I tried for months to get rid of a pest snail invasion in my 5 gallons tank. I got rid of every big ones "manually" and even tried the chemicals but there was always smaller snails popping up. After some time I added a betta fish to the tank. He ate ALL OF THEM in his first week. I couldn't believe it ! It's now snail free in this tank even a year after he passed away naturally.
I can't imagine a tank without a mystery or some ramshorn snails in it. They are just such a part of the entire healthy ecosystem in my tanks. Whenever I set up a new tank a mystery snail or ramshorns or both go in first after cycling. They produce a lot of good infusoria which also helps balance a new tank. 👍❤👍
I haven’t bought any snails, except Assassins. I’ve gotten “pest” snails from plants, so I got the Assassins to “take care of business “. I actually love my Assassins. I think they’re pretty cool snails and I would never have a tank without them. Thanks for an informative video. Happy New Year!
while it may seem like the snails are too big for bettafish to eat, betta fish do have tiny shark like teeth used to fight male bettas and they CAN and WILL use those teeth to take chunks of flesh out of snails and eat them. even large snails can be at risk if the betta fish wants a snack and they will eat snail eggs and baby snails without regrets
I have four types of snails in my planted 40 Breeder display tank. The rabbit snails and mystery snails are for show. The bladder snails are for cleaning the surfaces in the tank and keeping algae off my plants. And the Malaysian trumpet snails are for keeping my substrate turned and cleaned. It’s dirt capped with eco complete gravel. I won’t ever get rid of the snails as they provide such an essential part of the breaking down of everything that then can go to the plants. The large rabbit and mystery snails do the first part. Then the small snails come in and break everything down further. Remember the circle of life. Thanks for the great video. And keep on snailin.
Definitely agree with you points, Kasia! I keep Ramshorn snails, and they're all over my tanks. I started out with only 1, and now I don't even know HOW much I have. But having a couple of snails around can be beneficial, as they help break down debris and help cycle the tank. Keep up the fantastic work! 👍
Thanks kasia! Great video I breed a ton of mystery snails , they are quite beautiful😍 I was having some slight algae in my neolamprilogus multifasciatus tank, and I added a few mystery snails, they look great but not the best algae eaters, so I added 3 mts snails never seen them but all the algae was disappearing pretty fast like 2nweeks and tank sparkles. Turned the light on the other night and wow about 40 snails now! I might get like 1 assassin snail to keep it in check. Such great timing! You vids are the best🙂👍🏻
First of all your intro before commenting is pretty cool Second of all I’m here mostly because I wanted to let everyone know I saw my beta slurp out a snail that was swimming not skimming along the walls but swimming straight up to the surface of the tank it look like And then this betta I named dragon comes in and slurps him out of his shell in .05 of a second Hope you have a good day and happy New Years lol
I can't speak for bettas, however my dwarf gourami picks off hatchling bladder snails she catches out in the open. The glowlight tetras will knock down snail hatchlings off the aquarium sides. this can keep them from reaching the surface to get air. Once the snail is a little larger than the fish's pupils though, the gourami and tetras ignore them.
I love my snails ! ♥♥ They fit naturally in the tanks, everyone's got their place and role in it ! Mesofauna too is super interesting (and emergency food for my bettas XD)
But Snails 🐌 Destory Plants in Fish Tank, First day they cut half plant Then second day they eat complete plant. I got 2 snails they distorted 2 plants in 2 days.
Thus video helped me decide on getting a snail for my tank. Have had a female crown tail betta for about 4 or 5 months doing fine by herself but brown algea started growing so looked into nerite snails. Picked one up today and it's already going to town. The betta is leaving it alone also. Now my old male crown tail, that thing was mean idk if it would've liked having tank mates lol it would "attack" my finger or the ph testing strips. Thinking if all goes well for a couple weeks getting 1 ghost shrimp too.
