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Show MCA Expo 2006 -- the Fish MCA Expo 2006 -- the People	Prologue. You'll see all manner of snails on the market. You'll also encounter many varieties you never expected. Some appear by what used to be called spontaneous generation. Some have links on this page to an entire page of info on them. LA 0.33-inch Physa, common pond snail. The "tank over runner." Common Pond Snails. If you can grow no other snail in the world, you can grow these little guys. Slightly smaller than an inch, these guys can be hard to spot until they take over your aquarium. They lay their little eggs in little blobs of gelatinous material. If you have excellent eye sight, you can see the baby snails moving around in the tiny blobs. Their tinier eggs hide in the axils of aquatic plants. You add supposedly snail-free plants to your aquarium. The eggs hatch and the first thing you know, you're overrun with tiny pond snails. Some 50 species of aquatic snails grow wild in Iowa. Iowa terrestrial species total 130. Pond Snail Advantages. Pond snails work day and night cleaning your aquarium. They eat some algae. They also eat all the extra fish food you add to your tank. Overfeeding ranks #1 as the main reason pond snails overrun your aquarium. Do not overfeed and you won't see a snail population explosion in your tank. Pond Snail Cures. Copper kills snails. Unfortunately, you then have a layer of dead snails in your aquarium -- a pollution problem worse than excess food on the tank floor. And, snail killing remedies usually don't kill all the snails in your tank. If you keep overfeeding, you will soon have lots more snails again. Pond snails are the primo food for puffers. Clown loaches love them. LA A serendipitous discovery. Unusual Pond Snails. You probably will never see these intriguing pond snails unlike any others I have seen. They just appeared out of no where. Their paper-thin shells are translucent. You can see their internal workings without the aid of Clark Kent's glasses. Unfortunately, I lost the strain and have been unable to locate them anywhere. LA Very Fragile Shells. Their shells make them difficult to pick up. They crush very easily -- just the exact opposite of the Malaysian trumpet snails that live in the gravel. You can't crush the trumpets with bare hands. These guys squish quite easily. LA Egg masses on the front glass. Similar Breeders. They lay their eggs on the glass or other smooth surfaces, just like the regular common pond snails. They may have laid eggs before where I couldn't see them. Quite a large egg blob for the size of the parent. I lost the strain. LA Quite large wild Iowa snails. The Other Common Pond Snails. These honker sized snail are better than the Japanese live bearing snails recommended by some pond people. They grow wild in Iowa and attain a respectable size. Unlike the mystery snails, they have gills so they can survive under the Iowa winter ice. Their shells resemble the canned escargot that tickle French palates. If you've ever smelled a dead snail, you know why I would never eat a snail regardless of the quantities of butter and garlic it was cooked in. LA This lid is called an operculum. It closes to protect its skooshy internal workings. LA That weird protuberance above its foot is called a siphon. LA You can see the siphon better on this guy Great in Ponds. These guys make excellent scavengers in garden ponds. Adults are tough enough to stand up to most koi. The youngsters make a good addition to the kois' menus. The weird thing is: They grow dormant when kept in cooler goldfish tanks. They do not lay eggs. They (the females) give birth to live young. LA Here's 165 of the rascals. A raccoon taste treat. More info @ Snail, Trapdoor LA Mystery snails sport a variety of shell colors and flesh colors. Mystery Snails Catch Your Eye. Want different colored snails? Most tank keepers prefer mystery nails. Mystery snails are large enough to see, eat lots of excess food (including dead fish), and usually ignore live plants. Because of their peculiar breeding behavior, they never overrun your tank. Nearly everyone loves mystery snails. More info @ Snail, Mystery LA Apple snails also come in plain brown. Not Street Legal. Back in the olde days (at least two years ago) the feds passed a law prohibiting shipping apple snails across state lines. Apples grow to the size of a baseball and eat rice crops or any other green plant in the water. More nfo @ Snail, Apple Now, the Champion Algae Chompers -- Nerites. Several very similar nerites exist. They are set apart from one another by their size and their shell markings. LA "Olive" nerites come in a range of camouflage colors -- green, brown, olive, etc. Olive Nerites. Several varieties of the algae eating Nerites can be found. The olives are the smallest and cheapest. Olives grow to