number for free, and I’ve had them for years along with some blue leopard rams horn with only 1 outbreak. 10/10 would do it again
i bought some marimo balls about a month ago and hadn't realized until later that i had a little hitchhiker lol. now i have a little bladder snail named gary. he hasn't been a pain at all and is so interesting to watch
Look up " Thiara Cancelatta " and "Bellyama Bengalensis" I have both, love them. Thiara Cancelatta( hairy trumpet snail) only seem to breed in brackish water and dig like MTS, but get as big as nerites.
I like snails, the more the better. I have had Cichlids for a long time, which meant I could never have snails. Now I have another tank (10 gallons) with plants, shrimp, and snails and I like the snails just as much as I thought I would. I bought some Ramshorn Snails and they are bigger than I thought; they lay eggs but they don't seem to hatch. I bought a plant and got three teeny tiny itty bitty Malaysian Trumpet Snails, and I would like to have a lot more and bigger ones. I bought some Mystery Snails and those are very interesting to watch eat, and the Gold ones are very outgoing, and one of them laid some eggs last night. 🎉 I also have two Spixi Snails, which are much smaller and slower and not outgoing at all, and one laid a few eggs, maybe 20, on a plant and I have spent weeks waiting for them to hatch, but nothing so far. They might be eating the Ramshorn snail eggs, I don't know. And I have some pond snails that I caught myself and they lay eggs on everything and they hatch. I even have a golden-shelled one, which I hope will have more. If I could find other kinds of snails, then I would get them too.
when my 37 was a heavily planted and high-light setup, I had orange and yellow ramshorns in there. they're neat little snails and left pretty much all of my plants alone as long as they were healthy. they were actually pretty good at taking care of dying or dead leaves. they laid their eggs mainly on the glass, and a quick swipe of a razor blade or algae scraper took care of that...plus the really little ones are easy to squish against the glass of the tank.
I don't know what kind of terminator snails I had, but snail traps had too large a gap for them to get trapped, so it only really was a food source for them. They ate ALL my plants, and when I put assassin snails in, one day I woke up to hollowed out assassin snail shells, and half a dozen of those pests in and around each shell. The largest of them were not even two tenths of an inch, while the typical size was one tenth of an inch.
Your trap with catching them in a bottle is amazing and has really helped my snail problem, rather than killing them is there anywhere you can release them without issue
Thanks Rachel. I’ve always thought of snails as pest. I have a 30 and 20 gallon planted tank, the 30 is snail free but I have algae issues my 20 is full of bladder snails but no algae. I took some plants from my 30 that were covered in black hair algae put them in my 20 and in 3 or so days the plants looked like new, it never dawned on me the snails were cleaning the plants until I saw your video. I’m going to add some donkey snail and see how it works out thanks again
I got some duckweed out of a pet store a while back and a bunch of tiny baby snails popped up, I have no idea what kind they are and they're still pretty small but they're growing rapidly. The biggest one I have that I can tell the colors of has a speckled shell
I like those 'mini' ramshorns myself and I thank you so much for the species name! I've been trying to find it for ages. Never seen one larger than about 1/4". They're unobtrusive and do no harm I can see. Most of the one I have are red with clear shells and given that I keep mostly very minute fish species, they're an appropriate size, especially in a nano tank :-). Standard ramshorns are very useful, I think. I read a neat article and later heard a lecture on using them with Cory cat eggs as clean up crew in place of using antifungals like Meth blue. They don't eat healthy eggs but do eat any fungus that may appear. Natural fungus control, how can you not love that? Btw, I find there are more than two MTS type snails. I have at least 3 types so far. One of them grows rather large, some to more than 1.5 inches long with a foot close to a half inch in diameter. At first I thought they were rabbit snails but they aren't, they're MTS or something very closely related. Their shells are a dull olive colour without stripes but do have dots on them. Another type is a rich dark mahogany brown with a deeply ridged shell; greatly resembles a baby Orange Poso rabbit snail but it only grows to roughly 3/4" in length. They're very dark in the body too and rather attractive really; plus, they don't show up on a dark substrate the way the most common MTS does, especially the one with the light beige shell and rusty stripe marks. The Limnea species of snail that you mention, does it have a light grey-colour body? I see snails like that now and then but they have appeared to be major plant nibblers and thus I have not encouraged them. The ones I see have a pale grey body, pale grey shell and short, fat tentacles. They grow a lot larger than the bladder snail does, certainly, but I've never allowed one to grow to full size. They are slower to reproduce, for sure.
I had two types of invasive snails in my two tanks and I had added a bit of salt to my larger tank to help a slightly injured fish. ALL the (either bladder or pond snail per your video) died off in the large tank. I had placed two large specimens in my smaller tank to combat algae and they exploded in that tank. Now I have each species separated in each tank. Guessing it's the salinity they can take. Not sure what the ones I have left in the large tank are though, white/grey with round shells
Great vid! I'm about to move my fish into their shiny new tank from their old home, which is currently full of malaysian trumpets! Still torn on whether or not to bring them over...
