Snail killers

Thanks for the encouragement.
 
msjinkzd said:
The snails will not eat healthy plants, only the decaying plant matter.
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I'd read that pond snails munched on live plants. That isn't true? :confused:
 
I have snails in my tanks and they don't bother the plants at all that I can see. Just don't overfeed as stated above and if they start to get a little out of hand just take the big ones out as needed.
 
Is it only some snails that eat dead/dying plant matter, or will some snails that you might get as hitchiker's from a LFS eat your live plants?

I saw a baby snail in my tank, almost transparent and teeny tiny(so I couldn't say what kind). I was happy and worried at the same time; If he won't eat my living plants, I'm happy. I'm worried that he may.
 
Most of my snails hitched thier way into my tanks and I gave up trying to get them all out. They don't seem to bother the plants at all and I had very large numbers in the tanks at times.
 
I'll probably be keeping a dwarf puffer, so I'm kinda hoping the snails will populate enough to keep his teeth in good shape as long as they don't touch my plants :P haha
 
Well, we'll soon see, because there are snail eggs in my new tank! These guys are worse than guppies! Irishspy - was not intending to suggest you had led me astray - I also felt that snails would eat live plants - and I am sure plenty of other newbies thought so too...I'm glad we discussed this on this thread - it has saved a lot of snails in future, I'm sure :)
 
I have pond snails and ramshorns in all 12 of my tanks, all of which are pretty densely planted. The only time i have seen the plants get eaten is on dead/dying leaves.
 
msjinkzd said:
I have pond snails and ramshorns in all 12 of my tanks, all of which are pretty densely planted. The only time i have seen the plants get eaten is on dead/dying leaves.
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Good to know. Looks like Speedy gets a reprieve, then. :thumbsup:
 
Tanks for the post!!! I have recently added my first live plants to one of my tanks. I always use plasticus fakeyous since I never knew what to use. I panicked when I saw 2 tiny snails about in there. I saw one actually swimming! I didn't know they could swim! I had added Hornwort, banana plants (3), Anubia barteri (Nana) (1). This is a community tank with mostly neon tetras. I didn't want to endanger my neons and was freaking over the 2 snails until I rest this post.

Thanks for setting my mind at ease.
 
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