Very Interesting Situation

[ollysaquariums]

Hey everyone,
I was looking at my african cichlid tank and watching behaviours of fish as I do daily to make sure they’re healthy, and I noticed a snail looking creature. Keep in mind, I never added any inverts and never added any plants, just texas holey rock and fish. The snail looks like one of those pest snails that come from plants: the malaysian trumpet snail. It’s only the shell from what I can see, but it’s disappeared now so must be alive. How on earth could this possibly happen can someone know? It’s extremely confusing..
Thanks for reading.

 

[Fishfur]

Hey everyone,
I was looking at my african cichlid tank and watching behaviours of fish as I do daily to make sure they’re healthy, and I noticed a snail looking creature. Keep in mind, I never added any inverts and never added any plants, just texas holey rock and fish. The snail looks like one of those pest snails that come from plants: the malaysian trumpet snail. It’s only the shell from what I can see, but it’s disappeared now so must be alive. How on earth could this possibly happen can someone know? It’s extremely confusing..
Thanks for reading.

Ever see a new little MTS? They are extremely tiny & could easily be missed at that size.

When did you last add anything to the tank & what was it?

 

[ollysaquariums]

Ever see a new little MTS? They are extremely tiny & could easily be missed at that size.

When did you last add anything to the tank & what was it?

The last thing I added to the tank were new fish. Before that was 2 new holey rocks, but other than that nothing other than fish

 

[Fishfur]

The last thing I added to the tank were new fish. Before that was 2 new holey rocks, but other than that nothing other than fish

Might have sneaked in with them. The newly released little snails are extremely tiny at first & initially at least, float on the water tension where their mother deposits them upon release from her brood pouch.

 

[ollysaquariums]

Might have sneaked in with them. The newly released little snails are extremely tiny at first & initially at least, float on the water tension where their mother deposits them upon release from her brood pouch.

ohh okay, yeah it’s really weird haha

 

[Fishfur]

ohh okay, yeah it’s really weird haha

Snails be sneaky but the one thing it can’t have been was an egg because MTS brood those internally. So no eggs are laid.