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Re: tiny black pointed snails...
In a message dated 4/26/00 12:11:55 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com writes:
> While buying my plants, the person at the LFS showed me some tiny, black,
> pointed snails, they sort of look like teensy ice cream cones, maybe 1/3
> inch long and 3/16 inch wide at the widest end? They are sort of hard to
> describe. He told me that his planted tank (which I have admired many
> times in the store) is full of these things under the gravel, and that when
> the lights go out, the snails come out of hiding. He feels they are good
> for aerating the substrate and cleaning up under there.
>
> Does anyone know, from my rather limited description, what I am talking
> about? He gave me 3 of these critters to take home, and I don't know
> whether to put them into the tank or not. Are these things good?
Everyone had their own opinion of these Malaysian Trumpet Snails. Mine is
that they are a blight on the earth. They overpopulate, nothing will eat
them. They are resistant to snail-killing chemicals,and they don't stay
hidden during the day. Okay, well some of them do. A lot of them cover the
tank walls and other stuff once the population gets out of control.
Bob Dixon