Eggs on Guppy Grass

[PotatoYourPotato]

What are these eggs in my Guppy grass I bought from someone yesterday.

 

[IzabelB]

What’s the stocking of the tank?

 

[mattgirl]

My guess would be snail eggs. I have no idea as to what kind of snails though. could be ramshorn, pond, bladder or anyone's guess. If you don't want to get overrun with them I suggest you pull the plants back out of there and remove every egg you find.

 

[awilkinson871]

Snails.

 

[PotatoYourPotato]

Found some snails in some of the plants

 

[IzabelB]

Found some snails in some of the plants

That’s a bladder snail. Remove any snails and eggs as well as the plants the they came on until you decide if you want them or not.

 

[barbiespoodle]

I'll leave it up to you as to what you want to do. I'm just going to put in my experience.

I ended up with what is either classified as pond snails or bladder snails, on plants I add to my tanks.

Regardless of which species, they became a huge problem and remain a large problem for me.

You will hear from some who say that they will not become a problem if not over fed. That in itself depends on your tank make up.

In my case, that was a bunch of bull, they exploded in population. Ok, to be fair, in my 55 community, after I added the right combination of algae eaters, the numbers are now down from totally coating the side of the tank to a few, but this took awhile. But in other tanks, like my shrimp tanks, what makes good shrimp food makes even better bladder snail food and they are a constant source of work to keep their numbers under control.

Even now after adding assassin snails, which have been a great help, I still am doing what I call "snail patrol". I'm in the habit of turning on room lights before I turn on tank lights to kind of give the various tank residents time to wake up slowly. At that time I find the snails on the side of the glass and work to remove them. On an average morning I'll remove at least 50 or more bladder snails between the 7 tanks.

Personally, if I was you and knew what I didn't know then, I would just nip it in the bud right now.

Believe it or not, I actually like snails and keep several other types. Oh heck, I even have a gallon jug of bladder snails. I may hate them, but I also like them, if that makes any sense. But there are so many other snails that won't be such a problem. And if you decide to keep what you have, may I suggest you add some assassin snails? They are pretty snails, have a pretty bumblebee pattern and will feed on the snails. They made a big difference in the red shrimp tank and I'm moving their babies into the blue shrimp tank, cull shrimp tank and cory fry grow out tank, will take a while before they make a difference in those tanks.

 

[Jayce0]

I'll leave it up to you as to what you want to do. I'm just going to put in my experience.

I ended up with what is either classified as pond snails or bladder snails, on plants I add to my tanks.

Regardless of which species, they became a huge problem and remain a large problem for me.

You will hear from some who say that they will not become a problem if not over fed. That in itself depends on your tank make up.

In my case, that was a bunch of bull, they exploded in population. Ok, to be fair, in my 55 community, after I added the right combination of algae eaters, the numbers are now down from totally coating the side of the tank to a few, but this took awhile. But in other tanks, like my shrimp tanks, what makes good shrimp food makes even better bladder snail food and they are a constant source of work to keep their numbers under control.

Even now after adding assassin snails, which have been a great help, I still am doing what I call "snail patrol". I'm in the habit of turning on room lights before I turn on tank lights to kind of give the various tank residents time to wake up slowly. At that time I find the snails on the side of the glass and work to remove them. On an average morning I'll remove at least 50 or more bladder snails between the 7 tanks.

Personally, if I was you and knew what I didn't know then, I would just nip it in the bud right now.

Believe it or not, I actually like snails and keep several other types. Oh heck, I even have a gallon jug of bladder snails. I may hate them, but I also like them, if that makes any sense. But there are so many other snails that won't be such a problem. And if you decide to keep what you have, may I suggest you add some assassin snails? They are pretty snails, have a pretty bumblebee pattern and will feed on the snails. They made a big difference in the red shrimp tank and I'm moving their babies into the blue shrimp tank, cull shrimp tank and cory fry grow out tank, will take a while before they make a difference in those tanks.

Yeah, if you have a large tank with a bunch of fish, thats a lot of food for snails.. if you have a smaller tank you'll probably be alright, especially if you just have a betta (which was my case).

Also, to figure out if its bladder or pond, the easiest way other than size (pond snails are called giant pond snails for a reason) is the shape of their antennaes; pond snails have really cute short, triangular ones that look like sharp bunny ears! Bladder snails just have long skinny ones.

 

[barbiespoodle]

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Yeah, if you have a large tank with a bunch of fish, thats a lot of food for snails.. if you have a smaller tank you'll probably be alright, especially if you just have a betta (which was my case).

Also, to figure out if its bladder or pond, the easiest way other than size (pond snails are called giant pond snails for a reason) is the shape of their antennaes; pond snails have really cute short, triangular ones that look like sharp bunny ears! Bladder snails just have long skinny ones.

Good info, I have bladder snails, dang it!

And it's funny that my largest tank, the 55 gallon, was the easiest tank to get rid of the problem. Yes I have to add not only more food but also a wider variety type of food to accommodate the residents, but I have managed to get (knock on wood), the right combination of fish to eat all the food I feed, thus starving out the bladder snails.

It's my smaller tanks, 3-20 gallons, 2-10 gallons and 1-3 1/2 gallon, that are my problem since they are more specialized tanks as far are residents.

Sigh, it's a battle, me against the snails, and the snails are winning, lol. I have come to the conclusion that when we finally get stupid enough to ruin this wonderful planet we were gifted with, the only things that will survive will be rats, cockroaches and bladder snails.