#red ramshorn snail

[haikuckuck]

Red ramshorn snail overgrown with algae on glass of nano cube

[mod2amaryllis]

Jim has been very busy in her new tank!!

[photozoi]

Ramshorn snails

[geraskier]

read all about it! very shy snail hides all day, contemplates and declines to take outdoor expedition next day

[image description: a white mystery snail with a brown striped shell in a pineapple house aquarium decoration. in the first image, the snail hangs upside down in the doorway with its long antennae curled up by its eyestalks. in the second, the snail has moved further into the decoration. in the third image, one of the snail's antenna is sticking out of an upper window of the house.]

[rassicas]

I wanted to clarify about the inkfish's blood color? I was told there is a bit in the latest art book confirming they have red blood but i am yet to see a source so i wanted to ask

Gear acquired by our researchers Red Hammertreads Anakki has caught on to the latest trends, and has presented a collection of "looting"-themed footwear. The message of "Take what you want by force!" resonated with the boom of rough and rugged Splatlandian fashion, creating some die-hard fans. The motif of the collection is a gangster octopus, which has turned deep red due to the blood that's risen to its head.** This deep crimson color is symbolic of the collection.

**頭に血が上る means to be agitated or excited, but literally something like "blood to rise to one's head". with all the mentions of dark red, this word choice connecting it to blood was deliberate so i left it in.

Turning red due to agitation in this case might be implying its like a deimatic display rather than literal blood, but regardless that is still a connection of red blood and octopuses.

regardless of if you want to take this as solid proof of inklings/octolings having red blood, there are some other things that hint at them having red blood. like this art showing some inklings with ears and noses tinted red from the cold:

or this concept art for an inkling anatomical model, with the insides tinted red

There's also how the inside of the mouths of the squid sisters is a fleshy pink/red color rather than a color connected to their ink color, but theres some weirdness with how consistent mouth colors are If you're thinking, "but wouldnt it make more sense for them to have blue blood because they're cephalopods?" this is what i thought too. While blue blood is fine for sea dwelling cephalopods to have blue blood, it's inefficient for carrying oxygen for land dwelling creatures. Inklings and octolings took on many adaptations to make them more suited for land, so why not their blood? If the concept of a mollusc evolving from having blue to red blood sounds farfetched, this exact thing has happened to ramshorn snails!

Other option is they literally have ink blood which *shrug* idk they are creatures of Flesh and Organs so Im inclined to believe they have actual blood that, like the organs, we don't see because Family Friendly Game . I mean, we know for sure salmonids have actual flesh and blood (you can literally buy their meat in mako mart) but in game they just kind of explode like ink bags. anyway in short: not explicitly confirmed what kind of blood inklings and octolings have but with the S3 artbook and these few other examples i think red blood is a real possibility.

[cyanocoraxx]

[image description: three images showing the same male betta fish in his aquarium. he is a silver or grey colour with a yellow tint. the first image shows the betta fish swimming towards sinking bloodworms. it is falling amongst the plants behind him as well. the second image shows him close to the bottom of the aquarium and he is facing left. the third image shows him close to a pile of bloodworms, which he is investigating. there is a strong red tint to this image due to the lighting of the aquarium. a red nerite snail is also visible beneath the bloodworms. a very small golden ramshorn snail is visible on the glass above the betta fish's back. end ID.]

the handsomest boy is having his breakfast !!!! & finally some good pics of his colouration

[sardinemasc]

feeding time this morning : ) did a 30% water change yesterday and took out a lot of water lettuce because the tank was getting really dark, now i can really see how red these little guys are getting!!! such stunning fish!!!! they seem to really react well to small and frequent water changes (i've been doing 20-30% every other week)

12x chili rasboras in my 10 gallon tank, which also contains a handful of ramshorn snails : ] 🐟❤️🌱

[ID:

Six photos and one video of my chili rasboras being fed. They are surrounded my green aquatic plants. The fish range from red, orange, and pink and have black markings. ]

[fishhag]

Have you ever wondered what planaria look like?

