Snails, Good Or Bad?

[Benakaben]

Ive recently posted a topic about breeding mollies, today i receive a few live plants to put in with them and i have noticed this evening quite a few small white snails.

Are these good or bad for my tank?

At the moment every time i see one i squash it against the side of the tank and the mollies eat them up, because i hear these snails breed quite rapidly if you dont stay on top of them.

 

[Cazgar]

A few snails are I think beneficial.
If you don't overfeed your fish you shouldn't have a problem with them.

 

[Benakaben]

i feed them the tinyest pinch of flake every other day, do u mean that if my mollies are hungry enough they will eat the snails, or that the leftover food encourages snail growth?

 

[Cazgar]

The leftover food encourages the snails to breed, more food = more snails

 

[Benakaben]

Ahh ok thanks for the tip!

 

[StandbySetting]

Good

 

[Benakaben]

Good?

 

[pablothebetta]

A couple of snails won't be any harm, but those few snails will quickly turn into hundreds as they easily breed. If I were you, I would just try to get rid of them.

I bought some live plants a while back and found 'a' snail had come in on them. I didn't bother with it, because as far as I could see, there was only one. I currently have a snail issue in my tank and up until this morning, I had hundreds Now I am putting veggies in often to try to trap the snails and I often remove them as soon as I see them.

I would try to get rid of them all before you end up with oodles of them

 

[Fishy friend2]

I keep them as an "alert" to tell me when Im overfeeding

 

[Benakaben]

Ok thanks for info i thought they bred fast that why i just crush as soon as i see them!