Snails?

Hey Everyone,
The other day i turned the lights at 1am just to check on something and i saw a bunch of small white snails, does anyone know what these are, where they came from and if they are bad, if they are bad how do I get rid of them safetly.
I dont have a pic because it was to hard to see in the photo. they are smaller than a BB
Thanks

 

Nearly impossible to get a positive ID w/o pics.

 

Google pryamid snails.Hopefully these are notthe ones.

 

First I would look towards Collonista and next if they look like a grain of rice, yes the dreaded Pyramid snails.

 

they are not the pyramid snails. they look like small white turbo snails.

 

Deffinetely not pyramid snails, I'm leaning toward the collinista snails. they are all white. are they harmful?

 

Collonista then. Very similar and related to turbos, nocturnal, harmless.

 

Thats a relief, if its not one thing its another and I just got rid of one problem. He was little (2 1/2") yellow and was a pita damsel. now that he's gone I hope for smooth sailing.

 

There are several little white species in the Collonista subfamily, and all are good guys. In fact, just about anything that looks like a Turbo is a good guy, unless you think Heliacus species (sundials) look like Turbos. There are also a lot of little rissoids that look like grains of rice, and they may be out stirring at night. Those are harmless also.

Cheers,



Don

 

I had a rash of small white snails that were similiar in shape to the sundials. They were under 1/8th of an inch and I would find them on my Nerites until I had no nerites left. I waited 6 months without snails and just starting to repopulate them. Maybe you will not have the same thing I had. Keep an eye on the larger snails for the smaller hitchicking on them. I never found any worthwhile info on them.
Good Luck
Danny