Planaria are a common freshwater aquarium pest and mine came into my tank hiding in some plants from a new LFS. They don’t pose much of a risk to fish but they will eat shrimp, fish eggs, and—surprisingly— snail eggs. They’ve been keeping my red ramshorn snail population under control, but they’re also taking their toll on my zebra shrimp.

Luckily, they’re pretty easy to get rid of. Believe it or not, I used a dog dewormer called Panacur to treat my tank. Panacur contains fenbendazole, which is fish and shrimp-safe but will kill these guys! My Indian zebra shrimp population has already doubled since treating the tank about 3 weeks ago.

[thenarrativefoil]

fish tank update!

All the anubis and amazon swords died back when I replanted them about a month ago. Not knowing if they would pull through, I got some new plants (pearl weed, ludwigia, parrot feather, carolina bacopa[sp?], and some red lily bulbs) and the lilies (red leaves in second pic) have really taken off!

I added some vallisnaria in from the planted bowl, and the anubis and swords have started to grow back. The cherry barbs really like hanging out under the lilies which makes me very happy. I also noticed some snails, which must have snuck in on the plants I bought from a local fish keeper.

Several years ago, all the ramshorn snails my tank was overrun with mysteriously died, I assumed it was colony collapse but I haven't been able to keep any alive since so I started thinking it was flat head worms getting to them (since I switched over to using dirt + sand substrate). I'll see if they hang around.

Next goal is to get a colony of shrimp going for algae clean up. I'm a bit nervous the barbs will go after them, so I'm going to try changing their feeding schedule to smaller portions twice a day.

After that, a small school of corydora catfish.

AND THEN maybe a small group of mid-tank swimmers, as yet undetermined.

After futzing with the new fluval light, I've lined it up with the natural light cycle and I'm looking forward to adjusting it periodically. It'll be a fun way to pay more attention to the seasons.

sometime in the far future I hope to get a thermometer with an app/timer so I can also adjust the water temperature throughout the day. for now I'll just get my arm wet once in a while with the seasons.

[a-deed-without-a-name]

can you tell us about your aquarium

This is the best ask I have ever received. I hope you know the gates of Heaven have opened for you and only you, Anon.

Short answer: this is it.

Long answer under the cut. Very long, 'cause it's my birthday weekend and my gift to myself is I'm gonna gush about my stupid tank.

This is the smallest tank I've had in years - a 3.6 gallon Fluval. It absolutely counts as a nano tank, which has been both a challenge and a relief.

(My last tank - which I had to get rid of years ago, the last time I moved - was a 40-gallon that mainly featured very dumb dojo loaches and destructively horny oranda goldfish. I miss them every single day but when I surrendered them to my local fish store, the 90-year-old proprietor told me very approvingly that it's very rare for orandas to breed and dojo loaches usually don't get as big as mine did, so that helped soothe the sting a little.)

This one's technically a betta tank, but I'm still split on if I'm ever gonna put a betta in it. The literature on how much room is humane is split and it's really the luck of the draw if your fish will tolerate the inverts or harass them to death.

For now, it's just neocaridina shrimp (mostly red rilis, although a lovely orange lad and a blue juvenile snuck in there and I'm looking to get a few more color morphs), bladder snails, a ramshorn named Guts, and plants. I did not actually buy any of the snails, which is a quintessential aquarium-owner experience.

I've been working on this tank for a few months now. It's my first heavily-planted one, and it went through a few stages.

First off: I fell for a carpet seed scam.

Yeah. I know. I should've done more research. On the plus side, I got very, very lucky and wound up with something that can actually grow immersed (some kind of hygrophila, I'm 99% sure). For now, at least, it's eating all my ammonia, so yay, and I'm watching it and my water parameters like a hawk to make sure I can go full teardown at the first sign of melting.

(If I were smart and hard-working, I'd've taken everything out and redone it all soon as I figured out what a colossal fuck-up I'd committed, but I am me, so we're waiting, watching, and taking baby steps towards un-FUBARing the tank.)

