Saturday, November 19, 2011

How do I tell a wandering snail from another water snail?

Hi, I have snails in my tropical aquarium and I wanted to know if they were the toxic wandering snails or another water snail. I have only three at the moment after introducing some plants to the tank?|||The wandering snail has a tall-spired, brownish shell with a very large opening, but the colour is often obscured by a covering of greyish or brownish encrustation. The body of the snail is translucent grey-brown. A very common species, it will colonise weedy garden ponds. It is the pond snail most likely to be seen out of the water, climbing on to emergent vegetation or on to mud on the bank. It does not travel far from the water, always staying in very damp situations. Eggs, in strips of clear jelly, are laid on water plants in the summer.





This is useful species to have in a pond since rotting vegetation will de-oxygenate the water and this snail helps to clean it up.|||i need a picture|||They are just water snails

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