carnivorous water snails

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Hanna

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hi guys :help:
I was wondering about fresh water snails that you put in your fish tank. They are pretty big and i have one in my gold fish tank, but recently it has killed two of my gold fish :mad2: . It has been getting on them and sucking their fins off and nipping their scales off and killing them. I have had one before and it didnt do this to my fish and i was wondering if you could tell me why its doing this or is it just this one snail if i should just get a different one. :thm:

Thanks
From Hannah
 
What species of snail is this? A healthy fish wouldn't be a prey item for a snail and snails don't generally prey on fish either. They scavenge off dead and dying ones however. There are dozens of freshwater snails in the trade alone though the most common are Apples of which none are predatory.
 
hi again,

I looked it up and the apple snail does look like the snail in my tank.They were both healthy fish until he chewed their fins off :sad: .Its deffently him killing them because we found one dead in the tank with all its fins chewed off and then a week later i looked in the tank and he was on on the bottom of the tank and it was all chewed and bitten so i pulled it off it and the fish was still alive but couldnt swim so i left it for two mins and it just died its really strange but it is the snail doing it. :huh:

thanks :)
 
sounds to me more like your fish are dying, and the snails are scavenging. When my fish died or are laying on bottem, thats when I see my snails trying to scavenge off them, eating fins etc, same with my ghost shrimp...

I'm not sure how an apple snail could attack a fish, they arent the fastest creatures.
 
The snail is doing the eating but not the killing. Something is making your fish sick allowing the snail to get them while they are laying on the bottom.
 
yes the applesnail CAN'T predate on healthy fish!!!! your fish may be alive, but they are sick, and slow enough for the snail to start eating!!! they would die anyway, the snail is just speeding things up a bit.
 
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