Apple Snails As Betta Tank Mates?

[CherryDanio]

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has experience keeping apple snails with Bettas (male). I have a 28L tank which I am currently cycling (very slowly grr...) and I intend on getting one male Betta. I have a few apple snails knocking about in another tank and would like to put a couple in the Betta tank. Would the Betta tolerate them do you think? Thanks in advance.

 

[Honeythorn]

My females don't bother my apple snail at all. I don't see any reason why a male should object. He might flare at it once or twice but there's no real harm a betta could do a snail that size.

 

[JenCliBee]

Yeh i agree with honey i have apple snails just over a cm big with my male betta and apart from some showing off and flaring they live quite harmoniously

jen

 

[bae1994]

oooh i want some ive had em before but want one now

 

[sheepdove]

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has experience keeping apple snails with Bettas (male). I have a 28L tank which I am currently cycling (very slowly grr...) and I intend on getting one male Betta. I have a few apple snails knocking about in another tank and would like to put a couple in the Betta tank. Would the Betta tolerate them do you think? Thanks in advance.

They should not be kept with Bettas. Apple Snails are best off kept with Danio's, Guppies, White Clouds, Neon Tetra's, and Cory's.

 

[sheepdove]

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has experience keeping apple snails with Bettas (male). I have a 28L tank which I am currently cycling (very slowly grr...) and I intend on getting one male Betta. I have a few apple snails knocking about in another tank and would like to put a couple in the Betta tank. Would the Betta tolerate them do you think? Thanks in advance.

Betta no. I recommend your namesake the Danio. Especially the Red Zebra Danio because of how beautiful it is. Betta's are fighting fish and will constantly attack your Apple Snails. Fish and Snails both should be separated from anything that seeks to attack it all the time. Even if it doesn't get killed from the attacks it can die from the stress eventually. For instance think of how it would be if you were attacked all the time. How would that affect you. If you wouldn't want to be putting up with attacks on you why would you expect Apple Snails to put up with attacks on them? Put yourself in their place.

 

[JenCliBee]

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has experience keeping apple snails with Bettas (male). I have a 28L tank which I am currently cycling (very slowly grr...) and I intend on getting one male Betta. I have a few apple snails knocking about in another tank and would like to put a couple in the Betta tank. Would the Betta tolerate them do you think? Thanks in advance.

Betta no. I recommend your namesake the Danio. Especially the Red Zebra Danio because of how beautiful it is. Betta's are fighting fish and will constantly attack your Apple Snails. Fish and Snails both should be separated from anything that seeks to attack it all the time. Even if it doesn't get killed from the attacks it can die from the stress eventually. For instance think of how it would be if you were attacked all the time. How would that affect you. If you wouldn't want to be putting up with attacks on you why would you expect Apple Snails to put up with attacks on them? Put yourself in their place.

And your experience is based on?, the likley hood of a betta attacking a apple snail is actually quite slim, aggression in mine isnt even a start to cause concern... yes all betta's are different but they also tend to go for like for like fish not somethink that doesnt really pose a threat.

Now 2 threads you've posted that i know of and both info wrong..... give up while your a little behind

 

[CherryDanio]

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has experience keeping apple snails with Bettas (male). I have a 28L tank which I am currently cycling (very slowly grr...) and I intend on getting one male Betta. I have a few apple snails knocking about in another tank and would like to put a couple in the Betta tank. Would the Betta tolerate them do you think? Thanks in advance.

Betta no. I recommend your namesake the Danio. Especially the Red Zebra Danio because of how beautiful it is. Betta's are fighting fish and will constantly attack your Apple Snails. Fish and Snails both should be separated from anything that seeks to attack it all the time. Even if it doesn't get killed from the attacks it can die from the stress eventually. For instance think of how it would be if you were attacked all the time. How would that affect you. If you wouldn't want to be putting up with attacks on you why would you expect Apple Snails to put up with attacks on them? Put yourself in their place.

Whilst I appreciate your reply your 'tone' is a little bit aggressive... I would not put up with aggression towards any of my pets. Hence why I am asking for members advice before I risked any animal in my care and I resent the assumption that I wouldn't care.

 

[Honeythorn]

Sheepdove - Unless you have significant evidence and repeated experience of bettas visciously annihilating apple snails in cold blooded rage , such advice is both incorrect and unnessecary. GET A GRIP.

A betta will not be able to cause any real damage to an apple snail even if it were to "attack". The snail will simply retreat into it's shell and come out later.

Also, adding the snail a couple of days before the fish will ensure that the betta will simply see it as part of the environment and not as a threat. None of mine have ever done more than give the odd peck at my apple snail, and after discovering it was not edible or interesting they have since left him alone.

At the most all a male would really do is flare at it occasionally.

Cherrydanio - Add the snail first, and the betta a few days later. There should be very little trouble. A betta will not be able to kill an apple snail and it's highly unlikely to die from any stress caused by a betta flaring at it.

 

[JasonU]

I might be wrong but I have found three empty shell cases in the past week in the bettas tank. Without the help of a CSI forsenic team I am pretty sure that he has developed a technique for getting past their shell.

 

[Platygirl11]

Beta-CSI!
(Dramatic music)
I don't think a beta could do much damage to a snail that big.
Yours much be geniuses. (No sarcasm, really, they're fish geniuses)

 

[Honeythorn]

Are these snails fully grown? A single betta should not be able to kill and consume a well grown apple snail without you noticing either any agression on the fishes part, or him eating them , espescially 3 in a week. Don't forget some fish medications and tank treatments can be lethal to snails and shrimp. So if you've added anything like that , I'd say it was more likely for treatments to kill them.

 

[CTlovesKS]

I wouldnt think that your betta would do any harm to the apple snails. The fish would be stupid to take on something that is alot bigger then himself. As people have said, the most it will do it flare up and sometime nip he sell. Once the betta knows he is no threat then he should leavehim alone. As another person said, add everything you want to the tank before putting the beatin (Add betta last) this is make him think everything in the tank is not athreat but pat of the tank.


Jason... How long have you had the snails, could be just they died... I believe that a betta couldnt do that, and if he did then he is one smart fish, I suppose its free food for him lol... Why not replace them (As cheap as they are) and closly watch to see if it is the betta. if not asked the shop for some bigger empty shells for them. They might just have moved to find a bigger shell and is hinding because they cant find one... (Sorry really dont know how snails work)

 

[Honeythorn]

Apple snails can't change shells. You're thinking of hermit crabs

 

[CTlovesKS]

Apple snails can't change shells. You're thinking of hermit crabs

hehe silly me. garden snails change shell so i though water snails did too haha.