Thinking of putting a big snail in with my betta

[gale]

But I'm worried that he might kill it. I have him in an eclipse explorer tank and the way it's set up, I have to take it all apart to scrub the tank walls which have algae on them. Which is a pain because of the area I have it in. These olive nerites have done an amazing job in my bigger tanks and I'm sure one big one wouild do great in my betta tank but I wonder if he would bug it. I put a small common snail in there once and about 2 or 3 weeks later found just the shell so I'm assuming he ate it. These nerites are much bigger (big ones are just over the size of a dime) but would he still hurt it?

 

[littlefishie]

I would think it'd be perfectly fine.. a snail that big shouldn't become a delightful escargot snack!

 

[Kiarra]

I currently have 6 Mystery Snails (which I suspect are actually Apple Snails, but they were sold to me as Mystery Snails, so I'm calling them that) in various adult Betta tanks, waiting to go back into fry tanks when the fry are older and the daddies are gone, and they're doing fine. Some feelers have been consumed, but the snails seem to learn pretty fast to keep their feelers in, and the Bettas have stopped hassling them. They are larger than the snail you're describing, though, I think.

 

[The-Wolf]

according to applesnail.net
bettas should not be kept with apple snails
as they will eat them.

FYI mystery snail is another name for apple snail

 

[Kiarra]

Yeah, I know they can be used interchangeably, but there is actually a species of Mystery Snail apart from Apple Snails, and Apple Snails came to be known as Mystery Snail through some kind of mistake. At least, that's how I remember it from my research on them.

And they don't always get eaten. Mine have been fine for a while.

 

[BettaMomma]

I have an apple snail in my female betta tank.
He's doing fine in there - nobody bothers him.
In fact, I think all the girls are in love with him.
Maybe it'd be different if he was in a tank with a male, but he's doing just fine in the girly tank.

 

[cerulean]

apple snails are in with all my fish and i've never had a problem, but each fish is different. the snails are great cleaning the tanks. as a matter of a fact they're multiplying.....which may lead to a future post lol but only if they get totally out of control. they've been way too helpful to just get rid of.

 

[AlexsDaddy]

My ramshorn snails got harrassed in my female tank and male tanks so much they would hardly come out of their shell even to move around to find food so they are in a betta free tank now. After 3 weeks they are moving around more, but still don't come out of their shell much. I guess it really depends on the betta.