The snail in the two photos here is 6 mm long, but I have bigger ones of the same kind. In the photo to the left you can see it from the side and in the photo to the right you can see the same snail from behind. This is the kind of snail that easily can invade an aquarium, if you let them - just feed the fish too much and you can really get a lot of them. :-)
They will grow up to 16 mm in length, and eat algae. They can live in temperatures between 0 degrees Celsius and 25 degrees Celsius.
This species do not live wild in Sweden, but several close relatives do.
This is another kind of snail, it looks totally different. The snail in the photo to the left is 4,5 mm long and flat. This one came with the Microsorium plants, and I only have a few of them. This snail moves with the "house" laying on its side, like a hoover craft. I've seen many other species of flat snails that resembles this species, but they all move with the "house" upright like a wheel.
I don't know what species this is, but I will hopefully find out sooner or later. I am pretty sure that it belongs to the family Planorbidae.
This is a Ramshorn snail, a well known and not unpopular species of aquarium snail, in Swedish it is called "Posthorssnäcka". I know that this is a relative to the unknown species above, since I know that this one also belongs to the family Planorbidae.
This species do live wild in Sweden. But you should never catch wild snails and put into your tropical aquarium, they can transmit diseases to your tropical fish.
This is one of the snails that most people wants... unless they want the bigger Apple Snail types.
This species come in several different colours, I have blue and ordinary brown ones myself, and I have been told that you can buy pink ones and whites ones too. I don't keep them for their colours, though, but for their help in keeping my aquaria in good shape !
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Last update: 27th of May 2007.