Snails?

[Bebobb]

For some reason I want a snail to go in my tengallon tank, look in signature. What snail would not eat my plants and get along with my ram and tetras? And information will be helpful.

 

[saltynay]

Large ones:
Nerites, Apple snail only if it is a bridgessi (curiosity 101 is selling some in the classifieds section), assassin snails (need to be fed catfish pellets or have a "pest" snail to eat) and giant ramshorns

Small ones ( some consider pests personally I like them and add them to my tanks purposefully)
ramshorns, pond snails, malaysian trumpet snails

 

[loraxchick]

i also purposefully add snails to my tank. pond snails and apple(mystery) snails to clean my plants and glass, and trumpet snails to keep my sand turned over...snails serve such a great purpose in a tank, and are interesting to boot! any snail you chose should be fine in your tank.

cheers

 

[Bebobb]

i also purposefully add snails to my tank. pond snails and apple(mystery) snails to clean my plants and glass, and trumpet snails to keep my sand turned over...snails serve such a great purpose in a tank, and are interesting to boot! any snail you chose should be fine in your tank.

cheers

But I don't want my tank to have like 10 of them. It is only a ten gallon.

 

[saltynay]

In that size your only restriction is you should have either 1 nerite or 1 apple snail in the tank as their adult size needs 10 gallon each intial tank size ideally. Pest snails normally stay so small having many is negligable but I would reccomend you get a few assassins once the pest population has become established to control numbers. MTS stay in the substrate most of the day so you will hardly notice them, I had a 3cm long one suddenly appear yesterday from the depths of my substrate previously only though they were around 1cm at max in my tank due to assassin predation.

 

[Bebobb]

I read up on assassins, and wouldn't they eat my grown apple snail?

 

[saltynay]

How big is the apple snail exactly? They will go for easier targets usually as apple snails have a protective door to their shell and are much larger then an assassin. They do attack larger targets then themselves on occassion and group hunt if the oppurtunity arises but killing an adult apple snail would be like a goldfish try to eating a 10 year old child.