Snail In The Betta Tank, Identification Please?!

[jasminekiddell]

Hiya, i got a new plant last saturday, elodea. Only today i noticed a small snail on the leaves ive seperated it into some water with a few stems of elodea, its a really fast mover!
Heres a picture off google i found, it looks identical to this but just alot smaller, about pea size if not much smaller.

which snail is this?
Any info?

 

[afishdude]

Common pond snail.

 

[doktor doris]

some kind of lymnea.b (pond snail) as matey above said

probably lymnea ovata or auricularia.

look at [URL="http/www.applesnail.net/content/snails_various.php"]http/www.applesnail.net/content/snails_various.php[/URL]

like I suggested in the other place you posted this question.

doris

oh yes I forgot to mention, in my experience lymnea aren't as bad as ramshorns, when it comes to taking over the tank.
I leave lymnea alone but I kill all ramshorns on sight, yet I can now count 20 rams in my snailey tank but only 2 lymnea.

 

[jasminekiddell]

I asked in another section and got told it was a physa spec, and it looks just like one im cofnused.
Anyway whatever it is, what will it eat and how does it like its temp?
i just need a bunch of info on them, cant seem to find any tho.
thanks.

just looked on the snail site thing, im drawn between Lymnea or physa spec, thinking more of a Lymnea.

 

[afishdude]

Lymnea auricularia

 

[jasminekiddell]

alright thanks, do you know anything about them i cant find much out

 

[saltynay]

Algae eater predominantly, they will eat vegetation which has been removed from the stem and slowly decaying but not rotten e.g. lettuce leaves. and other household veg. They do nibble on elodea but not voraciously in my experience, I have elodea in a tank with them and although the elodea has been starved of nutrients by my other plants and excessive filtration and has hardly grown in 7 weeks it is not any missing any leaves just a couple of holes. Don't excessively feed your fish and you won't have an issue.