Snail Photos

A thread to show off your snails pics 

Here are most of my nerites. I couldn't see one of them anywhere, it'll be hiding on a piece of wood.

Using my numbering system from my Whitespot thread here are

#1. Grey with lighter grey spots. I have 2 of these, this is the one in the betta's tank. They are both 1 cm across the longest axis of their oval bodies, bought December 2014. The one in the 180 litre likes crawling along the glass just below the top of the sand so it is very difficult to photograph.

#2. Orange red with black markings. This snail is slightly bigger at about 1.25 cm. Also bought December 2014.

#4. Zebra nerite. This is the largest of the nerites at 2 cm. Bought July 2011. Yes, I do mean 2011. This is the snail that survived out of water for..... I'm not actually sure how long.

#5. Larger orange red with black markings. This is the second biggest snail at a tad under 2 cm. Also bought in July 2011. This is the snail I couldn't find when I needed to treat the tank for whitespot so it survived almost a day with the medication in the tank

#6. Bee nerite. This is a small snail at just 1 cm. Bought December 2013.

#3 is the one I can't find at the moment.



The white spots on the wood in a couple of photos are nerite eggs. These are the only downside to nerites. They don't hatch and stay on the decor for ever.

Great pics and funny you should start this thread as I just took a pic of my seldom seen Black Devil Snail cleaning detritus from my Java moss.

One of my apple snails.

I bought 3 and lost sight of one for a while. I knew the other 2 had gotten quite large but how no idea how large until I found the empty shell of the missing snail. They were 1cm across when I got them now they're almost 2 inches cross at their widest. Lovely looking snails but as I really don't want babies, one is going to a new home very soon.

The apple snails are 2 inches across 
I didn't expect then to be that large.
Wow. 

Good lord 
At that size you'd only want one in the tank. 

They're like 2 little mini satsumas bowling round the tank,

That has got to be one of the funniest descriptions of aquatic snails I've witnessed. 

I get that view as well 

I had only just put the snails back in the 180 litre when I took the photos, and was lucky that 2 of them were grazing on the flat stone next to where I'd put them in, and two others had moved onto wood at the front of the tank. I've still not found the one missing from the photos and if I do see it, it will no doubt be on the glass like yours 


But I find the underside view to be fascinating, watching the way the snail eats and moves across the glass.

You won't believe I'd just cleaned the tank from the state of the bottom   

I know how you feel    just spent 4 hours cleaning mine and the sand already looks dirty 

A very pretty snail Sue.

It was a lot smaller when I got it and I thought it was plain black till I looked with a magnifying glass. As it's grown the markings have become more obvious. It looks much nicer now than plain black 

Really liking the snail pics. I am delighted to be able to add some of my own!!

In an act of wonderful kindness and generosity, Fiona O'Mahoney sent me ten Malaysian Trumpet snails to add to my community tank. I will update my progress thread after this post but I wanted to show off how the snails are settling in. Although I can only ever manage to spot around 5 at a time I presume all is well with them. They pretty much all burrowed away into the substrate on first introduction...

So here's a few snaps of them settling in...

...On a piece of bogwood with a female cherry barb photobomb


...Same snail but with a neon photobomb... My fish ain't shy!


...One of the smaller ones making it's way along the floor


...I'm actually really pleased with this photo, for obvious reasons!!! I'll just leave this here and look forward to the comments