What one must not forget, what I noticed especially with the Asolene spixii, that the KH suddenly drops rapidly when they multiply strongly. Depending on the fish tank, you really have to be careful, but it can also be very useful. Our water from the tap suddenly got harder, which our fish in the 300l tank don't like at all. I have the Asolene spixii in another tank and put a couple of them in the 300l tank. This enabled me to lower the KH again.
i have mixed opinions on snails. they eat my ludwigia and java fern. they make a lot of waste but some like nerites are good tankmates , they eat algae , they look cool and an added bonus to pest snails is that mbuna find them delicious
My swordtails pick at snail eggs and keep them in check. I also picked up 5 yo yo loaches to feed snails to when their population blooms in other tanks. Snails don't bother me as much as they use to, I've had a few small fish die in bigger tanks and the snail's do clean them up if you don't notice they are missing.. other times a large group of snails let me know a fish died.. A easy snail trap is a small bowl with a pleco wafer or vegetable in it. The snail's will swarm it and you can take out the bowl when you see it full..
I got snails from some plants, didn’t notice until recently. They are little black snails, no idea what kind. They are kinda cute! But I’m worried about them over breeding.. I don’t even have fish in it yet. It’s been cycling haha
I got one assassin snail, it must have been pregnant, I soon had dozens. I had to get rid of them when they killed my nerite(and the water started to foul from having the rotting carcass
I've heard nothing but negative things about snails, but I wanted to get one 1, to start. So I wouldn't have to worry about them breeding. Now if it's preggers 🤷🏻♂️it could be a problem. I just don't know. But this vid explains well 👍🏻👍🏻 thank you!!
I wanted 3 mystery snails but my tank is 50 us gal I had 4 yo-yo loaches but 2 died. I'll get 2 or 4 more. I betta ate a dead tetra lol and a green fly that hit the water he's a beast
I don't feel like snails are something that I would ever buy. That said I let the ramshorns that come in my plants stay. I let a few get big and more or less control the numbers by destroying their nests. I'll miss some every once in a while and get a few more snails than anticipated but because I just keep betta tanks the dropped food is never enough to sustain a big population. I get rid of the tiny ones whenever I can and the other ones just manage themselves.
i used to love snails until i got 2 separate infestations in different tanks. one of my bettas died from eating too many of them but the other is fine with them luckily
I have 4 adult mystery nails and I freeze there eggs, 1 narite and she laid down her eggs everywhere, 1 trapdoor easy no problems. 2 about rabbit and they have had 4 babies, FINALLY I made the mistake of adding ram horns 😡… still removing them to this day
I haven't had luck bought 6 helmet snails & while I was doing water changes outside I left them there all night & rhamshorn snails are the worst not doubt & Happy New year's
Personally dont favour snails in my tank. Only snail I've kept is mystery snail. Have had some pest snails come in on live plants though but my yoyo loaches eat them. Happy new year Kasia. Great video, thank you
@@CreativePetKeeping the mystery snail died, polluted the water and I struggled with water parameters so decided no more snails from that point. Plus had a ramshorn infestation at one point hence the yoyo loaches. Wont deny some snail species are very beautiful to look at though and very entertaining to watch at times
Hi Kasia, let me start off by wishing you and the family a happy and safe new year. Quick question with regards to mystery snails, with shell pitting even after adding wonder shells all I can do is slow it down. Any suggestions, thank you from NYC
Thanks for the video! I have many bladder snails multiplying in my small 10g tank. I saw some small bladder snails. I am quite old and poor eye sight. I have one seemingly stupid question. If I remove those small snails manually and fail to notice some sticking on my hands and touch my face will it goes into my ear and breed inside?
