Post by finch on May 18, 2017 21:20:56 GMT
Hello everyone,
I was at a natural history museum that has a large pond on a trail, and I was looking around the bank of the pond with my friends. We spotted some little aquatic snails, and I put a trio in a jar to study at home. I have pond water, some tiny rocks, a stick and a leaf in the jar, and they seem to like it. They look almost exactly like these:
www.google.com/search?q=aquatic+snail+in+nc&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKl8mkq_rTAhUCNiYKHZLkA7AQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=638#imgrc=hBicjWvefMEOiM:
So I think if you can identify those, that will be what mine are.
They seem pretty happy, snailing around the jar. I think the smallest one may be a bit problematic though. It keeps trying to poke its head into the biggest snail's shell! The bigger guy just shakes his shell wildly and the little dude stops for a minute or two. The little one also rode on the big guy's shell for a while, which seemed to annoy "Big Guy" even more. I may end up taking "Little Dude" back to the pond if he's annoying Big Guy.
Looking at them now, I see distinct spotting on their shells, if that's of any significance.
Their shells are about the size of an uncooked pinto bean.
If anyone else has had success with wild-caught aquatic snails, please let me know what you fed them, how their habitat was set up, etc. Do I feed them fish food? I may be able to buy algae-based food if they end up needing that.
Okay, this is a very weird question, but what does their poop look like? They've been dropping things that look like a smaller version of normal snail poop, so...
Thank you so much!
-paracosmic
I was at a natural history museum that has a large pond on a trail, and I was looking around the bank of the pond with my friends. We spotted some little aquatic snails, and I put a trio in a jar to study at home. I have pond water, some tiny rocks, a stick and a leaf in the jar, and they seem to like it. They look almost exactly like these:
www.google.com/search?q=aquatic+snail+in+nc&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKl8mkq_rTAhUCNiYKHZLkA7AQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=638#imgrc=hBicjWvefMEOiM:
So I think if you can identify those, that will be what mine are.
They seem pretty happy, snailing around the jar. I think the smallest one may be a bit problematic though. It keeps trying to poke its head into the biggest snail's shell! The bigger guy just shakes his shell wildly and the little dude stops for a minute or two. The little one also rode on the big guy's shell for a while, which seemed to annoy "Big Guy" even more. I may end up taking "Little Dude" back to the pond if he's annoying Big Guy.
Looking at them now, I see distinct spotting on their shells, if that's of any significance.
Their shells are about the size of an uncooked pinto bean.
If anyone else has had success with wild-caught aquatic snails, please let me know what you fed them, how their habitat was set up, etc. Do I feed them fish food? I may be able to buy algae-based food if they end up needing that.
Okay, this is a very weird question, but what does their poop look like? They've been dropping things that look like a smaller version of normal snail poop, so...
Thank you so much!
-paracosmic
