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I read here some time back that 1 little snail can easily turn into many many snails. Wow!! I had (repeat had) close to 100 snails in my filter yesterday. Luckily I look at my media pretty closely whenever I replace it or I could have found quite a few more in the tank in a few weeks time. It was actually creepy because there were also jelly type things in the filter that looked like they were loaded with tiny eggs. LOL... I'm going to have to closer eye in the future. Usually I don't pay attention to the interior of the filter, just the media.

Gross! Just out of curiosity, what did you do with them?

Yep, if you get one prego snail into your tank...a couple weeks later it will be hundreds. I put my gold mystery snail in a holding tank for two weeks with my feeder fish, just to see if any more snails would appear, and once the coast was clear, it went into my big tank
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In my uncle's fish tank the snails were getting ready to cover it wall to wall so he put some snail killer in there and it killed the fish instead of the snails! You were only supposed to put a small ammount in and that's what he did when the fish died. So after that he basicly nuked the tank with the whole bottle. Lol.

I think the snails that Anddawede is referring to are asexual and reproduce all by themselves. Golden Mystery Snails don't do that.

>>Gross! Just out of curiosity, what did you do with them?

Umm... they became part of the ecosystem when I put them down the sink and let the water run until there was no way they could linger. The ones that were on my filter media ended up in the trash can. I'm not saving snails, they reproduce too quickly to be endangered.. LOL. I've got 1 turtle, 2 green cory catfish, and 2 pleco in my tank. They are my main concern. The snails are cute though