Snails

Tanks Master · 02-25-2008, 06:33 PM

I got snails, I dont know where or how. this is a new tank, all that was moved over was the fish, no plants or anything, Where could they have come from

OrionGirl · 02-25-2008, 07:01 PM

Ummm...What kind of snails?

Mgamer20o0 · 02-25-2008, 09:41 PM

MTS you cant kill them

Tanks Master · 02-25-2008, 09:52 PM

Pointy

Bunny13 · 02-26-2008, 07:50 AM

You didn't move over or reuse any gravel?

joephys · 02-26-2008, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by OrionGirl

Ummm...What kind of snails?

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Originally Posted by Tanks Master

Pointy

hmm, snails laying eggs on fish, thats a new one to me.

Filters, filter media, nothing else at all?

SnakeIce · 02-26-2008, 11:01 AM

Ok so the net touched something other than the fish while you were capturing them and collected a hitch hiker. Parthenogenesis does the rest if you are talking about Malaysian trumpet snails.

Tanks Master · 02-26-2008, 01:39 PM

when I say nothing got transferred I literally mean it, they went from 30 gallon to a 40g drum for 2 days then to a 55G QT for a period of time then to their 110
I bleached solutuioned the net to prevent any transfer of anything and I have a huge snail, about 1.5" or so. I diddnt move over media or filters at all

TwoTankAmin · 02-26-2008, 02:33 PM

It is a well known fact that snails mastered beaming technology long before Star Trek first appeared.

Bunny13 · 02-27-2008, 07:19 AM

Is it possible that they were trapped in the larger snail's shell? I know sometimes things and be transfered that way. I don't know if the snails are too small though.

Trixie · 02-27-2008, 07:30 AM

I just always hear the AOL guy's voice saying "Welcome! You have Snails!"

Tanks Master · 02-27-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bunny13

Is it possible that they were trapped in the larger snail's shell? I know sometimes things and be transfered that way. I don't know if the snails are too small though.

I dont see how it's possible, no snails were moved, the only ones I had came with some nice javamoss and I thought the Disc ate them all, but one which I never saw again so I assume it got eaten too, unless a fish crapped a snail (ouch)

DaisyTattoo · 02-27-2008, 04:17 PM

Baby MTS are super small. Lots of times when they first show up its at the surface of the water. Easily coulda been scooped up with a fish. MTS are amazing creatures. The cockroaches of the aquarium world.

Tanks Master · 02-28-2008, 12:43 AM

impossible though, they were moved from too many tanks and only 1 tank had snails plus my nets are sprayed with a bleach solution to keep it from happening. kinda crazy but this time I dont mind

RTR · 02-28-2008, 07:15 AM

And what makes you certain that a bleach spay will kill MTS.? They have opercula, trap doors if you will, which they clamp down quite firmly. That is a survival technique fro bad water conditions, or being out of the water - some can and have surived months in dry stored gravel for me. It is also how the survive the snail toxins sold for hobby use - they just withdraw from the world until conditions improve..

OrionGirl · 02-28-2008, 07:14 PM

I agree. MTS can survive catostrophic conditions. I had them crawl out gravel that had been sitting on the counter, stagnant, barely moist for 2 weeks. One teeny critter, with nothing to compete with would probably be able to grow pretty quickly.

Roan · 02-28-2008, 10:30 PM

They can and will survive clown loaches, too. Not in great numbers, but if you had MTS in a tank and add loaches, I can guarantee that when you remove the loaches -- even years later -- you will see a huge resurgence of MTS. I'm seeing it in one of my 75gs. Tons of them where there seemed to be none.

Roan

Tanks Master · 02-29-2008, 05:25 AM

I got a few more but you'll see them in the new topic

02-25-2008, 06:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tanks Master Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mars Posts: 390	Snails I got snails, I dont know where or how. this is a new tank, all that was moved over was the fish, no plants or anything, Where could they have come from __________________ Visit Florida 3.5 million* pleco's cant be wrong. *This number subject to change ~ A True Friend is someone who thinks your a good egg even though he knows your slightly cracked ~Bernard Meltzer

02-25-2008, 07:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
OrionGirl Miss you, Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Location: California coastline Posts: 6,683	Ummm...What kind of snails? __________________ ~Sheila tempus edax rerum Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way. ~Robert Rosen

02-25-2008, 09:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
Mgamer20o0 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norwalk, CA Posts: 176	MTS you cant kill them __________________ um donuts...... My Tank

02-25-2008, 09:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tanks Master Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mars Posts: 390	Pointy __________________ Visit Florida 3.5 million* pleco's cant be wrong. *This number subject to change ~ A True Friend is someone who thinks your a good egg even though he knows your slightly cracked ~Bernard Meltzer

02-26-2008, 07:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
Bunny13 Dela-where? Join Date: May 2006 Location: Delaware at the moment Posts: 994	You didn't move over or reuse any gravel? __________________ Rachael Sherman's Lagoon Photo Journal of my 20Gallon Planted Tank "As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction."

