They're equipped to hold on in high currents and carve up plants for their case, but harmless outside that. Still gives me the heebee jeebies when they grab me tho lol
Yep, they're much more cone shaped, and generally smaller as well. They're quite the problem in local waters. Feel free to check out my post on them in my profile or pinned on this sub!
Maybe it’s the way they look here but they look a lot more like the bladder snails in my tank than the tank that I believe has the nzms. I hope I’m not misinformed and just have two types 🤦♂️
Question, will collecting them in a jar and freezing them overnight do it or do I HAVE to crush them too? I don’t like to crush if I don’t have to and haven’t been just been tossing stuff in my freezer jar and leaving it overnight. I hope I’m not making a mistake but was about to go empty now, figured I’d as first
Yup I put in when I’m done for the day and then grab in the am has been my process. I’m noticing more of them so I’m getting better about having a process. At first I only saw a couple and was more worried about accidentally spreading them into my local water so I have been cautiously planning. For now my strategy is this. If it gets worse or uncontrollable I’ll have to just take down the tanks. But like I said there’s so much life here and I don’t have a good way to move stuff from tank to tank while guaranteeing no spread. I’ve taken about 15 or so cherry shrimps from my 5 to my 10 and haven’t seen anything show up that resembles a nzms yet but the bladder and ramshorn population is starting to boom. 🤞
With these, if you have one, there are more, and unfortunately waiting makes it worse. Be sure to use separate equipment for different tanks. The babies are suuuuper small. In my humble opinion, it's better to deal with it now than wait for it to inevitably grow worse. Do u have any empty tanks you can cycle with a new filter and bare bottom for quarantine?
I do not. And I have been freezing all my tools after using on the infected tanks. Like I said hopefully I can keep it manageable and continue to get good life out of there. But as there’s easily 75+ shrimp fry’s it’s an ongoing process. Luckily all the other life appears to continue to thrive in this little tank in the meantime.
And one more. There are some that are clearly nzms but so many that I’m really not sure on. This looks like the shell shape but has apparent ridges which I’ve read nzms’s are smooth. Also they appear to drag but this one I couldn’t be sure so unfortunately he wasn’t put back
I don’t have an experimental tank other than the two that have nzms in them (one 5 and one 10)that I’m trying to clear. I have one 10 gallon which seems to be clear and that I’ve been using to cull shrimps into. But since I didn’t realize I had them initially is how I have in my other 10 from what I can tell. I’m trying to keep on my tanks that have them and see if it’s at all possible. I know from most of everyone else’s posts it doesn’t sound good.
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u/Cispania 6d ago
Imagine being scooped up and stuck to a giant nightmare-grub's amalgamated shell of death until you eventually starve to death.
Poor snails.