snails?! how?!?!

[willowthepoet]

today i had a particularly invigorating phone call (ha) during which i was watching my tank, when i noticed a brownish dot on the side. i thought it was a bug on the outside, or a spot of the various things my dogs may leave wherever their noses fall, so i go to wipe it off.

it's on the inside. upon closer inspection, i notice it moving. it is one of those tiny pest snails.

normally this would not be cause for too much alarm, but i haven't put ANYTHING in this tank in at least a year, and the tank has never had live plants, ever.

i have no idea where they came from. any clues?

 

[Aquarium Freak]

Sometimes BBS eggs have extra little surprises like that but I doubt it just a theory do you feed BBS? Snails are in everyone of my tanks and I love them they are so cool! These are fancy Mystery Snails Though!

 

[willowthepoet]

nope, i only feed flake and bloodworms.

i like them too, so i'm not worried. just terribly confused.

 

[plecoperson]

Do you have a canister filter? They can lurk in the biomedia there. Otherwise I would start to frisk visitors!!!

 

[tropicfishman]

that is pretty crazy, happened to me one time, crushed the little booger trying to get him out, never has happened agian, althought I wouldn't mind it as much now

 

[Mosaic]

Snails sometimes take a long time to show themselves. I intentionally added a batch of newborn ramshorns to a tank 3 months ago and never saw them, so I assumed they didn't make it. Then all of a sudden this week, there are a bunch of adult snails all over the place. They are sneaky guys.

It is odd to have them if you've never had plants though.

 

[hc8719]

i never had any "new" plants in my 55 gallon, but then i found pond snail shells, and an MTS shell i suppose my kuhlis got to. snails are weird like that

 

[Zagz]

I had snails hide out in the cannister filter for my 75 gal for 7 months. When I moved suddenly they "appeared" when the tank was set up in the new house.