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07-15-2008, 04:42 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA
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|  Omg My New Snail!!! Help!!!! Ok so i was building a little 1 g nano bowl fresh water and i put plants from my pond in it i didnt think anything about i washed them off and didnt see anything well i happen to look today i was gonna take it apart and there was snail on the side of my tank and i need help i have neevr had one and have no clue how to take care it so plz help! 
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07-15-2008, 04:48 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arizona
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| Wait, so you got a snail on plants that you took out of the pond? I recently got two snails on plants I bought from Petco.  I just put them in with the betta and they are living happily. I don't feed them anything. I'm just assuming they eat leftovers and algae...?
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07-15-2008, 04:53 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA
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| yeh on the plants from my pond i think im gonna try to find 2 or 3 more off plants in my pond they are only like the size of this"O" that
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07-15-2008, 04:59 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arizona
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| I'm not sure what my new snails are, but they are bigger than this --> O The ones in my 20g are ramshorn snails and I feed them to my dp. Do yours look like this? 
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07-15-2008, 05:07 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Texas
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| Yeah snails eat algae and vegetable matter, if they get hungry they may start to much on your plants. Snails can sometimes introduce parasites and as I have learned the only way to kill off parasites will kill off snails too. But yeah, they are pretty easy to take care of, they'll be fine.
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07-15-2008, 07:44 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Illinois
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| If they're from your pond, they are likely living off your plants. Most kinds of pond snails multiply REALLY fast, too. When I did pond tanks I remove them when I wanted to keep the environment controlled. Or crush them when they're still small. Or you can keep a carnivorous insect with them (Like giant water bugs. They are SO cool). But you seem like a snail lover, so you can throw in a big wad of floating algae and it'll keep the snails off your plants for the most part.
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07-15-2008, 09:13 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA
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| but see the thing i want to keep him and hes rlly small and hes in a tank of his own all alone ,, the plants i dont care about i got a whole pond full of plants 1.I want to keep him and learn how to take care so all helps welcome. 2.Will he crawl out of the bowl its a 1 g bowl with no screen or lid on the top?
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07-15-2008, 09:29 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Illinois
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| He will stay by the water. Sometimes snails come just out of the water, but no further. For my sister's birthday I forgot to get something, and she wanted a pet, so I put a snail in a corked 100ml jar with a plant. 
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07-15-2008, 10:37 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA
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| u knwo i think im gonna keep him but i hope he doesnt mutiply
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