I have a tiny flat-backed snail that came with some plants and is in most of my tanks now. These guys don't eat plants, either, but seem to just graze on the algae. Their populations vary from a lot in newer tanks to just a few in the older ones, so I don't bother to pick them off, as their numbers adjust over time. I've never seen them on the eggs, which is one of the objections some people have to snails in the tanks. One of them strayed into a bromeliad cup with an imitator tadpole in it and the tad ripped it right out of the shell and ate it. So in some cases with cannibalistic type tads, the little snails may even become a food source.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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