Snail

[endlsop]

Hi. I am new at this. I have a ten gallon tank for my daughter with a couple of live plants, 3 mollies and 2 cory's. But this morning i saw a snail. Does that come off the plants? Are they harmful or will the fish bother it?

[ChilDawg]

Describing the snail might be helpful, but if they came in on your plants, you are probably okay to keep them with your fish. They can be beneficial in a tank, so letting them go is probably for the best.

[TKOS]

You might find that 1 little snail quickly becomes many little snails. I know that my cories love to have them for a snack after I crush them.

[ChilDawg]

Good point, TKOS. If you don't feed too much, though, the snails will not be able to "infest" the entire tank as there aren't enough nutrients for their needs.

[GEV83]

Yeah they can become a pain if they over run your tank my Dentist well the facility has a small 10gal with like 6 tetras on was a cardinal tetra well anyways they have these ones with cone shell and well it looked like there was more snail then grave they had about an inch of that small blue gravel. They were all over in the filter tube in and on the gravel on a few decorations they had I think they made up half of the gravel hough.

[ChilDawg]

Malaysian Trumpet Snails ("Google" this to see if that's what you have.) are notorious for overrunning a tank in no time, but they are beneficial, and are kept in check by low nutrient levels.

[GEV83]

Yeah it was them just couldnt think of the name at the top of my head. Yeah there was a grip of them. A clown loach would have a field day in that tank.

[Mantis_22]

thats when a gold barb or clown loach would become handy. They eat snails like a fat woman in Kmart chasing after the last box of twinkies.

(Ok bad example... proves the point) :D

[ChilDawg]

That's pretty offensive, though. I've seen skinny women eat Twinkies like crazy and larger women eat nothing but salad. Would you consider changing your analogy?

[Mantis_22]

thats when a gold barb or clown loach would become handy. They eat snails like a fat woman in Kmart chasing after the last box of twinkies.

" They eat snails like a fat women in Kmart chasing after the last box of Nutra-Grains?"

*I quote myself.. :)

[ChilDawg]

Look, I weigh almost 300 lbs., so I find any references like that to "fat people" quite offensive. Would you please find a new analogy? Something like "they eat snails so rapidly that you'd think that they were piranhas"? Thanks in advance.

[Mantis_22]

dude im 253 pounds and Im top linebacker in the sectional of the state. Im proud to be fat LOL. Sorry if I offend you, just didnt offend me even though I am chubby.

To the mods: sorry this is all off topic :(

[ChilDawg]

Okay, I didn't know that you, too, were a little large-ish...it is all right for you to leave the quotes then...I just don't like skinny people insulting fat people like that.