Well, I put an apple snail in my tank lastnight (only had 1 healthy, cute, goldfish named inky). This morning inky is gone. not outside the tank or anything... I cant beleive a snail ate a almost 3 inch long fish 
It Ate My Fish!
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I can't believe it either. Did you check under furniture. A floppy fish can travel quite a ways away from the tank. Check filter intake also. Hope he turns up. On the up side, if the snail ate him, he had to be dead first.
I checked EVERYWHERE (ive had experiance with floopy fish before). Lastnight b4 I went to bed, I looked in my tank and the fish was in the corner like usual, but the snail was right beside it (almost like it was gonna corner it), and this morning, the snail is where I last saw the fish. I am so confused. he didnt even devour my plants.
like mooman said. the fish would have had to of died of some other cause before the snail could get it's hands on it. Never met a snail who could out swim even a sick fish.
That part wouldn't suprise me at all, snails seem to have an unbelievable capicity to consume food rapidly and apple snails are big boys. I would agree that the fish had to be dead though.
Dave
daveedka said:
Some (generally very large) apple snails have been confirmed to consume live bettas; in a typical scenario, the snail will engulf its (often injured or otherwise slow-moving) prey with its billowing bulk, and then dispatch it with its radula. I must note that the average apple snail is by no means a habitual predator.
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it was a 29 gallon tank... This is just crazy... seems like no one beleives me. Well at least i know how to get him to eat though...