Snails in duckweed bought for Betta's

[Bekah]

Hi,

So I bought some organic duckweed from someone on ebay, and I notice as I was adding them to my Betta's tank, there were these tiny itty bitty snails, but I think they are dead. Will this be a problem for my Betta's? How do I know that the snails are dead or alive. I don't see them moving.

[ANHEL123]

So you did it accident? If your tank is not cycled do a full water change. Is your betta acting sick?

[Briz]

There would be a danger if the number/size of dead organisms was large. Do a gravel vacuum to remove some of the dead snails. If they are small in size and not a ton of them, this should be sufficient. Just keep an eye on the water parameters to be safe.

[Bekah]

These are tiny itty bitty snails you can't even see them, unless you look really, really closely. Looks like they are not dead. According to someone who is familiar with the snails got back with me and told me if the snails are still int their shell's they are not dead.

The snails didn't end up in the tank because I took the duckweed by hand to put them in my tank gently to they stay on the top. Anyways, so I have a few baby snails and one bigger one, I'll just put them in my tank so they can live of whatever algae there is in the tank.

No, my Betta's are doing good. I just did a 85% water change when I added the duckweed at the very last minute when I was done with their tanks. I will be posting some pictures of how their tanks look like now, their permanent homes.

[ANHEL123]

I know a few people who had some kind of white something (live ) floating in the tank but looks like it didn't influenced the betta in any way. If you want i can give you those two links may be you have something similar.
I would like to see the pictures of your new tanks:)