what snail hitch hiked into my tank? lol

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Bladder snail. He's a good guy.

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u/mytherical 10d ago

so so cute, taking name suggestions for him

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u/eerie_fart 10d ago

Booger

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u/mytherical 10d ago

love it

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u/Kattoncrack 9d ago

Prepare yourself for the booger army

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u/mytherical 9d ago

thats so cute lol

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u/The_Night_Badger 10d ago

Here is advice for all bladder snails. If you start to get a lot in your tank suddenly, that means you are feeding your fish too much. Less feeding is less breeding for bladder snails. They will eat every single piece of food the fish let go to waste.

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u/deadrobindownunder 10d ago

This is great advice. Yet another purpose that the noble bladder snail serves.

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u/mytherical 10d ago

thank you! i’ve only got one other fish a betta in the tank, and i actually feed my betta 1 at a time to make sure no food gets wasted

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u/The_Night_Badger 10d ago

Well maybe give the snails a lil treat then, lol

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u/mytherical 10d ago

algae wafers okay?

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u/deadrobindownunder 10d ago

They'll go all in on any kind of green blanched vegetable. So next time you don't want to eat your broccoli, throw them a little slice.

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u/mytherical 10d ago

ooo alright thanks :)

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u/The_Night_Badger 10d ago

Yep maybe half a one. That's big for a snail

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u/Kattoncrack 9d ago

Be warned: Bettas are smart. Mine sucks bladder snails out of their shells.

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u/mytherical 9d ago

yea i was preparing to set up a backup tank if need be, but now im definitely setting one up because i only have a 5.5 gal tank for my betta and i don’t want it to get too overpopulated :)

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u/sidetablecharger 10d ago

Blad the Impaler

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u/mytherical 10d ago

i’ve been calling him booger already but love that too 🥰

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u/spinningpeanut 10d ago

Is this one booger or will all of them be booger?

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u/mytherical 9d ago

they will all be booger, booger army

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u/deadrobindownunder 10d ago

That's actually brilliant

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u/i_torogo 10d ago

Blad Pitt

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u/Expensive_Ear3791 10d ago

Bladimir Putin

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u/ahawk65 10d ago

Just a lil bladder snail. Congrats on your new hundreds. ;)

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u/mytherical 10d ago

hahaha thank u, is there anything i should buy for him??

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u/ahawk65 10d ago

Nah, honestly. They’ll live symbiotically with your other livestock. If you don’t have other fish or shrimp or snails you’re feeding, a pinch of fish food every week or so will keep them well fed. They’ll live off anything.

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u/mytherical 10d ago

thank you!

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u/Gastropoid Snail God (Moderator) 10d ago

Bladder snail. Harmless algae and detritus eaters. Won't eat healthy plants, and only reproduces heavily if you have a lot of dead plants or overfeed your fish. Good at turning algae and detritus into plant fertilizer.

Self fertilizing hermaphrodites, so you only need one to get a nice little colony started to help keep algae under control.

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u/dandadone_with_life 10d ago

congrats on the 300 new snails ☺️

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u/mytherical 10d ago

im worried lol

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u/dandadone_with_life 10d ago

you shouldn't be unless you want to stop the invasion now. but my tank is infested with bladder snails, and besides aesthetics there's nothing wrong with them. i'm sure they're helping out somehow, plus it's kind of entertaining to watch them ascend from the ground to the top like they're being abducted, and walk upside down on the surface of the water.

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u/mytherical 10d ago edited 10d ago

i don’t want it to be infested because i only have a 5.5 gal, should i set up a new tank and move him and any others to it once it’s cycled?

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u/dandadone_with_life 9d ago

yep. because one will turn into hundreds in no time at all. eggs take only days to hatch. so if you have one, you have hundreds. if you don't want them in a tank you need to remove any snails and eggs ASAP or they'll become unmanageable in the blink of an eye. i've given up getting rid of them, it's never going to happen.

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u/mytherical 9d ago

okay, thank you very much

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u/mytherical 9d ago

what do their eggs look like so i can be sure??

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u/dandadone_with_life 9d ago

small clear jelly sacs with smaller clearish dots in them. the bigger and more opaque the dots are, the closer they are to hatching.

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u/mytherical 9d ago

do they have any negative effects on the tank or beta fish? since its a 5.5 gal idk

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u/dandadone_with_life 9d ago

nope. if anything, they improve the water quality by eating everything that's not poop; leftover food, melted plant leaves, general detritus, etc etc. and they're so small that any waste they produce is negligible and basically canceled out by anything they eat. they'll reproduce to fit the container, it's not like you'll have every surface covered in snails. i've got a ton because it's a 36 gallon but id be shocked if i had more than 200 in there. it just looks like a lot because they converge during feeding. i'm not sure how true it is, but i've heard people have success training their bettas to eat pest snails. you have to crush them against the glass or something and drop them from the top like regular food. eventually the betta will get the message and hunt them. that's the idea anyway.

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u/mytherical 9d ago

i see i see.. so in general, i dont really have a lot to worry? like im not gonna have like 1836283782 snails covering every wall because thats how people had me worried. like it’s a 5.5 gallon and the way people were describing it is like every surface would be covered. i’m home now and i see 3, 1 egg 😭

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u/Expensive_Ear3791 10d ago

I learned last night that snails like watermelon rind even more than cucumber. My rams and bladders went right past the cuke. You can't see the watermelon rind anymore, it's ridiculous.

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u/Happystrangler 10d ago

Bladder snail!! just don’t overfeed your tank and you should be fine

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u/mytherical 10d ago

thanks!! ive just got the little snail and my betta now, dont worry i will be setting up another tank just incase they don’t get along

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u/OinkyPoop 10d ago

By the time you figure it out you will have 20 more.

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u/Moon_Draw-s 9d ago

Shivers in bladdersnail hoards in my tank trauma

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u/mytherical 9d ago

gonna set up a tank just for them!

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u/Alternative_Silver73 9d ago

Bladder snail. They are good for your tank.

what snail hitch hiked into my tank? lol Help