I keep nerites in my tank, they do a great job at eating algae. And the little ghost shrimp I keep eat the eggs or deter them from laying them I think because ever since I started keeping shrimp in the tank too, I see hardly ANY eggs and they used to be all over the place if I had nerites for very long. I'm just lucky my betta fish is relatively low aggression, he goes after the zebra nerites a bit but not too bad, ignores the olive nerites for the most part. I guess he notices the stripes more. He was aggressive with the shrimp at first but they mostly ignore him and don't run so he's lost interest. I love having a little clean up crew in my tank. I give new plants a bleach dip or use snail zap
I've never kept nerite snails with shrimp before. That's a really cool observation! I have a rock full of nerite eggs..Im going to put it in with my cherry shrimp and see if they eat them as I don't have any ghost shrimp atm. It will be a fun experiment.
@@CreativePetKeeping Please let us know what happens! I am avoiding keeping nerite snails because of their eggs. Would live to know if cherry shrimp eat them.
@@CreativePetKeeping I haven't seen them do it but I noticed some of the eggs that were in there are gone. I don't know if they're eating them or what but I have definitely noticed almost no new eggs since adding shrimp
@@CreativePetKeeping my other theory is that the shrimp make the snails feel just insecure enough to not lay eggs. Like there's potential predators around. But I really don't know. I just know since I added shrimp, I haven't had to scrape nerite eggs off everything every other week
@@apss5736 Well, it depends on the species, but for the genus Lampyris (and maybe Luciola with terrestrial larvae) I have a good method. There are some videos on my channel about it. Otherwise, lampyrids are basically absent from the invert hobby. But it seems that bioluminescent click beetles are slowly entering the keeper community in the USA...
i just intruded a snale and beta and 3 guppys to a small 5 galon that has some plants i put in it. the snail was going up a stem of watercress and the beta saw it moving while exploring the tank and watched it super close then bit the lil guy lmaoooo. the snail is still ok though.
I think it depends on the snails, and the betta. I have one betta I can't have snails with because a mystery snail munched on his bottom fin. But I have them with others with no problems like that. I also have one betta that likes to beat up his mystery snails. So, total I keep 17 bettas and only have 2 diffrent problems 😂
I hope you liked this video ^_^ here are some more fun topics to watch: Top 5 ❌DON'T do this to your betta: ua-cam.com/video/C2plCUUUnhw/v-deo.html Adding a GIANT betta to my community tank!: ua-cam.com/video/rCHrK-50JoE/v-deo.html 🔥 IS YOUR BETTA WATER TOO HOT? ua-cam.com/video/vHeQUdDarDs/v-deo.html
I tried for months to get rid of a pest snail invasion in my 5 gallons tank. I got rid of every big ones "manually" and even tried the chemicals but there was always smaller snails popping up.
After some time I added a betta fish to the tank. He ate ALL OF THEM in his first week. I couldn't believe it ! It's now snail free in this tank even a year after he passed away naturally.
I can't imagine a tank without a mystery or some ramshorn snails in it. They are just such a part of the entire healthy ecosystem in my tanks. Whenever I set up a new tank a mystery snail or ramshorns or both go in first after cycling. They produce a lot of good infusoria which also helps balance a new tank.
👍❤👍
I might actually like snails better than fish at this point. I haven't decided. :)
Same
Ikr. I love snails and just recently got a betta with some snails. I can’t wait to have a giant African lane snail though. (Not aquatic)
Same 😭 my nerite snail has such a personality and has quickly become a favorite in my tank
I haven’t bought any snails, except Assassins. I’ve gotten “pest” snails from plants, so I got the Assassins to “take care of business “. I actually love my Assassins. I think they’re pretty cool snails and I would never have a tank without them.
Thanks for an informative video. Happy New Year!
They are really cool snails to keep. I like them a lot as well ^_^ Happy New Year!