But the java moss and tiger lotus, at least, are real plants, and they're doing great.

Had a few issues with the neos, but they've stabilized.

And I just recently rescaped the entire tank! Including adding in some more plant variety and tearing out ~60% of the hygrophila (yes, I disposed of it safely, I'm not going to be the reason that shit winds up in the Colorado River).

The goal is eventually to remove all of it, but for now, what's left can stay; the animals like it and I don't want to stress them out anymore.

They seem to be doing great since the rescape; much more active now that the tank has some different environments for them to explore. They love their cobblestone path.

I've got a good male/female ratio on the neos, lots of wee baby bugs swimming around, and my girls keep getting knocked up!

Harlot.

(Ignore the tweezers. Long story. And the discoloration on the hygrophila; after rigorous water testing and pinching and poking the leaves a whole bunch, seems like its ugly ass just Looks Like That. So glad my dad bought those stupid seeds.)

And that's my aquarium. I've got a little bit of duckweed in there that's not growing as fast as I'd like, and my tiger lotus does not seem inclined to make lilypads any time soon, so I'm planning on getting some water spangles for aesthetics and also shrimp thrills.

I might post some more photos once the spangles are here and I've picked up a few more shrimp colors from my LFS - I don't want everyone to be brown in a few generations, but. Some more diversity would be cool, I think.

[emuwarum]

what do aquatic snails eat. how do they breed. do they form friendships

:D

It varies between species, they may have a preference, but generally they eat algae, dead plants, dead fish (or other dead animals), detritus, blanched veggies, floating plants (very tasty), biofilm and some other things. Some species will eat hydra, a freshwater relative of coral that is considered a pest because it kills fish fry. Assassin snails are predatory and will ambush other snails. They do eat the same things probably but need more protein.

snail reproduction is actually my favourite topic. Because there are So Many different ways they do it.

Bladder, ramshorn, pond, and their relatives are all simultaneous hermaphrodites. This means that they have both sets of reproductive organs, and can use both of them at once. Bladder snails (and none of the other species) are capable of self-fertilisation. This means that if you took a hatched 10 seconds ago bladder snail, kept them in a jar alone, once they reached sexual maturity they would produce little clones of themselves. Some populations actually have a preference for asexual/sexual reproduction, some may reproduce asexually even with partners available and some will only reproduce asexually in the most dire situations.

Then there are apple, nerite, trapdoor, trumpet, rabbit, and assassin snails (and more). These guys are gonochoric, so they're either male or female for reproduction. It's really only apple snails that are easy to sex, as far as I know. With the others you can't just take a look and tell.

Trumpet, rabbit and trapdoor snails are livebearers! The females hold the eggs inside right until they hatch. Rabbit snails give birth to a large egg sack containing a single baby, who will emerge from it very quickly. I suppose it's like that so they don't get cut by the babies shell on the way out?

Apple snails lay a large egg cluster out of water containing anywhere from 50-200 babies. Some species eggs are toxic as well, and have a bright red colour. Nerite snails lay an egg pod the size of a sesame seed. This contains about 150 embryos. When the right conditions are provided (and these are different for the 300 species of nerite), most species will have a bunch of veligers emerge. These are little free floating larvae without shells, they feed on algae in the water and are extremely delicate. No species of nerite has been successfully raised to sexual maturity in captivity.

The veligers need something specific to grow shells and it hasn't been figured out yet. They're still trying to find it in research labs (and I do talk to someone who works in those! She's cool. I think she would be a big hit on tumblr)

There is one species of nerite in Europe, that sort of skips the veliger stage. They eat each other inside of the egg, and the surviving baby has already grown a shell once it's hatched. They're still difficult to hatch though, and the ones that they did hatch didn't survive to sexual maturity.

So every single nerite snail in the hobby, at every store, was caught in the wild. Also they can change their growth rates, so two snails at vastly different sizes could be the same age.

More trumpet snails. They reproduce using parthenogenesis! All the offspring born from that are female, so you can have an all female colony of trumpets. Males do still exist though, even if you can't tell which is which.