Great vid, very informative and helpful, one thing I'd like to suggest is when describing size it would be much easier for us international viewers (Hi from Australia!) if you could describe sizes in inches or centimeters(cm)/millimeter(mm), it would make for a much easier form of reference since I personally had no idea how big a nickle was, turns out its .835 inches or roughly 21mm, the more you know!
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Thanks for this video. i just discovered a mini ramshorn in my new tank that I believe came with some Buce I ordered. I’m kinda sorry I crushed it now before watching this video. I didnt really need it though. I have nerites and my beloved Mystery snails. I will make that trap for bladder snails I have in my shrimp tank though.
I've had ramshorn snail and they produce a lot. I had to buy assassin snails to get rid of them which helped a lot. Now I have 2 assassin snails and no ramshorn snails. It's been months and my 2 assassins are still alive. Never reproduce either. So still have the 2 I bought a while ago. I did buy nerite to clean my tank.
The comment section is full of cringe. The bladder snails have reproduced in my EMPTY tank for months and there's been no feeding at all. The only thing they can be relying on at this point is algae growth, and they're obviously only skimming over that enough to get enough to grow and reproduce, repeat process for each snail. They don't even take the algae completely off of anything they happen to crawl over, to the point there is no visual evidence they did it at all. I have a total of three small live plants in the last few weeks they've eaten the rotten leaves off of, and then didn't complete that job at all, actually leaving most of the rot to move on and....repopulate. And you guys can "embrace" these snails all you want to. I actually like trumpets myself. But PLEASE WARN your potential victims of the fact you grew your plants in a tank with these snails if you sell them or take them to the pet store. Mine came in on plants and I was not warned and needless to say, wasn't impressed by the seller at all afterwards.
I am 64 and have been keeping aquaria and vivaria since I was 5 years old. I have always liked snails and had them in my freshwater tanks. I have had everything but nerite snails at one time or another; mystery, trumpet, trapdoor, ramshorn and black pond. I have had massive numbers of pond and ramshorns in tanks at times, but just smashing them and letting the fish eat the bodies or tossing to fish like puffers has always done the trick. Squashing the egg cases of pond and ramshorn snails works too. At one time I had about 200 gold mystery snails in a 55 gal and that was too many, but I got three dojo loaches (had no idea they ate snails at the time) and they eliminated all babies. I gave 100 away, so the population without any reproduction going on, gradually dropped to just one large adult. I missed them so I bought another young gold mystery snail and set them up to breed in a nano tank, along with 2 trap door and a bunch of malaysian trumpet snails. Still looking for some nice ramshorn snails to add to that tank. If they get too over populated, I can just toss the young ones to the dojo loaches in the 55 gal. I always have fish that like lots of veggies, so I usually have leaf lettuce or raw spinach floating in the tanks so i have never had an issue with snails eating live plants.
I got lucky when I put aquatic plants in my aquarium because along with the plants was a good supply of ramshorn snail eggs which hatched. The tank is literally being scrubbed squeaky clean of algae and mulm much better than me doing it manually. I've never seen such active voracious snails that are growing fast.
I can advocate that those Lesser Ramshorn snails are hard to breed, I've had a good 5 of these snails for 4 months in my 54L tank. And they're chill as, they move around and don't do much. I think they're cool since it adds another layer of life like an ecosystem to the aquarium
Hi Rachel I just subbed to your channel I watched the pest snail video and I think my problem is the ram horn something is eating my plants,I have mystery,Those ram horn brown& this other small one like u showed.I have been removing with the zucchini I feed my plecos I guess I do as you say and manually remove.Thanks.
Keep in mind.
The amount of ponds you find (natural little ponds) are full of snails and healthy plants .. its all about a balance.
I dont think any snails are pest unless they hurting fish with parasites.
as for plants, they usual only eat dead leaves.
Definitely
Well yes, but also remember there is also an almost endless supply of decaying plant litter on the bottom of ponds at all times for them to eat too
Ramshorns have eaten healthy plants in my tank. Trumpet snails never eat healthy plants only dead ones. Trumpet snails are pretty much impossible to get rid of once you have them.
I added a pea puffer to my tank and it ANNIHILATED all of my pest snails. just empty shells everywhere. It was a savage!
Rank1 lmaooo
I was about to say. If you have pest snails, just get a pea puffer. Most effective way to eradicate snails lol. I actually recommend starting a colony of pest snails first before adding puffers, especially those snails that are prolific breeders. Your puffer will always have food then.
Lol
Cryssa Rose hey! Can you use bladder snails for a continuous cycle like what you do?
Wow..
I actually embrace the "pest" snails. I will purposely introduce them to a tank because I think they are beautiful and very interesting to watch.
Fishy Business I was actually thinking the same, they are beautiful.
You look like a girl use to work with at tj maxx. Is your name Jamie? lmao anyway I'll try the bottle thing
Yep same, I don't even need to clean my tank now the snails keep it so clean and free of algae
I like pest snails too, though I will cull them on occasion if the population size threatens to get out of hand.
they are fast to multiply and you won't like it for sure.
