The nano apparently already had a snaily inhabitant
Posted by Anja on March 7, 2008 at 18:47 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 18:56He looks different from the ones I had so far. This one is about 1,5 mm. Ramshorn?
Looking around for the macro snails, I noticed that there’s also a batch of eggs on the Vals:
And here I thought I’d be bored waiting for the fish. ;o)
The eggs seem to be hatching. There are teensy snails in the nano now:
About the size of a quarter pin head. I left the side of the tank in the picture when I cropped, so you get the thickness of the glass and the silicone strip for scale.
And? Is that a Physa?
Anyone want to hazard a guess? To me those triangular horns (see 2 pics below) look quite different from the one I first fished out and think is a physa. But I find it hard to get relevant info on the net. The pages that are there all seem to be disagreeing as far as taxonomy is concerned.
And another one:
Both have been kicked into the nano. I also found more leaves with eggs (they were on the Crypts), which I at this point just threw out. I’m sure there’ll be more.
Found another one in the big tank.
And here’s the captured snail
Posted by Anja on March 6, 2008 at 18:43 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 17:01… that I think belongs to the eggs (or vice versa). It looks like a tadpole snail (Physa), about 2-3 mm:
I put her and the leaf w/ eggs in the nano tank. I was afraid she’d run out of oxygen in the jam jar. Here she’s on her way to the surface to get some air:
Takin’ a deeeeep breath.
Happily munching away.
Here’s a better picture of the eggs:
It’s easier to photograph in the tank than in the jam jar. ;o)
A view of the nano tank after replacing the twisted with the straight Val:
If you look closely, you can see a speck on the glass; that’s the snail heading back down after her breather.
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Seems I have imported some small snails with the plants:
They’re hard to make out, so I put up a trap. Maybe I can identify them. I want to know if they’re friend or foe. Looking around, I also spotted some eggs on a leaf. Sorry for the poor picture quality. I have to learn to take pics through water. I carefully put the berried leaf in a jar with aquarium water to see what’s going to happen.
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