Is My Betta French?

[GuppyDude]

Umm...Ma'zen just ate my small apple snail i got the snail a few months ago when he road in on some plants and decided to freeload off my tank but today my betta ate him i know you guys say the wont but the way i found the snail shell it looks like he flipped it over and just dug in the snail was only 2cm long or about this long _____ i know i didn't buy him or rely appritiate him freeloading but i did kind get attached to the little guy so if u have a small snail with a betta make sure that betta is well fed!!!

 

[Sorrell]

That's pretty common Bettas like snails

 

[Chino]

French betta? ???


Are ghost shrimp a good companion to bettas?

 

[juliethegr8t]

Chino - Bettas will almost always chow on ghost shrimp companions too!

 

[littlefishie]

Almost always? Well then.. Captain Morgan's the exception! lol He's in a 2.5 with one ghost shrimp, and they play together. Shrimpy will take a ride on the filter current, Captain Morgan will follow him on the current, and then they play tag around the tank. C.M. chases him sometimes, and Shrimpy chases him right back. It's so cute.. (Oh, and C.M. isn't chasing him to eat him either. He flares at his food. Like my boyfriend's betta.. though.. Bonzai flares at everything, really.)

 

[GuppyDude]

well in most cases ghost shrimp are dead before they hit the water but a snail, that snail lived in a female betta community for months and never had trouble until my boy got ahole of him i heard on here somewhere snails were safe

 

[littlefishie]

I could swear that I saw in another section, relating to Itty Bitty Betta's 2.5 planted betta tank, that she had a snail infestation and just smashed them on the glass for her betta to eat after she had held one in a pair of tweezers to see if he'd eat it. ..He sucked it right out of the shell, I believe.

 

[SRC]

But the question is....is it GOOD for betta's to eat snails? lol

If it is..and snails seem to be so easy to have a problem with..would that be a viable live food source, for them to hunt/kill/eat as well?

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

i dont see why not i dropped 2 gold mystery snails in my female community not knowing they would try and rip them to shreds i had to move the snails