Still one of my favorite videos on your channel; I re-watch it every few months. This video has helped me help so many of my own customers, in troubleshooting their tanks.
You are an amazing person and a priceless resource to our hobby.
Thank you.
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I've got bladder snails in my setup, but they don't seem to be hurting my plants at all. (as a matter of fact they really helped knock down my hair algae problem)
I added mine on purpose and they have not touched my plants but clean up a lot of uneated food in my fry tank.
I added mine on purpose; delicate plants and hardy alike are untroubled by them. Only sick and algae-covered plants get snail'd. Love em!
I have one (accidently) and i have hair algae , he ate a bit of my plant that had a brown spot , but now i hope "they all" will eat
I had Malaysian trumpet snails sneak into an aquarium years ago, had several aquariums since, and the offspring of those original few are still going today... Even after having no tanks for a long time, they survived in a bucket of gravel in the garage for a very long time.
Now I have a large turtle and American cichlid set up, my musk turtle spends his days digging for snails. The snails are also a huge help on breaking down solids. Have also put a few in my African tank.
The thing is with these snails, you don't even know they're there, until you clean your canister and start picking them out.
At one time in my fish life, I had snails that actually caught guppies to eat. NO JOKE. They would float and if one could attach to an eating or sick guppy, the others would pile on and eat it. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just have a mystery snail. Love him/it.
I had thousands of snails in my 75 gallon. They were out of control. I added 6 assassin snails and in no time they annihilated my snail problem.
wantsome480 how o.O
Did this leave thousands of empty snail shells?
Rob Lucas yep
That’s actually pretty cool
@@lillian.catherine what do they eat after the snails are depleted?
Thanks Rachel. That was really helpful. Got a few bladder snails when I added plants to my newly cycled tank. I left them as I figured they would help clear up some algae. They have done a good job, but have increased in number very quickly. So some of them have got to go. Was thinking of adding a pea puffer, but I don't think it will be a good fit for my community tank in the long run. The plants seem healthy, so going try increasing my maintenance, and cutting back on my feeding ( have been away from the hobby for 30+yrs, so it will take me a minute to figure that out. )
I love snails, they eat the extra food and help keep smaller tanks clean and less likely to crash. I think they're cute too. Also if you're going to eradicate your snails, remember to feed less food because there won't be snails left to eat it all and it will rot and produce ammonia. (Yes that's why you had so many snails, you were overfeeding.)
Padric Combest I added the trumpets to stir the sand in my tank and eat up the leftovers. Problem is they're too prolific
Just collect them on the glass after you turn off the lights. Case solved. :)
Teagan Combest I dont know why anyone would kill a snail 😭
they tried to eat my expensive plants...then i beat them to death with hammer :D
i would never harm a snail
I once havent fed my 2 angelfishes for a couple days on purpose so they turn to eating bladder snails and snail eggs. Now they happily pluck snails keeping a balance in my aquarium. Angelfishes are curious eaters so definitely introduce those snails to them 😄.
Rachel you should really do a video about the good and really sweet looking snails for the aquarium, like rabbit snails, Brotia Pagodula, different nerites, etc.. should be an awesome video... keep it going.
Love the vids you're making
Dani I love my little horned nerite it's nice and smaller than the bigger nerite. I hope I can get more horned nerites. I also like the Japanese helmet looking nerite it's interesting. I miss my lovely pair of mini rabbit snails. I should have known better when I added the assassin snail to take care of the trumpet problem. I want my mini rabbit snails. ive seen some Brotia at MLF store but I I think they're too big for my 10 gallon. I wanna try to keep things small
I see this vlog is nearly 3 years old BUT what GREAT, lasting info!! Thank you so, SO much. You went well beyond every other vlog I have watched and I feel more secure in my own knowledge now for what I am dealing with. One thing I didn't catch is, how long to decrease feeding to get rid of the trumpet snails? Boy, did I mess up putting in four little snails, which are now enjoying the sand as a nursery in the hundreds! Word to the unwise....do your research FIRST! :0)~
Until you have the numbers where you want them to be
Hi Rachel, I really enjoyed this video. I have the bladder and the rams horn snails and I agree with you. They are part of the natural tank but increase happens when something is out of wack! LOL overfeeding, more water changes, and sometimes ,I have plant decay or miss a dead fish. Yep, I hand pick the bladder snails out and keep the rams horns usually. some of mine have a shiny bronze shell. pretty I think
I love your channel. Very informative and direct to the point.
The water in my area is so soft that bladder snails do not manage to reproduce and they die pretty quickly. This happened with bladder snails that came along with some plants I ordered. While it does drastically limit the amount of species of fish I can keep. It also makes snail pest control very easy :D
Thanks for the content. Really appreciate it. I had a few snails in my 25g aquarium and wanted to get rid of them. After seeing this video I decided to keep them and cut back on feeding and doing some more maintenance on my tanks more frequently.
