What fish can live with snails?
by Aquaboy on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 | 9 Comments
I have a regular fresh water aquarium. It’s got three fish. Two guppies and a platy. I have a new spot where I have my tank on a table, and I think it’s causing algae to grow. My fish seem to like eating it, but they’re not very good at it. At first I thought about a Cory cat fish, but apparently the die really easily. So now I am thinking about snails. How much do they usually cost? Can they live with the fish I have? Do they die easily? Also, when I am done with these fish, I was thinking about just buying some goldfish. Can the snails function with them?
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The Rhino-Fish, The Penguin-Fish, and The Turtle-Fish are the best choices.
Snails are super cheap, probably less than a buck each. They don’t die easily unless you run out of food. I’ve kept snails with goldfish and they get along just fine, most fish aren’t aggressive.
Snails can live with pretty much every fish smaller than four inches or are herbivores. The best type of tropical freshwater snails are:
- Gold Snails
- Mystery or Apple Snails
- Malaysian Live- Bearing Snail
- Japanese Live- Bearing Snail
- Ramshorn Snails
Apple snails are the best for cold-water fish.
snails are so cheap, there are a lot of types
apple snail
gold snails
Japanese live
ramshorn
and also mystery snails!
I would recommend apple snails
good luck
Corydoras aren’t hard to keep. They are extremely hardy.
1. To name a few…. Applesnails usually go for around $2 each at local petstores. Red Ramshorns are not really seen in traditional petstores but I usually get them online in groups for $5-$20 depending on how many are in each group. Pondsnails are free and usually come clinging to live plants and are the pesky type snails. Asolene Spixi’s(not in traditional petstores) also are kind of pricey due to their beauty.
2. Snails can live with fish and depending on which type you acquire…they can keep you tank free of algae but are big poopers and some poop more than fish.
3. Snails do not die easily unless you provide them with no sinking foods and your tank always prestine clean.
4. Yes. Snails can live with goldfish. I have 10 Ivory Mystery Snails with my Goldfish and they don’t even bother the snails. The only thing I see with the two being together is that the goldfish are sooo greedy
snails never get any of the goldfish food so at night when the goldfish are napping I just toss in some sinking shrimp pellets and I assume the snails get alteast some of them…if not they must be getting food particles that are down in the gravel.
I personally hate snails they caused my tank so many problems the rate they breed at and everything and they’re just about impossible to eliminate. But if you must have snails then the types of fish that you have should do just fine i had the exact same breeds and they did good together.
Snails would be perfectly fine with th fish in your tank. I know it’s off topic but both of your species of fish like to school so getting them some tank mates of the same species might not be a bad idea either.
The goldfish thing you might want to check and see the Temperature requirements for the type of snail you want.
snails can live with almost virtually any fish. if you get them to eat algae, they produce more poop than they clean.