02-26-2008, 11:01 AM	#7 (permalink)
SnakeIce Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Orem UT Posts: 877	Ok so the net touched something other than the fish while you were capturing them and collected a hitch hiker. Parthenogenesis does the rest if you are talking about Malaysian trumpet snails. __________________ Hello, my name is Frederick and I'm an aquaholic Why inch per gallon is false

02-26-2008, 01:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
Tanks Master Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mars Posts: 390	when I say nothing got transferred I literally mean it, they went from 30 gallon to a 40g drum for 2 days then to a 55G QT for a period of time then to their 110 I bleached solutuioned the net to prevent any transfer of anything and I have a huge snail, about 1.5" or so. I diddnt move over media or filters at all __________________ Visit Florida 3.5 million* pleco's cant be wrong. *This number subject to change ~ A True Friend is someone who thinks your a good egg even though he knows your slightly cracked ~Bernard Meltzer

02-26-2008, 02:33 PM	#9 (permalink)
TwoTankAmin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Westchester Co., NY Posts: 716	It is a well known fact that snails mastered beaming technology long before Star Trek first appeared. __________________ Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.

02-27-2008, 07:19 AM	#10 (permalink)
Bunny13 Dela-where? Join Date: May 2006 Location: Delaware at the moment Posts: 994	Is it possible that they were trapped in the larger snail's shell? I know sometimes things and be transfered that way. I don't know if the snails are too small though. __________________ Rachael Sherman's Lagoon Photo Journal of my 20Gallon Planted Tank "As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction."

02-27-2008, 07:30 AM	#11 (permalink)
Trixie Meow. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Northern VA Posts: 1,360	I just always hear the AOL guy's voice saying "Welcome! You have Snails!" __________________

02-27-2008, 04:17 PM	#13 (permalink)
DaisyTattoo It's a girl Join Date: May 2006 Location: Peoria, Illinois Posts: 3,025	Baby MTS are super small. Lots of times when they first show up its at the surface of the water. Easily coulda been scooped up with a fish. MTS are amazing creatures. The cockroaches of the aquarium world. __________________ It's not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.

02-28-2008, 12:43 AM	#14 (permalink)
Tanks Master Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mars Posts: 390	impossible though, they were moved from too many tanks and only 1 tank had snails plus my nets are sprayed with a bleach solution to keep it from happening. kinda crazy but this time I dont mind __________________ Visit Florida 3.5 million* pleco's cant be wrong. *This number subject to change ~ A True Friend is someone who thinks your a good egg even though he knows your slightly cracked ~Bernard Meltzer

02-28-2008, 07:15 AM	#15 (permalink)
RTR RTR Join Date: May 2006 Location: Exurban MD, USA Posts: 837	And what makes you certain that a bleach spay will kill MTS.? They have opercula, trap doors if you will, which they clamp down quite firmly. That is a survival technique fro bad water conditions, or being out of the water - some can and have surived months in dry stored gravel for me. It is also how the survive the snail toxins sold for hobby use - they just withdraw from the world until conditions improve.. __________________ Where's the fish? - Neptune

02-28-2008, 07:14 PM	#16 (permalink)
OrionGirl Miss you, Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Location: California coastline Posts: 6,683	I agree. MTS can survive catostrophic conditions. I had them crawl out gravel that had been sitting on the counter, stagnant, barely moist for 2 weeks. One teeny critter, with nothing to compete with would probably be able to grow pretty quickly. __________________ ~Sheila tempus edax rerum Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way. ~Robert Rosen

02-28-2008, 10:30 PM	#17 (permalink)
Roan Baroness von Bowhead Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Herdon, VA Posts: 434	They can and will survive clown loaches, too. Not in great numbers, but if you had MTS in a tank and add loaches, I can guarantee that when you remove the loaches -- even years later -- you will see a huge resurgence of MTS. I'm seeing it in one of my 75gs. Tons of them where there seemed to be none. Roan __________________ Rainbowfish: Know your streams and keep them clean! Got rainbowfish? We do! http://Bowheads.org/forums/ Bowheads! No bull, just bows. It's about bows by the bowheads who keep them.

02-29-2008, 05:25 AM	#18 (permalink)
Tanks Master Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mars Posts: 390	I got a few more but you'll see them in the new topic __________________ Visit Florida 3.5 million* pleco's cant be wrong. *This number subject to change ~ A True Friend is someone who thinks your a good egg even though he knows your slightly cracked ~Bernard Meltzer

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