Can anyone confirm what these are

gwharton · Mar 7, 2022

Hi all,

Water

PH 7.2
GH 9
KH 4
Freshwater
Temp 25.0C

I have a selection of fish in there, but I recently added a Nerite Snail for cleanup (3 weeks ago), and a couple of Female Guppies were giving birth the last couple of days but I no longer see any fry swimming so assumed they'd been eaten.

I have about 10 of these crawling round on the glass. Any ideas, are these baby Nerites? This is a freshwater aquarium. I havent seen any Nerite eggs.

Size of them are around 1-2mm, and they are mobile on the glass, not swimming.

Thanks for any help

Graham

Rocky998 · Mar 7, 2022

gwharton said:
Hi all,

Water

PH 7.2

GH 9

KH 4

Freshwater

Temp 25.0C

I have a selection of fish in there, but I recently added a Nerite Snail for cleanup (3 weeks ago), and a couple of Female Guppies were giving birth the last couple of days but I no longer see any fry swimming so assumed they'd been eaten.

I have about 10 of these crawling round on the glass. Any ideas, are these baby Nerites? This is a freshwater aquarium. I havent seen any Nerite eggs.

Size of them are around 1-2mm, and they are mobile on the glass, not swimming.

Thanks for any help

Graham

Those are ramshorn snails. They are a pest snail that will keep breeding until your aquarium ie covered... But they actually are VERY easy to keep in small numbers if you wanted to... Just feed your fish what they need and only a little will fall to the bottom. The less food the snails have, the less snails there will be!

I Like Rare Fish · Mar 7, 2022

I have an infestation of rams horn and pond snails, I don’t bother with them. They don’t do anything bad to the tank, so why remove them?

gwharton · Mar 7, 2022

I'll try to keep them to sensible numbers. Sounds like they'll be beneficial as more cleanup crew.

Thanks for the ID.

Rocky998 · Mar 7, 2022

Yah, I feed mine in fact! They help clean up so I like having them around!

I Like Rare Fish said:
I have an infestation of rams horn and pond snails, I don’t bother with them. They don’t do anything bad to the tank, so why remove them?

I Like Rare Fish · Mar 7, 2022

Mine are in my bichir tank, so they will eat the leftover tilapia even though they are supposed to be vegetarian! They also eat leftover pellets and flakes as well as hair algae (on my outside pond they will clamp onto hair algae and just float around munching on it)

outofwater · Mar 7, 2022

Most people (myself included) seem to dislike having them around. I had not considered that they help clean up algae and excess food, however, at least in my case, I decided to actively remove them because they started eating my floating water sprite with gusto, and I don't see them adding anything in terms of "algae cleanup" of glass or any other surface. Besides manually removing them, I have an assassin snail prowling the tank.

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