Thanks again
I definitely need a little clean up crew in my 5 gallon planted tank. I think I am going to add MTS and ramshorn to it. I am the worst at overfeeding. I only have a betta in there at the moment, so when I feed frozen foods there tends to be more than I like leftover, or it hides in the nooks and crannies of my eco complete substrate. I have noticed some detritus worms (which tells me there is too much leftover food). In the future I may add a Nerite variety (but a little unsure at the moment). I think I may add a few other fish as well to help eat the food (something small that goes well with a betta).
Very helpful video. I setup my DIY acrylic tank a couple months ago and now have a pond snail population in it. The tank is planted with various val species, java fern, anubias, and some bolbitus. I usually just let the snails live in the tank. It seems that they help a bunch with newly planted tanks since a lot of the plants that I use seem to die back when first introduced to my aquariums. I've also noticed that the longer the aquarium has been setup the smaller the population of snails I'll have remaining. I wasn't sure which snail I had until I watched you video. Without a doubt they are the pond snail so I now have three different pest snails in three different aquariums lol. Trumpets in my bolivian ram tank. These were actually put there on purpose by me. My favorite pest snail. Bladder snails in my Buenos aires tetra tank although there are very few in there. Now pond snails in the platinum angel tank. Not sure if I'll just leave them be and see if their numbers dwindle over time or start to remove them using your trap method or manually but great to know the options. Thank you for the information. I really appreciate all that you do.
Great video.
I had a problem with buying the wrong plants (ludwigia repens) for my lighting and ended up with lots of diatoms and dead leaves.
Combine that with apparently overfeeding fussy fish (some prefer flakes over NLS pellets) and now I'm constantly removing 10 or more bladder snails a day from my 20g high tank.
I picked up one of those ISTA snail traps and am planning on getting some amano shrimp to assist with getting the bottom cleaned up.
My nerite snails are doing a good job on the glass.
Vacuuming and 50% water change each week.
Really hoping that the trap and shrimp will do the trick.
Hunting bladder snails with a turkey baster is a good time killer though ...
This was excellent! Thank you!! I had my community tank controlled with 1 mystery and a few nerites. Bought some plants at the aquarium and noticed 24 hours later TONS of what looked like baby snails on the log the java was on so I immediately took it out and returned to store. Needless to say, I suddenly started finding what I now know to be ramshorn and bladder snails everywhere. My tank looks amazing but I do have plants that are suddenly not doing well so this was great info for me to take some steps. Love snails but of course don’t need hundreds and hundreds of them. So again thanks for the info!!
Very informative video. I kinda like the snails and the trumpets are my favorites out of the ones that I've picked up from purchasing plants from the LFS. I've been lucky and haven't had them go crazy in either of my tanks. I guess it's been luck or routine maintenance
That's a sign you're taking good care of your tanks.
Great Video! Extremely helpful! I have been in the fish hobby for about 25 years and I have avoided planting aquariums because I had a huge snail problem once many years ago. I recently decided to plant one of my 8 aquariums, I rinsed each plant very well before putting them in the aquarium; well about 3 months after I planted the aquarium I found one snail with 4 clutches of eggs inside a clear jar I had for decoration. I removed the jar. I didn’t see any other snails or eggs anywhere else, but I’m not very confident because they are very difficult to spot and I have black sand in the planted aquarium which helps them camouflage even more. Thanks for these great tips.
I’ll definitely be setting a trap!
I've tried a variety of foods to 'attract' the snails to the traps. The best I found was banana skin, the browner, the better. Will cloud up your water for a few days, but works the best.
Thanks for the info. Our 20 gallon tank was recently infested with ramshorn snails, likely coincided with an on-line purchase of red-leaf floaters that decayed after several weeks. Although the snails had initially appeared to be pests, I believe they solved our pH problem - the pH would always stay up around 7.8, and I would rather it was
snails are friends :x
Not food
lol u 2
Shauna Louise that’s exactly what I thought when I read this comment
and food
Yes
awesome channel, Rachel! I am sure that you will feel at home here in Asia where the aquarium hobby is ridiculously popular.
Kuhli loach's have done quite well in my community for killing off bladder snails. They love the eggs. Kuhli's have become my favorite bottom feeder. In groups of 20 plus there great for string up that top layer. Ill agree, i dont consider snails to be pests at all. I find them essential in my dirted tanks. As you say, its an indicator.
weird my Kuhli never touch snails... at least mts
Andrew Ingalls Watson do you know if kuhli loaches would attack horned nerites?
My Khulis never touched any snails, however my clown loaches had a feast with the infestation of snails I had in my tank.
Khulis wont harm the larger snails. What they do is eliminate all the eggs and very small snails before their shells harden. They are only a tool to manage pest snails in a manner thats beneficial to your system. Nor will you see them do this as they hunt when its totally dark. Its what they do in nature. So all you have to do is remove the larger ones and your problem is solved. Water bottle trap is still the easiest way to catch adults. Clown loaches kill every snail, inducing those you want to keep.
