Snail Id Please

[iSnail]

Guys, I'll try to get them breed a bit more and I'll let you have some They are not going into any of my heated tanks for a couple of weeks yet.

I'm so jealous of you Europeans and your snails.

dizzied. I'm jealous of the Europeans on the other side of the channel too. They have so many more in the way of invert varieties.

To be honest, these snails look very much like the ordinary MTS in the LFS tanks. I'm sure if one looks carefully will find some unusual ones in their LFS. I'm just one of the weird customers who look at pest snails in their tanks instead of their fish. Well, that's what the look on their faces tells me anyway

I have a niggling suspicion that these interbreed with the normal MTS. Have a look at the one on the right. It looks like a half/half between spiky and MTS What do you think?

Mixed with a few MTS. Seems like the new ones look a little darker than my previous two. I wonder why that is?

Edit: Saltynay, forgot to say that they don't eat live plants. They are just like the normal MTS and will eat any leftovers, algae and dead plant material.

 

[iSnail]

Disaster struck and I've lost all the new spiky snails unfortunately Something toxic could have gotten into the container that was temporarily holding them and killed them. They were even breeding in the first week I got them

Have to get some more when I feel thick skin enough to ask my LFS again

 

[saltynay]

Shame they are gorgeous little things

 

[dizzied]

dizzied. I'm jealous of the Europeans on the other side of the channel too. They have so many more in the way of invert varieties.

Let's see, what's a bigger, a channel, or an ocean? At least some of them ship around Europe, right?

Disaster struck and I've lost all the new spiky snails unfortunately Something toxic could have gotten into the container that was temporarily holding them and killed them. They were even breeding in the first week I got them

Have to get some more when I feel thick skin enough to ask my LFS again

Sorry to hear about this. They were lovely snails.

 

[Liam]

What a pity, wonder what could have killed them. I am sure they can give you some more.

 

[iSnail]

Yeah, I was gutted and annoyed with myself

No idea what happened. I was going to hold them in a 2 ltr tub for two weeks before putting them in my tank. A couple more days I could have had them in the tank. I did 50% water change daily. Lots of ivy leaf duckweed, elodea, willow moss from my other snail hatchery. I used the same water as for my other snail hatcheries and they've been fine. Only the tub with these trumpet snails was affected. Even a few ramshorn snails which hatched from eggs on the plants died too. Only survivor was a pouch snail. The strange thing was that long white hairy growth (fungus presumably) appeared overnight. Most died the next day and the few remaining died a couple of days later

Feel a bit embarrassed to ask LFS again. Perhaps I should sell a couple of my DPs in exchange for some pest trumpet snails next time