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How do yall tell the difference between mini rams and regular rams? Is their shells different? Do they act differently? Any resources i can do some reading on them?

Edit: babies are probably from new plants I got and not nerite babies (i didn’t realize they don’t reproduce in normal tanks)

I have two adult nerites and obviously missed an egg clutch, and now I have at least 13 baby snails in my 10 gallon tank. I don’t want to kill them but I don’t have the space to keep them all either. I’m not sure what to do with them. I saw someone say they took their unwanted nerites to a pet store and they bought them off of them, is that a reliable solution or will they only take a few, if any at all?

(I’m assuming I’d have to wait until they’re much bigger to go with that option, since they’re only about the size of a sesame seed right now)

My roommates cat somehow got the lid off my tank and smacked my snail off the wall, ever since then he has been in his shell and hasn’t moved. I’m pretty sure he looks dead but I just wanted to confirm. At first I thought he was in shock but this looks like decomposition, any thoughts?

I’m also a wuss and don’t want to sniff it

How can I keep my mystery snail from laying eggs as often as she does. I have over 100 baby snails in my tank currently and I just found another clutch this morning 😭

So this is my situation: I've got this 10 gal fish tank in which I've been raising some guppies. I've planted a few plants and I do 30% water changes every week. I've had it for a very long time and I'm keeping the guppy population under control.. (Well, kinda.. Whenever there's too many, I move half the group to other tanks). For as long as this fish tank had water in it, I've had this apple/mistery snail in it. His name is Paul and he's a legend! 😝 He's always been alone in there, he never met another snail in his life (sad, I know...) The friend who gave Paul to me kept him alone in a tank just like I do, so I am absolutely 100% certain that Paul is unfertilized.

Here's the thing... A few weeks back I've introduced some new plants in there that I've got from someone I am not used to buy from... You can probably already guess where this is going... 🤣 About 10 minutes ago, I realized that I didnt wash/quarantine the plants properly and now I have an unknown (but very high) number of tiny baby snails that invaded my guppy farm... 😭😭

Now because Paul was alone in there and never had any kind of problem whatsoever, I never gave him much attention or special care. This... this is different 😂 The babies are too small for my camera to focus on (the biggest one I could see was around 1mm long..) so I cannot really show them to y'all but I definitely need help.

Y'all gotta understand that this fish tank was never supposed to be anything else but a guppy farm that I raise for my aquaponic systems.. I know a lot about how to use aquatic ecosystems in order to make non-aquatic plants thrive in hybrid dual-zone aquaponics. Besides taking care of guppies, which is fairly easy and doesn't need a lot of special care, I do not know much about the usual fishkeeping hobby like most do.. So if you could help me out and answer a few questions I'd really appreciate it.🙏🏼

1. At what size will I be able to identify them?

2. What issue or special care should I prepare myself for?

3. Should I take out the guppies and Paul or are they good to coexist all together like a big family?

4. Will I need to change or watch more carefully some of the water parameters for them to thrive?

5. Is there anything I should know?

Thanks in advance!

alright yall. i asked this same question to the shrimp subreddit and they came back with some amazing replies, but im looking around everywhere to find a good fit for me. i upgraded my 10 gallon betta tank to a 20 gal recently and am looking at all kinds of animals to see if i want to add any of them. please tell me the pros and cons to owning snails, specifically nerite snails or other kinds that will help clean a tank 🫶🫶

My GH is ~200ppm and my KH is ~150.

PH is ~8.

I’m surprised the shell isn’t doing well under these parameters.

When cycling my tank I had an algae problem, before it started getting completely out of control I added in 5 Ramshorn snails.

Good news is the algae is under control.

Bad news is at last count there was 31 baby snails on the glass.

What is the best way to deal with this? Really I'm quite happy with a small number of snails but 36 total is a bit much for a community tank.

I've been recommended when they get closer to adult size to put in an assassin snail, I'm not opposed to this idea but I also fear that the assassin snail will wipe them all out pretty quick

Please help

At what point do I put this mystery snail out of business? It’s been sluggish for over a month, this morning it had a big white…snenis? with some mucus on it hanging out of its shell…couldn’t get to my microlens fast enough but I circled just the tip in the photo…is it suffering or is this just what they do sometimes?

So I am isolating my mystery snails from my tank while I treat it with aquarium salt for the fish (1 tbsp per 5 gal), and I figured snails and salt don't mix. While doing this i noticed a two tone appearance to their shells. I'm wondering if they are missing something that is causing their shells to have this color? Maybe a change in parameters had them growing quicker? Not sure. I'm new to mystery snails, so I wanted to check in to see if i am missing something here.

I posted a few days ago asking why my snail was coming out of the water and y'all said she was probably searching for a place to lay eggs and were right! I feel so lucky that I got to actually see her doing it

I had to use No-Planaria in one of my shrimp tanks to kill hydra. I removed my mystery and nerite snails and rehomed them in another tank.

I’ve found it does not kill my ramshorn and bladder snails.

Does anyone know if it kills Malaysian trumpet snails? I just got a new batch and don’t want to add them in if they will just die.

Is the bird cuttlebone the same one used for snails and fish?

Got my nerite snail 4 weeks ago and I don't know if this egg or something.saw alot of post about how hard to take it off so I'm a little bit worried.