Trumpet Snail Outbreak

Like tribbles theyre seemingly born pregnant and begin reproducing very quickly.

Trumpet ruffle skirt. Trumpet snail outbreaks are usually an indication that the aquarium needs to be cleaned more regularly. It seems like an easy way to deal with the issue and you get to stock some cool new fish. If you have a pest snail outbreak in your freshwater aquarium you may be considering adding some fish that eat snails to your tank.

Theyll chomp up the offending invaders and your aquarium can go back to normal you reason. Good snails like mystery inca nerite assassin and rabbit snails make attractive and interesting aquarium pets. All except nerite snails can reproduce in your aquarium but usually at a very slow rate.

This small snail is shaped like a cone or yknow. Dont know where they came from probably along with the water when i bought new fish. The red rimmed melania or trumpet snail melanoides tuberculatus is a hardy and common species of snail from southeast asia found in thousands of aquaria probably numbering in the millions.

The malaysian trumpet snail is one of the most popular species for the freshwater aquarium because they tend to burrow into the substrate and clean out accumulated detritus. A trumpet and can rapidly reproduce with a single female giving birth to hundreds of miniature snails. Trumpet snails can reproduce in the home aquarium and interestingly.

Trumpet snail trumpet snails have elongated conical shells with an average of 10 to 15 whorls.