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Is it normal behaviour, if it isn't, what's wrong. Also, can I make it stop by doing anything

It warms my heart. Snails really do show some sort of interest/affection. He’s been snuggled up next to the newcomer (just arrived today) for like a half hour! It’s helping him to come out of his shell (figuratively and literally 😆). This hobby is so rewarding! 🫶🏼

So I’ve had a tank with just 3 mystery snails and the other night i started to notice little specs on my tank and when I looked closer I saw it was a bunch of baby snails!! My question is where could they have come from I never saw any eggs in the tank I had just done a water change a couple of days prior and do one about ever week to week and a half never noticed any eggs??

He was just chilling like this for about five minutes before he jumped off.

Welp. I am a fool.

I purchased two giant ramshorns for fun and read that they are great eaters of plants. I put them in my very heavily planted 30 gallon tank thinking nothing of it and now have probably 50 plus snails. That appetite is no joke. My Java ferns are now more like Java sticks.

I don’t really want to cull them all or just hand a bag of snails over to my LFS. Has anyone kept these before and been able to keep them from over munching the whole tank? Right now I’m thinking I might just buy them a weekly head of lettuce to try and encourage feeding on something other than Java sticks but not sure if they’ll go for that instead.

Any advice welcome even if it is to just get rid of then.

Any help is appreciated

Got 3 new Assassin snails for my tank that already had a few Ramshorn snails. Saw this Ramshorn riding around on one of them. How embarrassing to have your dinner use you as an Uber.

Hi Folks,

Recently my betta fish unfortunately passed on and I was thinking about tearing down the tank and taking a break from fishkeeping for a while.

However, I have a single nerite snail in that tank that was keeping algae control. I don't feel like killing it is right because it's an animal I've taken into my care and that feels cruel. But, also I don't want to maintain this whole tank for one snail I got as a maintenance helper.

Any advice on what to do? Is there a place that would take the snail? Or are there maybe smaller tanks or terrarium like situations that folks could recommend for a single small snail?

Thanks in advance!

I know, it’s bad. It fell out of the tank and onto the floor. I’m currently on vacation and getting this info from my roommate. The parameters were just checked and are fine. Lesson learned there will be a better lid on the tank.

What do I do? I feel like there’s no way he will make it but I can’t stand it like suffering. Not to mention I’m not even home.

Hi!!

I just bought 2 mystery snails and I love them to the moon and back.

Only thing that sucks is they can't eat algae wafers because the fish eat them all up in like a single minute.

What veggies can I give them? I heard about zucchini but do I have to boil it first?

Thanks in advance !!

She wasn't doing well but she's turned it around and is doing much better now. I've had her over a year.

It’s just so cute lol. I love how it’s only stripes on one half 😍🥰

I’m very new to having this guy (pretty super he’s an apple snail) and since having him I’ve noticed his shell looks almost like it’s peeling?? Is this a disease or something to do with his water? Any advice would be appreciated I want the best for my new friend!

this buddy really like the fishes food alot

Hi there, I was just wondering how many snails I could put in my 21 litre (or about 5 gallon) tank. It's fully cycled and whatnot. Thanks in advance!

They seem like they're still alive and they are in different spots when I wake up in the morning but all day they don't really move around.

Whenever I've had mystery snails in the past they have been all over the tank so I'm not sure what's going on with these two. I have a nerite snail which is fine and four fish who are also fine.

Any ideas?? Thanks in advance for helping me figure out the "mystery" (sorry I had to).