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what's with his shell? it didn't look like this when I got him but it did have a curve on the rim that he seemed to grow into this weird cleft? params are normal and my other mystery snails are healthy and normal

1. I have a 6Gal Betta tank with Green Spot Algea problems. Can I fit 2 Nerite Snails in there?

2. If I have only female nerite snails, will they lay eggs? I know the eggs won't hatch, but I heard some people said they won't laid eggs at all without a male.

3. How to provide Nerite Snail with mineral through food? I don't want to dose my tank with chemical.

Hey guys I bought some "blueberry snails" from an LFS, I heard they were live bearers and ... Found an egg with a snail it? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what livebearer means?

I found something called the gold spotted rabbit snail that looked similar to it, but the shell looks completely different, but saw they also laid eggs?

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I just got this nerite snail a few days ago. Today I noticed this big chip on the tip of its shell. It seems rather large. Will this snail be ok? It’s behaving normally, very active and eating constantly.

I swear the pink light makes him ✨frisky✨

What can I do with all of these baby snails? I really like the snails but I don’t want them to overload the tank.

I’m also not sure what kind of snails they are. There was a mystery snail in there for a bit so I think that’s what they are but I’m not sure. They could also have come from some of the live plants. I first noticed them a couple months ago but I haven’t seen any get bigger than this. I first saw just a few but now there’s a bunch. The original mystery snail is now in a different tank doing well. This is the best photo I could get.

My tanks have both pond and bladder snails, and one has ramshorns. I love the snails. Like a rookie I trimmed some plants and put a few in the other tanks. I’ve raised cardinals this way- went into a shrimp only tank as eggs ;) This is a very bad practice unless you have no possible hitchhikers. I now have snail leeches in 3 tanks. I hate them and it’s impossible to eliminate them. Here’s the funny thing though, they don’t seem to bother the pond snails. Neither does my turtle. I harvest some snails for her and she loves mts, her favorite, and bladder snails but I watched her bite a pond snail and she spit it out. So maybe they have some toxicity? Back to those leeches. I’m about to switch tanks around. I’d love to eliminate those darn leeches.The only methods I can think of would crash the system and kill the plants. So only way is start from scratch? I can leave the substrates in the sun for a while and reuse those, but the plants. Maybe I’d have to set up a tank for the plants, remove the snails, and the leeches starve? Help

We lost one of our nerite snails about a month ago after I found it wedged between the heater and glass. Now today I found the other nerite snail in a similar spot on the heater. I went to pull it off the heater and it fell to the sand. I’m thinking this one is dead too. Any way to deter the snails from going onto the heater?

I bought this snail at a box pet store. I saw the shell but I thought another snail may have laid some eggs on it. After a closer look it seems like bits of shell broke off. Is there anything I should do to help it?

Title says what I’m after here. I have an infestation of these guys and am contemplating rescaping if I can’t find a way to get rid of them. My bumblebee goby won’t touch them.

I gave her an air bath and took the Catappa leaves out and she almost fully recovered by the end of the day. She’s gone back to her usual bustling ways, the end of her foot is still a little bit puffy and curly but it gets better every day. thanks snail ppl for helping me do snail medicine!!!

I’ve been passively keeping snails I raised in a class I took last year and recently decided to turn it into a more serious hobby. I’m a dorming college student and currently keep my snails in an old tank I brought from home, but will be getting a new tank soon. Right now, I have a handful of ramshorn snails and bladder or pond snails I picked up when scavenging for plants, but I don’t plan on adding snails any time soon.

As of now, I have a filter and heater that has been working for quite a while, and I think I’ve got plants and decorations covered. The main issue I’m trying to tackle is what substrate to use; right now I only have gravel, but I want to switch to a soil/sand mixture. I’ve seen plenty of mixed reviews on what (if any) soil should be used, and it’s throwing me for quite a loop!

I’m definitely a beginner and am still pretty unfamiliar with a lot of terminology, but I’m really interested in snail keeping. I can try elaborate on anything, but I unfortunately don't have any means of measuring water quality yet. I’d greatly appreciate any advice, not just about substrate, because I wanna make sure that my snails are happy and healthy :)

I can see far into his shell and I'm a little worried, does this look like mantle collapse? should I be concerned?

Just bought this horned nerite snail and I didn’t really pay attention to what the guy at the store picked for me. Now i can see that a couple of it’s horns are broken in half and it has this white erosion on its shell. Will it be ok? Is there anything I can do to help it heal?

I haven't seen him move for a couple of days, so I decided to check if he's ok. Pulled him out only to discover an empty shell and a lonely flap laying beneath it. No sign of the body. Now I've pulled out dead snails before, it happens, but never an empty one. Other tank inhabitants are 7 tetra glo, 5 pepper corys, one ancitrus, 6 pigmy corys, a black cory and three mollies. As far as I'm aware I have some ramsohrns, some bladders, 3 nerites and a mystery snail. What could have cleaned out the shell so quickly?