+Andrew Ingalls Watson never wanted to keep snails, they're a pest to me and they eat plants, destroyed my amazon swords so that's when I got clowns to rid them. Never had a snail problem since.
I have one ramshorn, and he does a great job! I got him for free, and he is a blue leopard and I am pretty happy with how well he does :D
nice mine are pink
Mine’s yellow
This is a great video chicky! When I was new to this hobby I did get lots of snails because I was ridiculously over feeding my tank I learned tons of lessons in the planted tank hobby. What I have learned is all of these snails are a potential threat but if you can not go crazy feeding your fish they all can be beneficial I have three or more species of thes guys and they are kept in check by my every three day feeding regimen. In the past I used to throw in a loach to bring them down in population but now I just do not feed the tank as much and the use of shrimps as cleaners usually out eat these snails so the tanks don't get crazy with them anymore. I have apple snails, trumpets, rams horns the rams get big fast but if you slow the feeding they will stall or slow right down. I love fish tanks and the beauty they bring to your home snails are helpers for me they keep the algae down and my glass clean as crystal Balance with these creatures is key.
Tried your snail trap, worked soooo well in the back of my tank where the filter is. Thank you so much!!
I watched this video yesterday, made a snail trap as described and overnight 'caught' about 50 nuisance snails. Thanks for the tip🤗
Thank you Rachel, I put 5 rams horn snails in my tank 6 months ago. Within 2 months I had HUNDREDS in the tank. I am still trying to get rid of them. Snail traps didn’t work. I am currently using cucumber in the tank at night which works a bit. I even took all of the stones in the tank out and left it in the sun ( in the Northern Territory australia) for 48 hours but I must have missed one because they are still breeding!
Thanks for the great advice! I just recently found my first few in my new tank after heavy planting I believe they're Leopard ramshorns I've just put them in my quarantine tank as a maintenance crew!
I call them my little janitors lol Although they're new to me so give it time and I might be pulling my hair LOL.
Thank you for this. I got a "bonsai" tree from my LFS which I'm absolutely in love with however it came with some hitchhikers and now they're eating my new growth on my plants. I like that my mystery snails eat dying leaves, but these other guys are punks! I've been manually removing them but I'm gonna try the water bottle trick tonight. Thanks again! Love your channel!
I found a bunch of beautiful snails randomly in my local little park. There was at least 50 of them and they honestly looked dumped into a small little water patch from sprinklers. I scooped them up and gave them a new home. Many didn’t make it but the ones that did, they have the beautiful iridescent green and brown shells and I love them so much. Two of them are also as you described about as big as nickels the others are just really fast and possibly bladder snails compared to the very slow big looking snails. So two different snails and I’m so happy with them! The best find I ever found in the local park was free aquatic snails! :)
Awesome info! I have MTS taking over a 20 gallon , and those bladder snails trying to take over my planted pond...but I'll be trying that bottle trap tonight!
I know they are annoying to some hobbyist, but i really do enjoy watching them slowing nom nom on algae with their cute mouths.
Rachel thank you for your videos, I want to one day open my own freshwater fish store in my city, there are not many options and your videos inspire me. This is a true hobby for me and I hope I can be like you one day
Thanks for the info i just started the hobby recently and found this to be very informative.
glad to hear it!
Great info on snails! Thanks Rachel.
The MTS do a wonderful job of keeping my sand substrate clean and turned over. My tank even smells cleaner after I added them and my stem plants seem to be doing better. I just got my first rams horn snail 🐌, a pretty leopard pattern. He hitched a ride on some java moss I purchased. I'm quite impressed with how well he keeps the algae cleaned off my larger Anubias.
There are some beautiful colors of ramshorns! My favorite are bright orange
Thank you! You are so informative and thorough. I just found two snails in my tank. I think I’ll keep an eye on them. As long as they don’t eat my plants, we are ok.
glad it helped!
I got some bladder snails/pond snails on the plant and was kind of upset at first but I have fish with shrimp and tend to over feed a little to make sure the shrimp get something so it’s kind of nice because pretty much whatever you throw in there the snails will clean it up. When they get to be too many I just suck them out when I’m cleaning the tank every week or when I feed them cucumbers or something on a skewer the snails usually cover it and I can just throw it out with them on it. I have narite nails to but they kill my cholawood. I don’t really mind them, I sort of wish they weren’t there because they grow like crazy but they keep the tank sort of clean too so I don’t hate them.
That's so smooth when you cut the bottle so satisfying 😮😮😮
Impressive knowledge about all things aquatic..thanks
Malaysians trumpet snails are great, i guess i do a good job on not overfeeding because i don't see many lately, i hope they are not all dead! Keep up with your great videos!
bladder snail have been eating all of the new leaves on my Java fern, they leave the large older leaves alone but the soft new ones are things favorite snack.
I have bladder/pond snails and rams horns. They don't bother me and help keep the tanks clean. I also have assassin snails that eat them off if the population explodes from over feeding.
Hi Rachel.. I'm loving your channel.. so much to learn and enjoy!
Thank you :)
Thank you so much for this video. A huge help and very informative for a new aquarist.
