Unknown Snail Infestation in my tank

[mistahoo]

After having MTS before, I can safely say that there is no other snail that reproduces as fast as it...

[troy tucker]

Famous last words.

I can safely say that there is no other snail that reproduces as fast as it...

They will make great puffer food.

[mistahoo]

Yup

[mistahoo]

Looks like most of them are gonna die. Drained the tank and setup a new tank with the water, filters, and rocks. They're gonna pop up again in the new tank, but I don't really care as long as they don't eat live fish!

[Jozle]

Typical pond snails. Their eggs look like a small yolk sac with a bunch of little white dots in the center. I would know because I took advantage of these mass reproducing snails as food for my now dead pea puffer. Well, they're going to be food for the asellus. They'll have a massive population boom and then start dying off if you have competition over food. My MTS took over the tank because I wasn't using them as puffer food and so the pond snails are now dying off.

[mistahoo]

Even though MTS reproduces ridiculously, I would never purposely introduce it into any of my tanks EVER! Not even as a food source! I hate those things! I caused a MTS holocaust when I first started the hobby. Sifted out some substrate that had over billions of MTS ranging from babies to 1.5". Tossed them out to dry and then boiled water and dunked the substrate in it. I've never seen so much MTS concentrated in one place before!

[Jozle]

Lol, I kept them alive only in my trash tank. Every other tank is mts pest free.

[mistahoo]

Eff that! I wouldn't want that thing anywhere in my house!

[Jozle]

Cmon, they're fun animals to kill. So many ways to slaughter them, squishing, feeding, boiling, drying, acetone swimming, freezing. That's animal abuse isn't it? Screw it, survival of the fittest in a very sadistic way.

[Totenkampf]

its weird i just had a bloom of pond snails in my 75 and have not introduced anything new to it in months. i did change the water with aged water that i had outside overnight...i wonder if it somehow got containminated in that time. i hate pond snails more than MTS, i think they probably repro faster than MTS, you just dont see the MTS til its too late. i may be trying pea puffers sooner than i thought lol.

[mistahoo]

LOL I think the pond snails were on the hose I was using and then bam, they're in the tank. Oh well. That's the whole reason I have a bunch of ramshorn! Hooray for puffer food!