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I'm pretty sure those are snails. That's exactly what baby snails look like in my tank. I have a ton of them right now. Do you have anything in your tank that might eat them? If you don't really feed the snails and they don't have algae to munch on then I believe they will just die out.

They were holding hands

Omg what is that don't sleep tonight!!!

Man... as much as I find puffers cute I have to say that's pretty boring being unable to keep anything else in the tank with it.

Yes, I sourced them from a local river. I would never do something as irresponsible as releasing a non-native species into the wild. Our island has enough invasive animals threatening our ecosystem as it is! Also, turns out they did escape, but I returned them to the tank and they haven't left...

I thought maybe Nerites would be big enough to avoid getting eaten since the one I have in my tank is like an inch, maybe even a little bigger than an inch long, but I am not so certain anymore... I do like having a few snails in my tank to help with algae but is the DP just gonna murder them all?

What is your water temperature?

Does your snail ever hide? I woke up this morning and the two snails were nowhere to be seen... kind of worried they might have escaped but I'm pretty sure they didn't leave the tank. Man I like the snails but I do not need eggs in my tank as a permanent fixture lol. Maybe I can return them to...

Oh no haha you only have one Nerite and it lays eggs? I saw the eggs today in the river and they looked hard to get rid of... I heard they don't even hatch in freshwater so now I'm worried. In fact the one I got has egg casing marks on its shell! I thought they were a design until I looked close.

How often do you feed him the snails? I have Ramshorn snails and recently some Lymnaea snails that hitchiked some plants into my tank. How big do the snails have to be for him to eat them? How do you deal with having to remove the snail carcasses after?

From all the research I've done, it appears that Dwarf Puffers are the only puffer that is completely freshwater and does not need a diet of snails or mollusks for its teeth. There are people that feed it worms exclusively, but all the research I've done indicate that each fish can vary wildly...

I agree with above post. I had some issues with my filter for a few days and I think my tank cycle went out of whack... slowly started to see less and less snails til I didn't see anymore. I even saw a graveyard in my canister filter lol... then maybe a week or two later I started seeing them...

I think any type of puffer would attempt to eat the crab... it honestly just depends, though. A dwarf puffer yes is freshwater only unlike all other puffers. Fish do have different personalities but from what I know most puffers are pretty aggressive when it comes to critters... I mean people...

So I've been slooooooooooowly getting my tank ready for a dwarf puffer and in the process was going to breed ramshorn snails, but eventually decided against it after finding out that they don't need to eat hard foods to keep their teeth in check and that in a lot of cases they can't really even...

Pretty hard. There is a lot of limestone in the water so we actually use a softener system for the house and business.

The water here is pretty hard and I heard that you don't have to worry so much about calcium for your snails if that's the case, but I just wanted to make sure... I actually just picked up two nerite snails from a local river today because my tank was being overrun with algae and I want to take...

That is terrifying. They look like some sort of parasite! Could they maybe be Planaria worms?

It's just sitting at the way top of the tank riding the waterline upside down but it's like twisting and turning its shell from one direction to the other. It was doing that earlier when I did a water change so I thought something was wrong with it and I picked it up but when I set it back down...

I think the easiest thing would be to try and sell them locally, that way you don't have to worry about shipping them out. You can join local facebook aquarium groups or on reddit there is a subreddit /r/aquaswap.