Hi all!!
I have been told that these are good for a pond and clean the water by eating debris etc!!
I am interested in getting some!!
Does anyone know the best place to purchase/cost/anything else I should know about water snails!!
Nobbs XX
Nobbs, if you look at the thread, help with plants, Jesseve has posted a link to an aquatic place, I see they sell snails! DP
Mine just seemed to appear. I think maybe their eggs came in on plants?
Wow!!
Dawn send us some eggs in the post!!
Nobbs xx
Will have a look as to what they're up to!
A word of warning about snails...
A friend gave me spare weed to help keep my pond water healthy. The generous soul also included some pointy-shelled snails, which ate debris and growing plants alike! :'(
It took me a while to remove them all, leaving the dark, disc-shaped snails that don't appear to do any harm at all to genuinely healthy growth. The pond plants recovered eventually. Sorry I can't give you the biological names of the offending snails - just be careful! :)
Hi Sedum!
Thanx for the advice -I've done some reading - apparently ramshorn snails only eat dead matter the great pond snail eats live plants - i think thats right!
Can anyone confirm this?
Nobbs xx
Yep - ram's horn ones are the disc-shelled ones I described, they look just like curly horns now I come to think of it!