Pond Snails

Product Description

Pickup from Greenhouses Only

WE DO NOT SHIP SNAILS

Pond Snails

Pond snails are scavengers that consume algae and clean up plant debris in the pond.  They are small to large-sized, air-breathing, freshwater snails.

Melantho Snail


Varieties

There are a number of varieties that are suitable for the pond: Trapdoor, Melantho, Ramshorn, and Wandering Pond Snail.

Features

  • Melantho, Ramshorn, and Wandering Pond snails (Ampullaceana balthica) leave trails of eggs on plants. They are Hermaphroditic, meaning that two organisms of any sex have the ability to breed and produce offspring.
  • Trapdoor snails bear live young.  They are non-hermaphroditic, meaning that each trapdoor snail is either a male or a female.  Trapdoor snails are large and round and grow to golf ball size.** (see further information below).  They are members of the Viviparis malleatus family.
  • Melantho snails are cone-shaped and grow to about 1” in length.  They are members of the Lymnaea family, as are the Wandering Pond snails.
  • Ramshorn snails are flat and curled around (like a coil or ram’s horn) and grow to a diameter of 1”.  They are either members of the Planorbella duryi and Planorbarius corneus families.
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Please note that by law (CFIA), it is illegal to buy, trade or sell Trapdoor snails in Canada.

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