True Mystery Snail

[Lpedwards]

I’m hoping someone can identify this snail for me. I originally purchased it in a pet store as a nerite snail, without realizing that it couldn’t possibly be a nerite snail because it is not olive shaped. Even my specialty fish shop near me isn’t sure what it is! It resembles a mystery snail, but its body is nowhere near as round and bulky as a mystery snail’s. The base of it is a light brown tapering off to a pale white-ish blue at the top. I don’t think it’s one of the invasive species in our Michigan freshwater lakes, because its body is less than an inch long and it’s not growing. I also know it is not a mystery snail because it’s face, if I can call it that, is different from the mystery snail’s. It is more rounded like a nerite snail’s face, and it doesn’t have four little antennae things like a mystery snail does, only two. I have no complaints with this snail; it regularly makes trips up to the top to get air and then comes back down. It does not bury itself like my real nerites do. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Demeter]

I’d say Japanese trap door snail.

 

[APColorado]

It looks like a mystery snail with calcium deficiency

 

[Charlie’s Dad]

He is a handsome fella. Add a tidbit of a regular tums in for his shell. My snails enjoy the 'meds' as if it were a treat.

 

[Lpedwards]

I’d say Japanese trap door snail.

I completely agree, I have been doing a bit of research! You hit the nail on the head, thank you so much! In my reading it said that this kind of snail likes smooth substrate, and I’d like to put it in a larger tank because right now it’s only in a 1 1/2 gallon tank with two other snails. I’d like to add it to my 10 gallon tank, where I have three mystery snails. But I’m concerned about the substrate, because it is white rock. It says these guys like sand. Do you think he would be OK if I put him in the tank with white rocks and not get scratched up? Or should I leave him where he is, which is also on rocks but they are brown....? I mean seriously, do you think the white rocks are actually sharper than the brown rocks where he seems fine??

 

[Demeter]

If your mystery snails are fine on that gravel then the trap door should be too.

 

[Lpedwards]

If your mystery snails are fine on that gravel then the trap door should be too.

Thank you!