I love my tank snails, I have around 8 in my tank right now, they're all future generations of a single snail I plucked out of a pond 2 years ago
while it may seem like the snails are too big for bettafish to eat, betta fish do have tiny shark like teeth used to fight male bettas and they CAN and WILL use those teeth to take chunks of flesh out of snails and eat them.
even large snails can be at risk if the betta fish wants a snack and they will eat snail eggs and baby snails without regrets
A solution to MTS ‘exploring’ the HOB…
Put a pre filter sponge over the intake strainer
I have four types of snails in my planted 40 Breeder display tank. The rabbit snails and mystery snails are for show. The bladder snails are for cleaning the surfaces in the tank and keeping algae off my plants. And the Malaysian trumpet snails are for keeping my substrate turned and cleaned. It’s dirt capped with eco complete gravel. I won’t ever get rid of the snails as they provide such an essential part of the breaking down of everything that then can go to the plants. The large rabbit and mystery snails do the first part. Then the small snails come in and break everything down further. Remember the circle of life. Thanks for the great video. And keep on snailin.
I’m pro snail 🐌 However I have the same problem with MTS and HOB filters, Big pain in the butt. At least I have a puffer to feed them to.
Definitely agree with you points, Kasia! I keep Ramshorn snails, and they're all over my tanks. I started out with only 1, and now I don't even know HOW much I have. But having a couple of snails around can be beneficial, as they help break down debris and help cycle the tank. Keep up the fantastic work! 👍
my new betta certainly looks at the old snail shells like he wants to eat them...
8:56 I wasn't even paying attention to her I was looking in the bag to see 2-3 yellow fish playing tag
I keep Mystery (Ivory, Blue, Gold and Black) and also ramshorn (pink, blue leopard) in my tank and love them.
I love my ramshorns.. in an ecosphere.
You have really nice video quality!
Thanks kasia! Great video I breed a ton of mystery snails , they are quite beautiful😍 I was having some slight algae in my neolamprilogus multifasciatus tank, and I added a few mystery snails, they look great but not the best algae eaters, so I added 3 mts snails never seen them but all the algae was disappearing pretty fast like 2nweeks and tank sparkles. Turned the light on the other night and wow about 40 snails now! I might get like 1 assassin snail to keep it in check. Such great timing! You vids are the best🙂👍🏻
First of all your intro before commenting is pretty cool
Second of all I’m here mostly because I wanted to let everyone know I saw my beta slurp out a snail that was swimming not skimming along the walls but swimming straight up to the surface of the tank it look like
And then this betta I named dragon comes in and slurps him out of his shell in .05 of a second
Hope you have a good day and happy New Years lol
I can't speak for bettas, however my dwarf gourami picks off hatchling bladder snails she catches out in the open. The glowlight tetras will knock down snail hatchlings off the aquarium sides. this can keep them from reaching the surface to get air. Once the snail is a little larger than the fish's pupils though, the gourami and tetras ignore them.
I love my snails ! ♥♥ They fit naturally in the tanks, everyone's got their place and role in it ! Mesofauna too is super interesting (and emergency food for my bettas XD)
But Snails 🐌 Destory Plants in Fish Tank,
First day they cut half plant Then second day they eat complete plant.
I got 2 snails they distorted 2 plants in 2 days.
Thanks for sharing your experience really Malaysian trumpet snails are annoying sometimes. The filter thing same happen with me in my tank too.
OMG... You are so beautiful and your voice is just awesome... Great knowledge on the snails thank u so much love from India ❤️
Thus video helped me decide on getting a snail for my tank. Have had a female crown tail betta for about 4 or 5 months doing fine by herself but brown algea started growing so looked into nerite snails. Picked one up today and it's already going to town. The betta is leaving it alone also. Now my old male crown tail, that thing was mean idk if it would've liked having tank mates lol it would "attack" my finger or the ph testing strips. Thinking if all goes well for a couple weeks getting 1 ghost shrimp too.
What one must not forget, what I noticed especially with the Asolene spixii, that the KH suddenly drops rapidly when they multiply strongly. Depending on the fish tank, you really have to be careful, but it can also be very useful.
Our water from the tap suddenly got harder, which our fish in the 300l tank don't like at all. I have the Asolene spixii in another tank and put a couple of them in the 300l tank. This enabled me to lower the KH again.
That's a very good point!
i have mixed opinions on snails. they eat my ludwigia and java fern. they make a lot of waste but some like nerites are good tankmates , they eat algae , they look cool and an added bonus to pest snails is that mbuna find them delicious
Great points!