One of my most problematic problems were those mini ramshorn snails, not sure if it had something to do with the water I had but they bred like crazy (slight overfeeding might've been the other factor), I had easily over a thousand in a 5 gallon tank (though it was over 10 years ago) and it was a never ending battlle of removing them from the tank.
I guess I got them with plants I bought back then (gravel and driftwood were boiled), even thought I tried to clean them under tap water.
thanks you for sharing your wisdom with us. So glad I found your channel. Sara
nice video, thx for sharing. now I know the snails in my aquarium is mini ramshorn. I used to call them ramshorn. anyway those mini ramshorn really multiply a lot lately, lots of eggs on glass and lots of tiny fry. maybe I over feed a little.
I manually remove pest snails, squish them and feed to my glow lights, I think they really enjoy them and it’s an easy free treat :)
I did the assassin snail route. Just 2 of them took care of my problems. Rarely see another type snail in my tank now. Assassins breed MUCH MUCH slower than pond/pest snails..... Then do cool stuff more often like floating at the surface for food, then poping out their air bubble to sink when they grab food. Is the coolest thing I've seen a snail do. Cooler when it gets caught in a cyclone of sorts and u see the snail twisting about.
I think the two pest snails I like, are Pond Snails and Ramshorns. The Ramshorns have nice spiral shells, and decorate the substrate after they’ve expired. While Pond Snails have those triangular antennae, the size they get to is a marvel too.
Ah! I hadn't even started stocking my first tank and already i have lots of little snail friends. Or, well, they do seem to be bladder snails, so maybe not so friendly... they are gorging themselves on some gunk and sad plant leaves rn. I think the plant will bounce back though, and maybe when i start stocking I will grow tired of the snails, but right now they are fun and cute! Thank you for a very informative video, as always!
I purchased a bag of about 20+ ramhorns snail. Ones in my tank died off but the ones i gave to my friend survived. Started a little bit of a more strict water quality control policy and then got some from my friend, they survived that time and ever since then i have had a healthy population of ramshorn snails. They have never completely taken over my tank, and never been so sparse that i struggle to find one. Just figure out how much you actually need to feed your fish and they will be more helpful than harmful.
I bought live plants for my 25 gallon tank and the plants came with a lot of Bladder snails on it so I decided to put as many of them as I could get and I put it in an old betta bowl I had and didn't put any food in it or anything and so far it's worked and a lot of them have died off
I got a 1 gallon tank for a trumpet snails and bladder snails I love to watch the trumpets trunk thing
Do you think Tinfoil Barbs and Plecos will eat Malaysian trumpet snails?
WesleyAPEX clown loach will
Great video! I was wondering though, as a keeper of many snail eating loach species, is there a species of ornamental snail that could safely be kept with them? I was researching the larger sulawesi rabbit snails, but I didn't see much info pertaining to their compatibility.
just brought 10 snails and added then came across this ..... oh joy .... wondering if ive made a mistake .
sod it ... got 10 new friends and to be honest looking forward to having loads more
How are your snails now? I like snails, I wish I had more.
At 6:50 what’s that white medium sized one in the foreground? The one in the middle of those three. Is that a ramshorn or a bladder?
I only keep snails in my aquariums. I am feeding them large chunks of lettuce and watching as the population skyrockets. I have ramshorn in one and bladder and MTS in another. I caught some pond snails from a local lake and i'm gonna get them in after my 3 month quarentine. Though i caught only old ones who laid eggs and died so...... idk if I'm gonna quarentine the eggs. Maybe just the plants.
3 clown loaches do a really great job of cleaning my 39 gallon of snails.
I have a small planted 5 gallon though that is a bit overrun, bottle trap is too big so every week I grab the planting tweezers and start pulling them. Seems to work ok.
Could you do a quick vid on your siphons?
VERY helpful video. So now I think I have bladder snails, but I also have very small black ones, no clue what they are. The little black ones seem to be multiplying the fastest. I really don't want to squish them. Maybe I could move them to spare tank. Do they need a cycled tank?
Good to hear you had a great time at the convention .... are mini Ramshorn horns avid reproducers? I have a very small nano tank 3 gallons! wth one Betta S. and how much for one mini Ramshorn horn with shipping?
i went with 5 assassin snails in a 30 gallon. They did extremely well and didnt reproduce too fast, so i ended up actually moving them to a sandy planted betta tank and kept a small stock of pest snails around to feed them.
I walked in to my local fish store, and saw a tank they had that was infested with Malaysian trumpet snails, but it just so happened that I had spent weeks looking online for some for sale with no luck. You should’ve seen the look on the owners face when I told him that I actually wanted them on purpose. 😂 I got a small number for free, and I’ve had them for years along with some blue leopard rams horn with only 1 outbreak. 10/10 would do it again
i bought some marimo balls about a month ago and hadn't realized until later that i had a little hitchhiker lol. now i have a little bladder snail named gary. he hasn't been a pain at all and is so interesting to watch
Look up " Thiara Cancelatta " and "Bellyama Bengalensis" I have both, love them. Thiara Cancelatta( hairy trumpet snail) only seem to breed in brackish water and dig like MTS, but get as big as nerites.
