Godzilla in my tank

[~Vicki ~]

This past Saturday my husband bought an apple snail for the 55g tank.
Having read up a little on them I said it would be ok in my planted
tank. Boy was I wrong about this one...lol Seems this one was the
variety which loves plants. My mistake but in two days time it
completely ate half of my plants. All my dwarf Sagittaria.....GONE, my
Ceratopteris....GONE, and if I had not caught it today my Amazon sword
plants would have been gone too. Caught it with one of the leaves of my
sword in its mouth. Well I am happy to announce that he is happily back
at the LFS and I bought some new plants to replace the ones he ate.

Moral of the story is RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH before adding a snail
to your planted tank. LOL

Vicki

[Dan J.S.]

"~Vicki ~" > wrote in message
...
> This past Saturday my husband bought an apple snail for the 55g tank.
> Having read up a little on them I said it would be ok in my planted
> tank. Boy was I wrong about this one...lol Seems this one was the
> variety which loves plants. My mistake but in two days time it
> completely ate half of my plants. All my dwarf Sagittaria.....GONE, my
> Ceratopteris....GONE, and if I had not caught it today my Amazon sword
> plants would have been gone too. Caught it with one of the leaves of my
> sword in its mouth. Well I am happy to announce that he is happily back
> at the LFS and I bought some new plants to replace the ones he ate.
>
> Moral of the story is RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH before adding a snail
> to your planted tank. LOL
>
> Vicki
>

I wonder if they go after java fern?

[Eric Schreiber]

"Dan J.S." > wrote:

>I wonder if they go after java fern?

Sounds like she had Pomacea canaliculata. From what I've seen of how
mine behave, they'd go after java fern, then hanging house plants,
then the vegetable garden, front lawn, and nearby garden centers if
left unchecked. They're voracious plant eaters.

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[Eric Schreiber]

Robyn Rhudy > wrote:

>Anyway, my "mystery snail" that you can see at
>http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy1/snail2.htm#mystery

Robyn, your page looks like an excellent resource. I've bookmarked it.

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[~Vicki ~]

Robyn does have a great site. I had it saved and never even knew she
was a poster here. Guess I should have read it a little more carefully
before I let hubby buy a snail...LOL. I think if I set up a non live
plant tank I will buy one again. Neil (my hubby) really liked it and
even gave it a name, "Garry" after Sponge Bob Square Pants pet snail.

Vicki

[coelacanth]

I agree! I used http://www.applesnail.net/ to determine
what a Pomacea bridgesii looked like. I've had three
in my tank for a year now and they've yet to even crawl
over a leaf of my plants.

-coelacanth

"~Vicki ~" > wrote in message
...
> This past Saturday my husband bought an apple snail for the 55g tank.
> Having read up a little on them I said it would be ok in my planted
> tank. Boy was I wrong about this one...lol Seems this one was the
> variety which loves plants. My mistake but in two days time it
> completely ate half of my plants. All my dwarf Sagittaria.....GONE, my
> Ceratopteris....GONE, and if I had not caught it today my Amazon sword
> plants would have been gone too. Caught it with one of the leaves of my
> sword in its mouth. Well I am happy to announce that he is happily back
> at the LFS and I bought some new plants to replace the ones he ate.
>
> Moral of the story is RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH before adding a snail
> to your planted tank. LOL
>
> Vicki
>