Found a snail in my bowl... What is it?

[sealife]

I have a bowl with java fern plant and moss in it. No live fish or shrimp.

This morning when I looked at the bowl, I found a tiny little cone shape snail in it, all buy itself. It must have come in with the plants. Its about 1 or 2 mm long. Very small.

I took a picture of it. Here is a link to it:

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Can anyone tell me what kind of snail this is, as I am worried its poisonous to humans and I am thinking of throwing the whole bowl out.

Thank you.

 

[candymancan]

Looks like some kind of pond snail to me.. snails aren't poisonous lol its just a pest aquarium snail

 

[fish wrangler]

Almost looks like a small Malaysian Trumpet Snail (MTS) I see what looks like the rings of the shell but not 100%

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[sealife]

Do they bring disease to humans?
Do they eat plants?

Thanks.

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[fish wrangler]

No diseases that I know of and they don't eat live plants, only dead and decaying ones.

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[candymancan]

My 27g is infested with them.. You don't usually see em when the lights are on.. but they come out at night and tear algae apart.. My heaxagon used to have a lot of algae.. and when I got a new plant they must have hitch hiked.. Now it seems like I have hundreds of them... I personally don't like them anymore because I cant transfer overgrown plants from that tank to another anymore.. They deff don't eat plants and don't bother anything in the tank, they just eat algae and that's it


Im thinking of pouring some copper or some **** in the tank to kill them lol.. I have 2 assassin snails in there but they cant keep up with them.

 

[Mebbid]

Those are Malaysian Trumpet Snails (MTS) The other pest snail that people run into are pond snails

Here are some pest snails that you can wind up with in aquariums

Pond snail

Malaysian Trumpet Snail

Freshwater limpets

MTS are considered a pest snail, but are really quite beneficial for planted aquariums with sand. They keep the sand turned and loose by burrowing into it making the roots have an easier time. I introduced them to my tanks on purpose for this reason and they have done a great job with it.

However, if you have them in gravel they are irritating and pointless to have.

You can keep the population down by not overfeeding the tank. The problem is that a lot of food gets stuck in gravel giving them more than enough food to multiply to plague like proportions. Assassin snails have little to no effect on their population and most fish won't get them since they mostly stay burrowed in the substrate.

The only pest snails that I loathe are the Limpets because they feed solely off of Biofilm and there are no critters that will kill them. Pond snails and MTS are useful in their own way.

 

[fish wrangler]

How are pond snails useful?

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[Mebbid]

How are pond snails useful?

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They eat any uneaten food keeping it from rotting.

 

[Gail]

Take that snail out of your tank, when I purchased fish at PetSmart a snail was in the bag and I thought it would be cute to have A snail, well one snail turns into hundreds. My tank was so infested I had to take all the substrate out of my tank and replace it.

 

[fish wrangler]

Take that snail out of your tank, when I purchased fish at PetSmart a snail was in the bag and I thought it would be cute to have A snail, well one snail turns into hundreds. My tank was so infested I had to take all the substrate out of my tank and replace it.

MTS need 2 to repopulate, and if you ever feed they repopulate even faster

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[Gillie]

It looks like Melanoides granifera, those are much nicer than the regular trumpet snail

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