I don't understand the bias against snails. They are a good cleanup crew. I have some pink, translucent rams horn snails that I really like.
yeah! I love ramshorn snails
Mine just got busy, I'm excited about babies lol
I found a bladder snail and she apparently reproduced. I’m currently picking out any that I see and I’m so stressed about overpopulation 😭
I really love snails,I always put some in new tanks I set up.I really don't get why people dislike them.
Free snails are free snails haha I like them in all tanks eat extra food in all my colony tanks
Yeah haha i bought a plant whit apparently a snail 🤷🏻♀️ and now idk if i will have babies
@@frederiqueconstant8819 any luck?
I like snails, the more the better.
I have had Cichlids for a long time, which meant I could never have snails. Now I have another tank (10 gallons) with plants, shrimp, and snails and I like the snails just as much as I thought I would. I bought some Ramshorn Snails and they are bigger than I thought; they lay eggs but they don't seem to hatch. I bought a plant and got three teeny tiny itty bitty Malaysian Trumpet Snails, and I would like to have a lot more and bigger ones. I bought some Mystery Snails and those are very interesting to watch eat, and the Gold ones are very outgoing, and one of them laid some eggs last night. 🎉 I also have two Spixi Snails, which are much smaller and slower and not outgoing at all, and one laid a few eggs, maybe 20, on a plant and I have spent weeks waiting for them to hatch, but nothing so far. They might be eating the Ramshorn snail eggs, I don't know. And I have some pond snails that I caught myself and they lay eggs on everything and they hatch. I even have a golden-shelled one, which I hope will have more. If I could find other kinds of snails, then I would get them too.
when my 37 was a heavily planted and high-light setup, I had orange and yellow ramshorns in there. they're neat little snails and left pretty much all of my plants alone as long as they were healthy. they were actually pretty good at taking care of dying or dead leaves. they laid their eggs mainly on the glass, and a quick swipe of a razor blade or algae scraper took care of that...plus the really little ones are easy to squish against the glass of the tank.
I don't know what kind of terminator snails I had, but snail traps had too large a gap for them to get trapped, so it only really was a food source for them. They ate ALL my plants, and when I put assassin snails in, one day I woke up to hollowed out assassin snail shells, and half a dozen of those pests in and around each shell. The largest of them were not even two tenths of an inch, while the typical size was one tenth of an inch.
Your trap with catching them in a bottle is amazing and has really helped my snail problem, rather than killing them is there anywhere you can release them without issue
your local fish store will take them. Mine gives them away for free.
... well you could feed them to other fish and snails that eat them? They wouldn't die in vain.
Thanks Rachel. I’ve always thought of snails as pest. I have a 30 and 20 gallon planted tank, the 30 is snail free but I have algae issues my 20 is full of bladder snails but no algae. I took some plants from my 30 that were covered in black hair algae put them in my 20 and in 3 or so days the plants looked like new, it never dawned on me the snails were cleaning the plants until I saw your video. I’m going to add some donkey snail and see how it works out thanks again
I got some duckweed out of a pet store a while back and a bunch of tiny baby snails popped up, I have no idea what kind they are and they're still pretty small but they're growing rapidly. The biggest one I have that I can tell the colors of has a speckled shell
I like those 'mini' ramshorns myself and I thank you so much for the species name! I've been trying to find it for ages. Never seen one larger than about 1/4". They're unobtrusive and do no harm I can see. Most of the one I have are red with clear shells and given that I keep mostly very minute fish species, they're an appropriate size, especially in a nano tank :-).
Standard ramshorns are very useful, I think. I read a neat article and later heard a lecture on using them with Cory cat eggs as clean up crew in place of using antifungals like Meth blue. They don't eat healthy eggs but do eat any fungus that may appear. Natural fungus control, how can you not love that?
Btw, I find there are more than two MTS type snails. I have at least 3 types so far. One of them grows rather large, some to more than 1.5 inches long with a foot close to a half inch in diameter. At first I thought they were rabbit snails but they aren't, they're MTS or something very closely related. Their shells are a dull olive colour without stripes but do have dots on them. Another type is a rich dark mahogany brown with a deeply ridged shell; greatly resembles a baby Orange Poso rabbit snail but it only grows to roughly 3/4" in length. They're very dark in the body too and rather attractive really; plus, they don't show up on a dark substrate the way the most common MTS does, especially the one with the light beige shell and rusty stripe marks.
The Limnea species of snail that you mention, does it have a light grey-colour body? I see snails like that now and then but they have appeared to be major plant nibblers and thus I have not encouraged them. The ones I see have a pale grey body, pale grey shell and short, fat tentacles. They grow a lot larger than the bladder snail does, certainly, but I've never allowed one to grow to full size. They are slower to reproduce, for sure.
Terrific info and tips! Gonna make a trap now! Also, you’re super easy on the eyes.