half the size of the other nerites. Nerites lay numerous single eggs that do not hatch in freshwater. When I kept them in brackish water, they did not lay eggs. Go figure. More info @ Snail, Nerite LA 0.75-inch zebra nerite snail. Excellent algae eater. About twice the size of the olives. LA Zebra. The main difference in most nerites is their shell pattern. All eat algae quite efficiently. LA 0.75-inch tiger nerite snail. Excellent algae eater. Interesting variation. LA Tigers? "Tire tracks" would be more appropriate. LA Even more variety in this batch. More info @ Snail, Nerite LA 1-inch O-ring nerite snail. Nerites (all types) don't like motivating on gravel LA O-ring nerites are more likely than all the other nerites to exit your tank. Only the tank rim stops them. More info @ Snail, O-Ring More info @ Snail, Tiger Nerite More info @ Snail, Zebra Nerite LA Yellow antenna snail. Yellow Antennae Snails. I really can't recommend the yellow antenna snails. They don't move around much -- at least while I'm looking. In that respect they resemble a rock. They have a low survivability score. And they're not very yellow to boot. Besides that, they cost too much (IMnonHO). LA More. Not a very active snail. LA Most do not live very long. LA I caught These guys moving. Good operculum shot. LA Here's another one that actually moved. Kind of ugly in the face. LA Face not so ugly from this vantage point. LA Tearing into an anacharis growth tip. First one I've ever seen eat (out of a couple dozen). LA Same guy three days later LA Malaysian trumpet snail hitching a ride on left. Neither Yellow rabbit snail eating much algae. LA LA Chocolate bunny ear snails. Cool name. Poor survivability. Also expensive. LA Chocolate bunny ear snails. Similar to the yellow antennas -- just a different color. Not very active. LA One of our customers pulled all these ramshorn snails out of her 10-gallon tank. LA Ramdhorn snails growing in Aqualand tanks. LA 0.75-inch ramshorn that looks like it's laying eggs. The red ramshorns are very attractive. LA 0.75-inch albino ramshorn snail. Ramshorn Snails. Ramshorn snails also seem to take over your tank (if you tend to overfeed). In that respect, ramshorn snails perform a very valuable service -- they help keep your fish alive. Ramshorns lay their flat "egg cases" on the glass and other flat surfaces. Their "egg cases" resemble those popcorn skins that stick on your teeth at the movies. They're just a little larger. LA Colombian ramshorn snails eat plants -- even duckweed. They like flake food even more. LA They're about twice the size of the regular ramshorns. LA More info @ Snail, Colombian LA 1-inch land snails from an Iowa garden originally. LA LA Rainy days bring them out. The rest of the time, they clomp down. LA They like mostly green stuff but an occasional carrot works. More info @ Snail, Land LA 1-inch Malaysian trumpet snail. Excellent Filter Aids. Malaysian trumpet snails spend over 90% of their time in and under your substrate. In addition to eating excess fish food, they plow thru your gravel and keep it loose so it filters better. Their extremely hard shell and their burrowing habits make them ideal candidates for an African cichlid tank. Trumpet snails do not harm plants. Cichlids can't crush them. LA Malaysian trumpet snails multiply rapidly. You can remove them easily with a net when they're on the glass. LA They come up out of the graven when oxygen levels get low. These are just little juvies. More info @ Snail, Malaysian LA How about a Snail that Eats Snails? At first glance the assassin snails look like the Malaysian trumpet snails -- until you notice that snorkel looking device sticking out of their face. In a tank, they're still hard to tell apart. LA Similar in shape to the Malayan trumpet snails. Not the Biggest Appetites. At slightly under an inch, the assassin snails can't really eat much. Don't expect them to rip into your unwanted snails (like I did). LA Another Similarity. Assassin snails also love to dive into your substrate like the Malaysian trumpets. Perhaps they're looking for some Malaysian trumpet snacks. In any event, once you put them in your tank, you may not see them again -- or at least for a while. LA Not the Best Snail Eaters. I was disappointed in the appetite of the assassin snails after all the hoopla died down. They may eat other snails better in the wild than in captivity. They do appear to clean up excess fish food. And they do "fluff up" your substrate. So, if you planned to exterminate your snail over population with assassin snails, you may be disappointed. Or plan to spend a lot of time being patient. You may prefer the good old reliable clown loach. There are a few other loaches that perform the same service. (So will cichlids but they're more of a problem than excess snails.) 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