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To: Aquatic-Plants <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
From: Bill Edwards <bill.edwards at asu_edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:18:33 -0700 (MST)

From: williaro at ftmcphsn-emh1_army.mil (Williams, Rochelle - DCSPIM)
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 13:05:01 -0500
Subject: Japanese Trap Door Snail

:In an attempt to control algae, I recently purchased a snail for my Discus 
:community tank, pH ~6.8, Temp 84F.  The fish store said it was not an Apple 
:nor Ram snail, but believed it was a Japanese Trap Door snail.  It has a 
:slightly cone shaped dark shell (nothing like a Maylasian snail but slightly 
:protrudes on one side of the spiral) with slightly darker multiple stripes 
:that follow the spiral of the shell.  According to the Krib Web Page, 
:Mystery (Apple) snails were the best algae eaters of the ones they
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:mentioned.  The Ram snail being a voracious plant eater and not to get that 
:one.  Does anyone have experience with the Japanese Trap Door snail?

Apple snails (at least the one I had) will eat plants with gusto!
Mine was between a golf ball and tennis ball in size. What an
appetite!!! Needless to say, I took him/her/it back.

Bill Edwards 
Survey Research Lab 
Arizona State University