i went to lfs and bought some anarcharis and quarantine them in a little bucket for a couple of days (you know to be sure no ich or illness or anything). when i check on them, i saw some tiniest baby snails crawling out have no clue how to care for them, i have two goldfish tanks, should i put them in there, i heard snails can be a big pest. right now, they're in that bucket with nothing but some algea covered rocks. i even sprinkle some sinking goldfish food in. they're not eating it but are producing a lot of waste. what now

I put my plants in a quarantine tank with a solution specific to kill snails- after a few days I take the plants out - wash them down - and plant in tank- once I had some black snails- but be aware so do goldfish - the taste I mean- when They would crawl up the glass he would suck them up and chew away with a pleased look on his face- and how much do we pay, at a resturant - for the same delicacy- he has expensive taste lol

Eric

I would disinfect the plants to get rid of the snails. They are most likely pest snails and they will reproduce like mad, nibble your plants, and might even clog your filter. Not all goldfish eat them and they are hard to get rid of once they are in your tank. Take a look at the pinned thread in the plant section on how to disinfect plants. Potassium Permanganate is the best chemical if you can get it.

I agree that they are probably "pest" snails, having more than one of them can be a problem.

I bought a plant a while back and it had one of these snails on it, the plant ended up dying, but I still have the snail. I couldn't make myself kill it.

Your snails are most likely from a hermaphroditic species, so unless you want to be overrun with them, separate them into separate containers.

You don't have to kill your snails, but I would not let them be near each other unless you want to remove the eggs every two days for the extent of their life span.

Hermie (my snail) lives in a glass bowl that contains about 24 ounces of water (he is only 3mm in size).

The bowl has a little bit of gravel in the bottom of it. For the first month, the snail laid eggs almost every day in small clutches around the bowl, usually at the water line. They were a clear gel mass, with white specs inside. Just remove the eggs every other day when you change the water out of the bowl and they will not hatch.

When you change the water out of the bowl, rinse everything really good with hot water, then with room temperature water to bring it back to the same temp as the water you are putting in.

Also you would want PH and temp matched, dechlorinated water for your snail bowls, just like you would your fish tank. The best way that I have found to do this, is to actually use water out of my fish tank.

Every two days I scoop 24 ounces of water out of the fish tank and into a pitcher, scrape a little cuttlebone into the water (the snail guys told me to do that, Hermie seemed happier when I did, so I am keeping doing it), and then take Hermie out of his bowl, put him into the pitcher, and take his bowl into the kitchen to wash it all out with hot water. Then I pour the water from the pitcher into the bowl, pick Hermie back up and place him into the bowl, drop in a small amount of food (I feed him fresh veggies and fish food), and stick him back on my shelf until the next time it is ready to clean the bowl.

Now that I'm pretty sure my snail is done laying eggs, I'm going to put him in a 1.5 gallon plastic tank and a sponge filter. All by himself he should not be able to reproduce according to my research, and he seems to have exhausted the supply of "seed" that he had from the other snails at the pet store. This way I can deal with having to change his water when I change fishy water, rather than every other day!

Honestly if you're up for another pet, I would highly recommend keeping your mini snails, just make sure you don't keep them together. If you do decide to keep them together, every other day, check every inch of the side of your container for clear egg clutches and scrape them off really well.

i put one of the snailies into my fish tank and my koi, monark, just ate it right up, then spit it out like it's not good enough for her. yeahs,she is spoiled sometimes

well that snail is dead and tehre's only 3 more alive and i just left them out side , mother nature will do whatever she wants to with them, but i know my fish don't want them