#planorbella duryi

[risky-mantis]

Baby snails!

Just a few days after being put in their new tank, our ramshorn snails started sticking eggs to.. well, pretty much any available surface. We first noticed them on the glass but quickly also discovered some on the leaves of the stem plants. And even on some grass blades...

We had to leave the snails alone for a week (a neighbor came by every other day to check if everything was fine) and when we returned, noticeable white dots had developed within the eggs.

Not even a full day later, those white dots started to break out off their gelatinous home - they aren't quite recognizable as snails to the naked eye yet but they're starting to explore the tank and wandering around the glass walls and on the plants, just like the adults do.

We also found out that we got two (possibly more?) bladder snails into the tank with some of the plants, a pretty common occurence (unless you get in-vitro plants only). They must've been tiny when we got them but they've since grown into actually recognizable (albeit still tiny) snails. While they are often regarded as pests for their plentiful reproduction and hardiness that led them to become invasive in huge parts of the world, we actually enjoy some of them. We'll just have to keep an eye on their numbers so they don't overrun the tank and make sure to destroy not accidentally release any more of them into nature.

[emuwarum]

for everyone who likes the snail:

Here's a bunch of photos of planorbella duryi (related species (third photo might actually be a different species))

also look at planorbella scalaris they're really funny looking

Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.

Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.

[sadiie]

love-all-lives replied to your photoset “Dallas Stars tank update. March 2017”

Oh my, this is amazing! What plants and fish do you have in here?

thank you :)

plants: Lomariopsis lineata Bolbitis heudelotii various Bucephalandras Microsorum pteropus Vesicularia ferriei "Weeping Moss" Fissidens fontanus Ceratophyllum demersum + Spathiphyllum in a DIY riparium planter

inhabitans: Neocaridina denticulata Physella acuta  Planorbella duryi

[risky-mantis]

We set up our very first aquarium some days ago! It's a small-ish tank (40x25x25 cm, 25l or ~6.5 gallons). Currently, it' has's equipped a 10W LED lamp and a small 3W hang-on-back filter. For substrate, we put down a base layer of lava gravel in the more elevated areas (wrapped in mesh bags) with a generous layer of shrimp soil on top. Lots of quick growing plants to support water quality - I'll go into more detail regarding both this tank's plant choices as well as our general goals in seperate posts! As of right now, the tank is inhabited by six pink ramshorn snails (Planorbella duryi). We eventually want to add shrimps (Neocaridina davidi) but right now, the snails run the show as we wait for everything to grow in a little more. We want to take this slow and steady ;)

[emuwarum]

that is a planorbid, though it is not the species you usually see in aquariums (planorbella duryi). Yeah it's a ramshorn

Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.

Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.