I just recently bought 2 large Golden Mystery Snails for my 75 gallon tank. They seem to be eating some of my plants. I haven't determined how much damage they are really doing to my plants, but I was wondering what your experiences have been with Apple Snails and your live plants. Should I get rid of these things or what?
Apple Snails and Live plants
- Thread starter tamccain
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If they really are mystery snails they won't eat your plants, however these snails seem to be more often than not mis-identified. Apple snail types other than mystery snails will eat your plants. So most likely you have some other type of apple snail, and unless you like the snails better than your plants I would definately find a home for them elsewhere. I recently went through the same scenario, I bought 3 Gold and 3 black mysteries, and the golds ate my plants while the black mysteries didn't. I'm still trying to find a reliable source for Gold mystery snails.
Dave
Dave
Swimfins
This is as good as it gets.
I had a big black mystery snail, razed my plants in one night. He was cute though, back to the store he went.