snails

[Fish-Fanatic]

Do snails and other invertabrites make ammonia? and if so does it hurt them like it hurts fish? i was thinking about getting just a tank of invertabirtes with alot of snails for my eventual puffer lol. but do the make ammonia and does it hurt them because i dont think i want to go through the nerve racking prosscess we all know as cycleing just for some crabs and such.......

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Shizat]

I would imagine they do because almost all living things give off some small amount of ammonia in their waste.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

They certainly do produce ammonia. They eat and therefore excrete waste. Break the waste down and you get ammonia.

Also, if you were to put a bunch of snails in your tank and they were to die all of a sudden, you'd have a crap-load of pollution to worry about because their bodies would decompose and make a mess. Just some info....

 

[HeatherSweetness]

Also, if you were to put a bunch of snails in your tank and they were to die all of a sudden, you'd have a crap-load of pollution to worry about because their bodies would decompose and make a mess. Just some info

That happened to me not too long ago,some meds I used killed nearly half of my trumpet snails and it was AWFUL. Dead snails are POISON.