It's a golden mystery snail...
2006-10-26 13:48:22 · 16 answers · asked by scissor-girl 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
if you bought it from a store, no but there are wild snails that can and will kill a fish . but pet stores wotn sell them because they are extremily poisnious if you get bit by one. well at least some species.
2006-10-26 13:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have had this unfortunate experience many times. Golden snails seem to be the worst. Snails seem to be opportunists and especially in smaller tanks. If you have a Betta in a small bowl with a snail for example, most likely the snail will get around to eating it. It is true snails dispose of dead fish too but they go after live fish at any opportunity especially if the snails not properly fed.
2006-10-26 23:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This will sound like crazy!!!, but I have a friend who had some fishes, and he added some snails she bought in the pet store... the snails started to reproduce and soon the tank was full of snails!! and the fishes died
2006-10-26 15:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by Unknown 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I witnessed a snail that had gripped a baby Plecostomas? & sucked it dead. This was at Wal-Mart. I notified the clerk, who then tried to pry the fish from the snail's awesome grip. That day I learned something new about snails.
2006-10-26 17:01:55 · answer #4 · answered by Daiquiri Dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mystery snails are harmless. They'll eat dead fish. They can carry disease, and too many will foul the water, but that's the same as any fish.
2006-10-26 14:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The snail ought to no longer kill it yet in accordance with the place u have been given it it ought to have a chemical. or if u in simple terms started out the tank an no longer waited awhile for the tank o get precise the fish ought to have died in simple terms becuse te chemical ingredients interior the water u used to fill the tank. wish this helped
2016-12-16 15:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by ketcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not likely but snails also carry parasites into your tank which may be fatal for your fish.
2006-10-26 17:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by rian 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't think so, maybe when a fish died in your tank and you ignored it for quite awhile and the fish ended up decaying, then the snail can have its meal
2006-10-26 14:28:47 · answer #8 · answered by dM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snails only eat a fish that is sick or a fish that is already dead. They don't attack healthy fish.
2006-10-28 15:59:19 · answer #9 · answered by Leslie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes............ in malaysia, there're a specis of snails known as 'siput babi' which can easily swallows and digest the fish with a kind of acids produce in the body.....
2006-10-26 21:38:55 · answer #10 · answered by adam_26 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