Snail photos

[clk89]

Speaking of babies, my chestnut girl has laid two batches. Her partner in crime is a blue mystery snail stud, so I'll have to see what the babies end up being when they hatch. Here she is laying away on her second clutch of eggs, sorry it's a bit blurry I took the flash off so as not to disturb her.

 

[paoergames]

Love it when they have babies!

Here's my baby Assassin



And one of the original snails.

 

[LJC6780]

My blue mystery snails finally have laid egg clutches that have hatched!! After about 10 non viable clutches over a few weeks, I've had 2 hatch so far with I think 7 clutches currently cooking! I noticed 1 turning bluish today so I should get some more babies soon!! Here are a few pics.


And then today


They are not quite the size of a BB at this point.. so tiny and cute!

 

[JLeeM]

Just want to take a minute to brag about my little blue mystery. First of all I'm not exactly sure about the gender but leaning towards female. So there's that. She has gotten a lot more active though since getting her. When that started she started growing really fast too. She was a lot smaller than my black racer nerite, but she's quickly catching up. I try to keep lots of minerals in the water with cuttlebone, and I feed her zucchinI which she and the ottos love. You can almost see new shell growth on a daily basis now. Check out the pictures!

First Picture: Day of purchase 5-10-17
Second: First noticed growth 5-27-17
Third: Current growth 5-31-17

Oh and the before mentioned ottos are also helping slowly clean the algae off of her.

 

[Aquaphobia]

Watched my gold mystery climb onto a frogbit plant and sink it whereupon it made its way to the glass and back up to the top!

 

[JLeeM]

We love our snails. Our newer mystery is finally becoming active which is exciting to us.

Older photos of our first (and favorite) Mystery Snail. It's a blue male.


Our single Horned Zebra Nerite. Gender unknown.


Our two Black Racer Nerites. Love how different they are.


Initial meeting between our male Blue Mystery and female Ivory Mystery.


Couple days after introducing the Ivory.


Little bit later on meeting of the two. This is how we finally determined genders.


Newer shot of the Ivory. She's FINALLY starting to come out and about once in a while.


Just got this shot. Loved it, had to share. This tower is where she always hides.

 

[LJC6780]

Took this last night of my fighting conch climbing on the glass. I've never seen it do anything but cruise the floor so this was a shock.

 

[THE HABITAT]

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[kbraz303]

This is my Gold Mystery Snail. His name is Paz

 

[samantha.h]

Not the best pictures, but these are my current inhabitants! I love snails so much. ️

Also, some of them have really weird/stupid names, so don't judge me! Haha.

 

[samantha.h]

Here's another picture of Lester! I wanted to show off how much growth s/he has had since I bought him/her last week!



Hopefully you can see that beautiful growth line!

 

[rianpigman]

A baby blue mystery cruising around on the glass

 

[samantha.h]

I feel like I'm blowing up this thread, but I took some more pictures that turned out really nice!

The little guy is my new magenta MS that I got from Ryan1824.

 

[fishtankwatcher]

1 of our new red ramshorn

 

[THE HABITAT]

My new mystery snail..he thinks he's small like a Nerite I guess

My fearless and indestructible rams horn that caught a free ride on some Java moss a couple months ago...he has been moved to all 3 of my tanks and has been stuck on my filter intake twice and had even been outside in a fishbowl over night cuz I thought he was a goner...but he's still cranking along ..although I think his last stick to the intake damaged one of his feelers ...so he snails along a little sideways..who r we to judge

Attempted escapee

 

[grantm91]

HOB surfing

 

[THE HABITAT]

Got a new ivory mystery snail and made friends with one of my nerites already...or was it the other way around

 

[Keystone]

One of my bladder snails

More bladder snail pics

Another bladder snail pic

 

[jmaldo]

My Newest Addition - Rabbit Snails. Last 2 enjoying the Alder Cones.

 

[Keystone]

Chinese/MinI Ramshorns

 

[samantha.h]

Hey! The label on the plant tube said "snail-free"!



"Did somebody say decaying plant matter?! It's lunchtime!"



This piggy doesn't want to share any of the Snello that I put in this morning! She's practically eaten the entire piece by herself!

 

[Keystone]

Ramshorn

 

[jmaldo]

Thanks samantha.h for the vid. So easy. Have to try it. Here is another pic. Sharing a Algae wafer.

