 It favours ditches with much aquatic flora but little emergent vegetation.Invasive plants such as floating marsh pennywort, ("Hydrocotyle ranunculouides"), that sometimes chokes ditches, and the Himalayan balsam ("Impatiens glandulifera") are particularly harmful.This species often lives in places where there are lots of duckweed "Lemna" spp.. Water quality that is suitable for "Anisus vorticulus" is water without turbidity, with a high pH and a low level of nutrients.