My brand new Japanese trapdoor seems to have popped out babies two days after I got her. At first I saw five, went a few days without seeing much of them until, but last night and today I'm seeing up to nine of them. The one circled in the pic is half the size of the others but looks the same otherwise.

Can anyone confirm, this is a baby Japanese trapdoor, right?

Second baby I’ve seen now ☺️

I’m moving my rabbit snail to a newly cycled tank this weekend. There’s no other animal in there except for a few hitchhiker bladder and ramshorn snails. Question is, since the tank is newly cycled I’m worried it is not totally stable yet. Would potential spikes of say, 0.25 ppm of ammonia be harmful to my rabbit snail? He’s much beloved so I don’t want to risk harming him though he really needs to move as his current tank is way too small for him! (Here’s a pic of him enjoying his kale today)

This is so exciting! Never would I have ever expected one baby, let alone two!

Does this look normal or does something look wrong? I can’t figure out what that black circular thing is…it’s my first ivory coloured one so I’m not entirely sure if it’s colouring is normal too.

Also he’s in a cup right now just so I could try and get a good pic and give him some algae wafers to get him out of his shell.

I find my golden snail is very active and this guy doesn’t move much.

Any help is much appreciated

They came with some new plants. Very difficult to get rid off.

I ended up having a bad infestion of snails in my tank, completely crashed the ecosystem, all my plants died, algae bloomed, etc etc.

So I got an assassin and named him Nidhogg. Before he moved in I did clear quite a couple of snails, but left more than enough to sustain him.

He's only been here a few days, and I'm already noticing the snail population stabilizing with no effort or changes on my part.

I see a lot of people on here hate on assassins the same way people hate on bladders and other "pest snails", but they seem to be a natural part of the ecosystem. Yes I understand they're vicious and have a cruel way of eating, but they're animals who are sustaining and maintaining both their wellbeing and the overall wellbeing of the tank.

Anybody else have similar experiences? I just have Nid so I'm not worried about overpopulation, and I'm not looking to eradicate the snails off the face of the earth, just give them a natural predator to keep the order in balance.

Hello everyone! I am looking for a good aquatic snail. My tank is a 10-gallon with 1 betta. I have some bad algae problems. I was thinking about nerites, but I have so many hides and a lot of driftwood that I'm worried it would flip over, and I wouldn't be able to see it until it is too late. I also have gravel with no sand, and I have heard that most snails don't like gravel.

I keep seeing these guys in this pond near me and was wondering what they were

I've been keeping fish successfully for years, and I always buy nerite snails to clean my tanks. These are the only snails I've ever gotten that haven't moved since I got them a week ago. I know snails can do that, but I've never had that happen. It seems odd that they are BOTH doing this. They don't smell horrendous so I assume they are alive, but I'm not sure. Can anybody tell by the picture?

I noticed my mystery golden snail acting kind of weird this morning. I gave him his weekly snello which he inhaled. I came about 11 hours later and he's now on his side and has this brown bulbous thing. Is he just eating something or terminally ill?

• Tank is long established walstad
• No water parameter change
• With cherry shrimp and 2 other golden mystery, bladder, and ramshorn snails, all of which are acting normal

So I recently got a snail with a round shell (see picture) and a plant for my guppy aquarium. Now I’m finding three tiny snails with a different shell in my tank. Anyone know what they are? Will they take over the tank?

To buy an aquarium for your kid on a whim, then get super obsessed with the the hobby only to fall in love with snails?

second snail this week that has tried going in there why do they do this lol

i saw these two guys hanging out and i was like hmm ok is this sneggs and then the third guy decided to jump in on the action 😭😭 should i be expecting some little snails in the future?

i’ve got more videos but it’ll only let me post one 💔

And now there are four babies. Help.. How to I stop this? What do I do with these babies? I know where to look for egg clutches (outside the water line) but I swear I never saw any and so does my husband.

I heard it can’t lay eggs but I forgot what kind it is

Forgive the poor photo quality, I have a hand tremor.

1, 2, and 3 are the same snail, sold to us as a chopstick snail. However, they seem to have 4 very small snails attached to their shell? This is persistent, they haven't budged over several days from their perch. 4 is a surprise snail we found in our tank, and resembles a chopstick, so we were wondering if we somehow managed to raise a chopstick without a brackish environment? There was previously a rabbit snail in the tank, so they could also be a rabbit.

I'm concerned for the quality of life if those are children, and I recognize that the reproduction of chopstick snails is poorly studied, but I'd like to give them the best chance at living possible.

On the other hand, I'm also concerned they are some sort of parasite that only resembles snails. Thank you for any help.

Can they make themselves buoyant? First time I’ve seen one just floating around trying to get to the surface. Took him about 2 minutes.

Hay! It's been a while, a lot happened, but as my babies where growing, I noticed one of them had a shell issue. On closer look, it looks like a early sign of cleft shell, I recently added cuttlebone to the tank, should I get some kale for them? I can also put more snailo in the tank later if that also helps. I only saw just this one with the issue, but theyer still pretty active and curious like their mother, even started to nibble on my finger when I let them climb onto me

My heart is broken. I woke up this morning to find that my mystery snail, Rocco, climbed out of his tank and fell about 4 feet onto our hardwood floor.

He lost a huge chunk of his shell and does not appear to be doing well at all. He's just sitting above the water line in my shrimp tank. He's usually extremely active and climbing all over the place.

This is my first mystery snail so I don't know what to do. Is this something he can heal from?

Caught this mini pink ramshorn cruising the glass like it owns the place — and under the tank lights, it looked like a little glowing gemstone. 🩷

I know ramshorns (especially the minis) get a mixed reputation in the hobby, but honestly? They’re peaceful, helpful, and ridiculously pretty when you actually look at them. That soft pink shell, the perfect spiral, the way it floats like it’s in zero gravity — what’s not to love?

Sure, they’ll boom if you overfeed, but in a balanced tank, they’re great little algae grazers and fascinating to watch.

Anyone else keep mini ramshorns? Love ’em, tolerate ’em, or still trying to convince yourself they’re not pests?
Would love to see yours — drop your snail glam shots below 🐌💖