 

[THE HABITAT]

A recent one that emerged from the Java moss

 

[Keystone]

More ramshorns

 

[THE HABITAT]

My blue/white mystery snail goin through the car wash

 

[Keystone]

Ramshorns

 

[Lazy Herper]

Does this snail shell look healthy? Making sure I'm not seeing any cracks. Never had a snail before and I've been reading up and want to make sure. Will be providing calcium soon. Already gave it some zucchinI and it loved it!

 

[Keystone]

Ramshorns again:

 

[jmaldo]

Sharing a piece of Brussel sprout.

 

[Keystone]

Ramshorns again

 

[AriesAngel420]

A few babies

Apple dude floating along

 

[Keystone]

Still more ramshorns

 

[AriesAngel420]

Does this snail shell look healthy? Making sure I'm not seeing any cracks. Never had a snail before and I've been reading up and want to make sure. Will be providing calcium soon. Already gave it some zucchinI and it loved it!

Looks good! Those lines can occur anytime water parameters change or temperature like moving them to different tank or doing a water change

 

[Keystone]

Some more ramshorns

 

[jmaldo]

Caught a couple of pics of a Baby Mystery about the size of a BB. (Smaller than a pea)

 

[jmaldo]

Baby Mystery snails

 

[Leroux2008]

sorry for the cherry shrimp also in the pictures and kind of dirty glass lol

*edit* forgot to mention species... x.x

The first picture is a mystery snail I am going to take a shot and assume Pomacea bridgesii. Picked him up from LFS last week. He is by far my favorite one. I have two other Gold Inca snails in this tank but no pictures of them. In all the other pictures it is in my smaller Cherry shrimp tank and there is a mix of Ramshorn snails in there all hatched from my first few I had that eventually ended up Clown loach food by mistake. When I moved the caves over to the shrimp tank apparently the eggs hitched a ride also and hatched The other snails that are in this tank the larger ones are Pomacea canaliculata. Also apple snails but these guys get to the size of a large golf ball....softballs? Really huge lol. Oh also have Malaysian trumpet snails in one of my other tanks but didn't get any pictures yet they are taking off like mad I have just been moving some from tank to tank.
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Baby Mystery snails

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What kind of substrate is this if you don't mind sharing? Looks really nice and I have been trying to decide on a good black substrate to go with for my Cherry shrimp and snails.

Forgot to add this picture with the other pictures this is the largest Pomacea canaliculata I have found so far. All the babies I have I hatched from egg cases I found locally.

 

[JLeeM]

Those antenna though.

 

[Michael Siwula]

This is my Ivory Mystery Snail, Larry. I also have a Blue Mystery Snail and a Good Mystery Snail, named Terry and Gary respectively. They’re not in the picture because they’re in that pineapple .

I gotta say I’m really surprised by these guys. They’re fun to watch. They move fast and they like to crawl to the top of my tank, just to let go and fall down to the bottom again.

I would highly recommend getting any kind of Mystery Snail over a Nerite Snail. I had nerite snails multiple times, and they never quite took to my tank. They’d die after a week and never really moved around a whole lot. Maybe it was just the place I was getting them from, but my Mysteries have been great!

 

[JLeeM]

My little horned zebra nerite exploring the banana plant.

 

[JLeeM]

Went Christmas shopping today. Went by PetCo just for me to finish up. Finally found a tiger nerite that was good enough to bring home! I also got some kind of little plant tied to a rock (probably will create a thread later for ID help). It'll be going in my quarantine tank along with my old black racer nerite which will hopefully help clean some of the algae off of it. Lastly, I bought a Versa glass lid for my 40B. Anyway, here's my new little friend.

 

[Mcasella]

Finally scared one of my assassins out of the sand, so he started to go under the sand again.

 

[T'Pol]

Neelix is my golden mystery snail

 

[Elice]

After messi9ng around with food and temperatures for about 2 months, I tried a different hood on, and voila! Eggs this am!

 

[jmaldo]

King of the Driftwood.

 

[JLeeM]

Got a picture of two of my nerites together. The black nerite just came out of the sand, so it has some still stuck to it. Just wanted to share.

 

[samantha.h]

My bumblebee is always piggybacking on my other nerites! Here it is on my zebra nerite.

 

[Bithimala]

 

[Skye_marilyn]

I have some new mysteries, two golds and a brown striped, their names are sleepy, dozer and chestnut. Their shells aren’t as pretty as some others I’ve seen bc I rescued them full grown (except chestnut he’s still a baby) and they already had some shell damage, not to mention being in an overcrowded tank. They went into my 10 gallon betta tank but the betta was chomping at their antennas so they are now in a breeder box. They are super cute and love zucchini.