I had two types of invasive snails in my two tanks and I had added a bit of salt to my larger tank to help a slightly injured fish. ALL the (either bladder or pond snail per your video) died off in the large tank. I had placed two large specimens in my smaller tank to combat algae and they exploded in that tank. Now I have each species separated in each tank. Guessing it's the salinity they can take. Not sure what the ones I have left in the large tank are though, white/grey with round shells
Your videos are very interesting, useful, simple and easy to understand. Definitely subscribing !! TY
Great vid! I'm about to move my fish into their shiny new tank from their old home, which is currently full of malaysian trumpets! Still torn on whether or not to bring them over...
Great vid, very informative and helpful, one thing I'd like to suggest is when describing size it would be much easier for us international viewers (Hi from Australia!) if you could describe sizes in inches or centimeters(cm)/millimeter(mm), it would make for a much easier form of reference since I personally had no idea how big a nickle was, turns out its .835 inches or roughly 21mm, the more you know!
ah! Good point!!
I just found a ram's horn snail in my aquarium yesterday :D
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Rachel O'leary, get flying foxes, they gobble snails like a beast
Don't they get a little mean tho?
Thanks for this video. i just discovered a mini ramshorn in my new tank that I believe came with some Buce I ordered. I’m kinda sorry I crushed it now before watching this video. I didnt really need it though. I have nerites and my beloved Mystery snails. I will make that trap for bladder snails I have in my shrimp tank though.
That bottle idea 💡 is genius !!!!
I've had ramshorn snail and they produce a lot. I had to buy assassin snails to get rid of them which helped a lot. Now I have 2 assassin snails and no ramshorn snails. It's been months and my 2 assassins are still alive. Never reproduce either. So still have the 2 I bought a while ago. I did buy nerite to clean my tank.
The comment section is full of cringe. The bladder snails have reproduced in my EMPTY tank for months and there's been no feeding at all. The only thing they can be relying on at this point is algae growth, and they're obviously only skimming over that enough to get enough to grow and reproduce, repeat process for each snail. They don't even take the algae completely off of anything they happen to crawl over, to the point there is no visual evidence they did it at all. I have a total of three small live plants in the last few weeks they've eaten the rotten leaves off of, and then didn't complete that job at all, actually leaving most of the rot to move on and....repopulate.
And you guys can "embrace" these snails all you want to. I actually like trumpets myself. But PLEASE WARN your potential victims of the fact you grew your plants in a tank with these snails if you sell them or take them to the pet store. Mine came in on plants and I was not warned and needless to say, wasn't impressed by the seller at all afterwards.
Hal, aren't you a homicidal robot? I didn't know robots kept pets. Or plants... Please don't hurt me...
🎶Daisy, 🎵Daisy, give your answer, do... 🎶
@@ZomBeeNature LOL that song is in my head now! 🙉🙉🙉
Cheers and any type of snails which will eat live plants and not eat dead plants?
I am 64 and have been keeping aquaria and vivaria since I was 5 years old. I have always liked snails and had them in my freshwater tanks. I have had everything but nerite snails at one time or another; mystery, trumpet, trapdoor, ramshorn and black pond. I have had massive numbers of pond and ramshorns in tanks at times, but just smashing them and letting the fish eat the bodies or tossing to fish like puffers has always done the trick. Squashing the egg cases of pond and ramshorn snails works too. At one time I had about 200 gold mystery snails in a 55 gal and that was too many, but I got three dojo loaches (had no idea they ate snails at the time) and they eliminated all babies. I gave 100 away, so the population without any reproduction going on, gradually dropped to just one large adult. I missed them so I bought another young gold mystery snail and set them up to breed in a nano tank, along with 2 trap door and a bunch of malaysian trumpet snails. Still looking for some nice ramshorn snails to add to that tank. If they get too over populated, I can just toss the young ones to the dojo loaches in the 55 gal. I always have fish that like lots of veggies, so I usually have leaf lettuce or raw spinach floating in the tanks so i have never had an issue with snails eating live plants.
I got lucky when I put aquatic plants in my aquarium because along with the plants was a good supply of ramshorn snail eggs which hatched. The tank is literally being scrubbed squeaky clean of algae and mulm much better than me doing it manually. I've never seen such active voracious snails that are growing fast.
Well you would be my go to for aquarium stuff!
MTS get huge! I was amazed when I saw one come out of the substrate.
Multiple Tank Syndrome???😂😂😂
I know, you meant Malaysian Trumpet Snails.
+Neon Tetra Aquarist Lol, good one!
I can advocate that those Lesser Ramshorn snails are hard to breed, I've had a good 5 of these snails for 4 months in my 54L tank. And they're chill as, they move around and don't do much. I think they're cool since it adds another layer of life like an ecosystem to the aquarium
Hi Rachel I just subbed to your channel I watched the pest snail video and I think my problem is the ram horn something is eating my plants,I have mystery,Those ram horn brown& this other small one like u showed.I have been removing with the zucchini I feed my plecos I guess I do as you say and manually remove.Thanks.