My swordtails pick at snail eggs and keep them in check.
I also picked up 5 yo yo loaches to feed snails to when their population blooms in other tanks.
Snails don't bother me as much as they use to, I've had a few small fish die in bigger tanks and the snail's do clean them up if you don't notice they are missing.. other times a large group of snails let me know a fish died..
A easy snail trap is a small bowl with a pleco wafer or vegetable in it. The snail's will swarm it and you can take out the bowl when you see it full..
I got snails from some plants, didn’t notice until recently. They are little black snails, no idea what kind. They are kinda cute! But I’m worried about them over breeding.. I don’t even have fish in it yet. It’s been cycling haha
Could be a bladder snail. They're very common hitchhikers with plants.
I got one assassin snail, it must have been pregnant, I soon had dozens. I had to get rid of them when they killed my nerite(and the water started to foul from having the rotting carcass
can i put a mystery snail or nirate snail with one betta in a 3.5 gallon tank
What if I just get 1 snail? Will it still lay eggs?
When u have a 29 gallon with a beautiful orange crown tail and now as of this morning, 9 clutches in tank:) pet store buys the snails (mystery)
I've heard nothing but negative things about snails, but I wanted to get one 1, to start. So I wouldn't have to worry about them breeding. Now if it's preggers 🤷🏻♂️it could be a problem. I just don't know. But this vid explains well 👍🏻👍🏻 thank you!!
I wanted 3 mystery snails but my tank is 50 us gal I had 4 yo-yo loaches but 2 died. I'll get 2 or 4 more. I betta ate a dead tetra lol and a green fly that hit the water he's a beast
Why does my betta keep bumping my apple snail? 😔 its their first day together in a 1.2 gallon.
Yes, yes they do. Especially their tentacles.
I don't feel like snails are something that I would ever buy. That said I let the ramshorns that come in my plants stay. I let a few get big and more or less control the numbers by destroying their nests. I'll miss some every once in a while and get a few more snails than anticipated but because I just keep betta tanks the dropped food is never enough to sustain a big population. I get rid of the tiny ones whenever I can and the other ones just manage themselves.
not to mention a bunch of snails dying off.... that will cause some trouble...
i used to love snails until i got 2 separate infestations in different tanks. one of my bettas died from eating too many of them but the other is fine with them luckily
I don't know how but my betta figured out she can eat snails.
The population of snails just halved and I sometimes I see my betta slaughtering them.
Copper. Copper kills the mystery snails
I have 4 adult mystery nails and I freeze there eggs, 1 narite and she laid down her eggs everywhere, 1 trapdoor easy no problems. 2 about rabbit and they have had 4 babies, FINALLY I made the mistake of adding ram horns 😡… still removing them to this day
I haven't had luck bought 6 helmet snails & while I was doing water changes outside I left them there all night & rhamshorn snails are the worst not doubt & Happy New year's
The snails were left outside?
Personally dont favour snails in my tank. Only snail I've kept is mystery snail. Have had some pest snails come in on live plants though but my yoyo loaches eat them. Happy new year Kasia. Great video, thank you
I think its totally fine to keep snail-free tanks 😊
@@CreativePetKeeping the mystery snail died, polluted the water and I struggled with water parameters so decided no more snails from that point. Plus had a ramshorn infestation at one point hence the yoyo loaches. Wont deny some snail species are very beautiful to look at though and very entertaining to watch at times
Hi Kasia, let me start off by wishing you and the family a happy and safe new year. Quick question with regards to mystery snails, with shell pitting even after adding wonder shells all I can do is slow it down. Any suggestions, thank you from NYC
Check your PH. Pitting isn’t just from lack of calcium. If your PH is acidic, their shells will start to dissolve.
Thank you Kasia
Thanks for the video!
