Hey guys do fish eat snails? I know some do but what type?
I have loads of baby ramshorn snails in my tank and I've been finding lots of empty shells laying around the tank. I have a betta, danios, guppies, corys and a filter shrimp. Do you know which would be eating them?
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do fish eat snails?
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Re: do fish eat snails?
Any loaches in there? They are know snail feeders. I suppose a betta is a capable hunter and could take them out.
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Re: do fish eat snails?
No loaches dmd, I've read clown loaches do. Maybe the betta. I also thought it may be the corys.
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Re: do fish eat snails?
We have corys in the community (oh how I hate it) tank, and something in there ate all our ramshorns too.
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Re: do fish eat snails?
It will likely be the betta.
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Re: do fish eat snails?
Bettas will eventually wipe out ramshorns, but have a harder time w/common pond snails. Ramshorns expose too much of their body too often. Few fish will eat Olive Nerites. But those cannot reproduce in FW, though they do scatter egg here and there.
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