When they say you might get snails...

[KatGoneFishing]

...this is not the sort of snail I would expect.

 

I guess I have a nerite snail, now! 😂

(P.S. Co-op, you might want to add another nerite to the store tank with the crypt parva, as the one that was in there is now on the other side of the state.)

[Katherine]

So pretty!

[KatGoneFishing]

They really are! I actually really love the way my bladder and ramshorns look (less fond of the sheer number of bladder snails, tbh), but I'm setting up a new tank and was thinking about getting a mystery or nerite snail for this one, so this works out, ahaha.

[Guppysnail]

Wow. Upgrade! They stopped sending stickers and started sending nerites 😍🤣

[JettsPapa]

I had a very small horned nerite snail show up in my 40 gallon breeder tank a few months ago.  I assume it came in with plants also, but I'll never know for sure.

[KatGoneFishing]

@Guppysnail I actually got this one in store, but I don't think I'd complain if they started sending free snails, lol!

@JettsPapa It's probably the best surprise snail to get, I feel, since they don't overpopulate and they're pretty to look at.

[Mitch_ScruffyCityAquatics]

I can’t get over how big that Crypt Parva is! I’ve never seen one in a basket that size. LoL

[KatGoneFishing]

They were all that size! I got two baskets when I was there and the plants were the same size as the others in the tank. So, uh, I definitely recommend getting them from the Co-op? 😂

[lefty o]

that is sooooo much better than the normal snails you get with plants! go buy your lottery ticket!

[KatGoneFishing]

Right? As much as I do like my bladder and ramshorn snails, this just feels much nicer, ahaha.

[Tanked]

So grandma was right.   Little (snails) that misbehave do get sent upstate, or to the orphanage.

[PerceptivePesce]

Cool story 😎

Are nerite & mystery snails like the mules of snails? Some kind of hybrid that can't reproduce? 

[KatGoneFishing]

On 10/1/2022 at 5:36 AM, Tanked said:

So grandma was right.   Little (snails) that misbehave do get sent upstate, or to the orphanage.

On 10/1/2022 at 7:50 AM, PerceptivePesce said:

Are nerite & mystery snails like the mules of snails? Some kind of hybrid that can't reproduce? 

Not at all. They are individual species of snail, not hybrids, and both are perfectly capable of reproduction, given the right environment. Mystery snails will reproduce in freshwater, and even if you get a single one, if it's a female that was housed with a male at some point in the last year-ish, there's a decent chance she'll lay fertile eggs. Nerite snails, however, live in freshwater, but they hatch in brackish. So a female might lay eggs in your tank, but unless you have a brackish water setup, the eggs won't hatch. Both mystery and nerite snails are some of the preferred types for anyone that absolutely don't want nails to reproduce and take over, because nerites just won't be able to and it's very easy to remove a mystery snail egg cluster and just not let it hatch.