Snails do communicate with each other, and they can have personalities. So I guess they have friends? Sorta. I think I heard something about nerite snails choosing the same partners? Don't completely remember it.

I had a pond snail who specifically did not like to be picked off the glass (very gently) and would make foam and stress slime when it happened. But if he was floating on the surface tension he was completely fine with it. Then my current largest pond snail

This dude

Is completely chill with being picked up off the glass. He climbs on my hand and refuses to get off. I also actually have two species of pond snail, as you can see in the second photo :). So far haven't managed to breed the white/gold ones at all, but I have had plenty of the other type before. They seem to take a lot longer to mature than other hitchhiker type snails.

I'm tired so let's end this with a Lemon photo. He's probably scientifically valuable

[photozoi]

Nerite snail (Zebra)

Red Racer Nerite

Guess which one is named "Chip"?

Red Ramshorn snail

Adolfoi cory on the "Snail Throne" (Bladder and Ramshorn pest snails)

And, the Snail Bridge... (Bladder snail and Horned Nerite)

This has been an All Snail Post

[kirstielol]

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 i ordered my crabs!!! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

i got two male and four female "red ruby" vampire crabs. i was going to wait a few weeks longer still, but i contacted the shop about their shipping, and they said they stop shipping out animals once temps go below zero overnight, which around here can happen anytime now really.. so i wanted to get them before that

i also got a couple snails (1 blue ramshorn & 1 mini golden rabbit snail), and two vibrant blue dwarf shrimp.. although the crabs miiiiight eat the shrimp :/ so we'll have to see how that goes lol

[thecoffeelovingcat]

question about ramshorn snails again? Do you know how exactly the things causing their colours work, because as far as I can figure out there’s the brown pigment, and if they don’t have that they’ll be albino/orange, and there’s another pigment which makes them pink, but I’m not sure how the blue works with that or other colours

The pink/red ramshorn snails are their albino variations.

Most snails use hemocyanin in their blood that makes their blood green. Ramshorn snails however, use hemoglobin in their blood, which makes it red.

The pink you see isn’t a pigment, it’s their blood. The snail is translucent.

When they get attacked by assassin snails or anything, they bleed red blood like a person.

Here is one of my pinks, you can see at this angle the shell and body are actually a whiteish clear.

[wetmek]

Nature Aquarium Nº3: Skill Issue

DATA Aquarium: ADA 60p (60x30x36cm) Lighting: SBReef Freshwater (6 hours per day; 100%A, 50%B) Filtration: Eheim 2215 Material: Eucalypts root, Seiryu stone Substrate: Tropica Aquarium Soil; SLAqua Magic Powder, Millione Bacteria; Caribe Sea Super Naturals Sunset Gold sand CO2: Quanvee Inline Diffusor, (6hours per day; set till drop checker turns slight yellow) Additives: NilocG Thrive + (3ml, 3x a week) Water change: 50% once a week Water quality: Temperature 22°C, pH: 6.2, TDS: 121ppm Plants Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Mi Oya" Eriocaulon sp. 'Hainan Island" Helantium tenellum Hygrophila difformis 'vareigated' Hygrophilla polysperma Lilaeopsis brasiliensis Limnophila hippuridoides Limnophila sessilflora 'Ambulia" Ludwigia paulustris 'super red' Microsorum (Leptochilus) pteropus 'trident' Pogostemon erectus Rotala ‘Nanjeanshan’ Fish and Invertebrates Tanichthys albonubes Trichopsis pumila Mini Ramshorn snail

[kedreeva]

I cleaned the 55g out and rearranged things a lot. It's only got a couple of snails and a bristlenose pleco left in it currently, but I'm going to be bringing in the pond plants, rosies, and whatever ramshorn snails I can rescue before winter. I've already found a few blue-shell ramshorns, which I was ecstatic about- I only had one left when I moved them into the pond, the reds had taken over in the 30g. Hoping the blues will continue to breed well in the 55g, hoping I find a bunch more.