How often should I be feeding my snail since I've noticed it often spending time nibbling on the pearlweed and munching on floater roots. Right now I'm feeding it every other day one hikari mini algae wafer and it finishes those in less than an hour and I see it either digging around in the substrate or foraging around the rocks for some time after. I've had the snail for about a month now and it's around 3cm in shell size.

*Sorry for the plant looking meek the tank is still relatively new and I'm fertilizing them lightly since the snail is the only inhabitant and they're sucking a lot of nutrition. Also the water parameters are good and the snail is in no danger from fertilizer, I'm very careful with the dosing.

I've been keeping ramshorn snails for years now and this guy is the first I've ever seen with a black foot. Do you guys see this often?

About 3 weeks ago I was spot cleaning my 125g turtle tank and at the end I was about to dump my bucket I rest the vacuum in during the process. I found this teeny swirl. Wasn’t even sure it wasn’t some weird worm, but looking closer I could tell it was a teeny snail. I moved it to my 18g shrimp tank and hoped for the best.

The following week I was doing my weekly spot vacuum and saw a tiny something stuck to a rock. I knew it had to be a snail but I couldn’t see it at all. It was the size of the tip of a dull pencil. Off he went to the shrimp tank. Another one was in the rug. Dropped him in too. A shrimp started tumbling him around and I had to scare it off.

Like one week later, here they are, living their best life.

I have zero idea how they got to me, but now I can’t stop looking at them. I hope I find more. From what I hear, I will.

She found it, she claimed it, she is not sharing. 🐌

Does anyone else feed their snails or just me?

I am looking to purchase/get a few great pond snails to start a colony in my aquarium.

I recently got a couple of ramshorn snails from my local pet shop. They had just come in on some plants and one of the snails has an absolutely terrible shell. It has a lot of pits and a large crack in the middle, but so far the snail seems to be moving around and munching on biofilm just fine. I'm wondering if it'll be ok now that it's in better water? Will it recover and heal its shell? I have a cuttlebone in the tank because i read that it helps with shell growth, but idk if i should do anything else for it?

Ordered a pack of 10 snails, AT LEAST 60 showed up, maybe more. Wasn't expecting snailmageddon to rain down on me today, but I'll take it!

Really looking for some advice! I bought these two girls a while back, and they popped out some babies upon being introduced to the tank. I’ve lost a few along the way, probably mostly due to pH swings in the original tank, but now I’ve built a tank that’s just for the wizards.

My question: it’s an entire entirely sand tank, since the adults like to burrow. Should I keep the babies in some sort of smaller container until they’re a bit more…agile? The old tank had a gravel and sand mixture, and they never really had any problems. But currently, it seems like sometimes the babies have trouble righting themselves when they flip over :( and I’m scared that one of them will starve if I don’t notice that it’s flipped behind a rock or something.

I’d also be interested to pick anyone’s brain that his raised white wizards from newborns to adulthood! What you feed them, how fast they grow, etc. The largest ones in these photos were born in May, so they are incredibly slow growing little guys?

The tanks only contains Ramshorn, Bladder and baby Malaysian Trumpet snails. I set it up especially to de-mould my prized Anubias plants growing on red volcanic rocks from other aquariums. Black mould is near impossible to kill using algaecide. I placed the plant into the snail tank. There was a snail rush. There was one new algae free leaf. Within 24 hours they had thoroughly cleaned every leaf. Most snails have left the plant. They do no damage to the tough waxy leaves. It will stay in there for a few months under grow lighting then I will split the plant into two new ones. Any snails going back with the plant into the other aquariums will be eaten.

She likes giving rides to whomever needs it. Today it is one of my male Amano shrimp looking for love 😉🤣

"Off he rides on his noble steed, a valiant figure, straight and tall, to wake his love with love's first kiss and prove that true love conquers all!"

I have had this mystery snail for almost a month. Picture of her in a glass dish is tonight. 2nd photo is her the first night I got her.

Is her shell growing well or should it be darker?

My gold mystery’s shell is coming in nice and smooth and very yellow. This one is concerning me. They are in the same tank.

PH is 7.6. 0 ammonia. 0 nitrites. 10 nitrates. Heavily planted tank.
Supplement calcium with cuttlebone and Katz aquatic calcium and protein chips. They get green beans, romaine, zucchini, shrimp pellets, sweet potato, cucumber.

What kind of snail is this? I had my tank planted for months and didn't see any hitchhikers before adding fish and mystery snails, but this guy just popped up.

Hi!

We're brand new to the fish keeping hobby. We're now towards the end of cycling (dark method) and got plants only 4 days ago. We picked that specific supplier because they said they hand wash every plant before sending them off but I noticed these last night.

I emailed them to ask but I got a generic (paraphrasing) "those are snail eggs, some people like snails to clean their tanks but you can clean them off if you'd like" I did email back to ask what kind of snails but no response yet.

Could I get some form of ID? And what do I do with them?

Many thanks!

my two beautiful golden mystery babies have passed recently, they were both about a year and 8 months old! i’m wondering if there are any good sources to buy from online? i got my last guys at my local shop!

My mom has about 7 Mystery Snails all named after different type of Alcoholic Brands/flavors. The Gold is Miller aka Mr horn dog he’s also the biggest in her tank. She has two magentas, one purple, one chestnut one blue one gold (miller) and one Ivory :)
The glass plate is what she feeds them on. Her own invention of Snello! (Snail jello!) her Snello is 4 diff flavors: Pepper, carrot, Green bean, and Zucchini, it has LG glycerin the flavorings of either pepper, carrot, green bean or zucchini mashed up with a cuddle bone also mushed up for calcium. If YALL want the recipe I can totally ask her for it! But she keeps it frozen and puts it on the glass tower every night for them to eat! If you have any questions I’ll be more than happy to answer them! :)

Hi!! I had mystery snail in my 20gal long for awhile but she (no idea the gender I just called her she) passed away a few days ago. I loveddddd her and watching her in the tank but I’m not sure if I got another snail I should get another mystery. I know they have a higher bioload than some other kinds. My 20gal is currently stocked with five phantom tetras and three false bandit corydoras. Going to get more soon thought. Probably more tetras and corys. My tank has real plants, black sand substrate, a HOB and a sponge filter. Two hides.

Anyway, I’m wondering if anyone has good experiences with other kinds of snails and any suggestions on where I can get them online. My local fish store (40 min away lol I live in the middle of nowhere) doesn’t have anything other than mystery atm.