Random Snail Appeared?!

[Lockhaart]

Could maybe an egg or a tiny snail been in the bag with fish that you purchased from somewhere? Sometimes when I do wc's, I find tiny snails the size of pen tips in the bucket, so maybe one could have hitchhiked from a tank/net from your lfs?

I havent bought any fish since my guppies which was so long ago I can't even remember!

Generally MTS snails drive me balmy with their over populating my tanks, but I find having a fine sand substrate makes it relatively easy to remove excess snails by scooping a standard course fish net through the sand and then sifting out the sand leaving the snails in the net to be disposed of. This will also help give you an indication of just how many are creeping through the substrate. Sneaky lil Ninjas

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The choice is entirely yours on if you want to keep a snail that can build its numbers relatively quickly before you notice. If you like the MTS and the fact they can be very useful in turning over substrate and eating food waste caught in the substrate, then I would say keep it.

He seems to have disappeared this morning,

I quite like him, I'm used to finding loads of snails, when I got the zebra snail I never expected to have babies haha i had over 50 at one point, but most die off none have got any bigger than a centimetre, I might keep him see how he goes, I can always get rid of him later on!

 

[sadguppy]

It's odd for your zebra to have babies - usually you'd need to hatch the eggs in it in salt water!
That is a mystery indeed!