I have many bladder snails multiplying in my small 10g tank. I saw some small bladder snails. I am quite old and poor eye sight. I have one seemingly stupid question. If I remove those small snails manually and fail to notice some sticking on my hands and touch my face will it goes into my ear and breed inside?
My betta fish ate my massive snails and the baby ones, ive tried so many different species he just eats them all
I keep nerites in my tank, they do a great job at eating algae. And the little ghost shrimp I keep eat the eggs or deter them from laying them I think because ever since I started keeping shrimp in the tank too, I see hardly ANY eggs and they used to be all over the place if I had nerites for very long. I'm just lucky my betta fish is relatively low aggression, he goes after the zebra nerites a bit but not too bad, ignores the olive nerites for the most part. I guess he notices the stripes more. He was aggressive with the shrimp at first but they mostly ignore him and don't run so he's lost interest. I love having a little clean up crew in my tank. I give new plants a bleach dip or use snail zap
I've never kept nerite snails with shrimp before. That's a really cool observation! I have a rock full of nerite eggs..Im going to put it in with my cherry shrimp and see if they eat them as I don't have any ghost shrimp atm. It will be a fun experiment.
@@CreativePetKeeping Please let us know what happens! I am avoiding keeping nerite snails because of their eggs. Would live to know if cherry shrimp eat them.
@@CreativePetKeeping I haven't seen them do it but I noticed some of the eggs that were in there are gone. I don't know if they're eating them or what but I have definitely noticed almost no new eggs since adding shrimp
@@CreativePetKeeping my other theory is that the shrimp make the snails feel just insecure enough to not lay eggs. Like there's potential predators around. But I really don't know. I just know since I added shrimp, I haven't had to scrape nerite eggs off everything every other week
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I love big snail populations in my aquaria! Excellent food to raise glowworm larvae...
How exactly do you keep gloworms? As an invertebrate keeper keeping them seems quite interesting
Thats cool! Ive never kept gloworms before
@@apss5736 Well, it depends on the species, but for the genus Lampyris (and maybe Luciola with terrestrial larvae) I have a good method. There are some videos on my channel about it.
Otherwise, lampyrids are basically absent from the invert hobby. But it seems that bioluminescent click beetles are slowly entering the keeper community in the USA...
I love snails
happy New Years !
Happy new year!!
Zombie, alien, roomba...that is probably the best way to describe a snail
Best comment ever 😄
Happy New year 🎉🎉🎊🎊
Happy new year to you as well!! 🥰
My betta loves hunting for pink baby ramshorn snails, he keeps the population down. 😅
i just intruded a snale and beta and 3 guppys to a small 5 galon that has some plants i put in it. the snail was going up a stem of watercress and the beta saw it moving while exploring the tank and watched it super close then bit the lil guy lmaoooo. the snail is still ok though.
I think it depends on the snails, and the betta.
I have one betta I can't have snails with because a mystery snail munched on his bottom fin. But I have them with others with no problems like that. I also have one betta that likes to beat up his mystery snails. So, total I keep 17 bettas and only have 2 diffrent problems 😂
Those are some good points! All individual bettas and even snails are different.
my betta eats snails. You hear a crack when he lunges for it and then like chewing sound i guess and the empty shell falls to the substrate. its cool
Nice video
Thank you!
My betta I think he’s eating them snails
Hello from Philippines
Hi!
@@CreativePetKeeping Happy New year 🎉🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉
Though I need plant eating snails I am over run with salvinia & duckweed
I like to feed duckweed to my Placidochromis cichlids but I heard goldfish are great for eating it as well.
Mystery snails eat duckweed
my favourite snail is apple snail its easy to control there population
I have not tried keeping apple snails yet but I would like to
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My betta eats any snails that fit in his mouth 🤣
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Snails are good, they eat the algae.
i think im in love with u :P
You so 😅😅
I hope you liked this video ^_^ here are some more fun topics to watch:
Top 5 ❌DON'T do this to your betta: ua-cam.com/video/C2plCUUUnhw/v-deo.html
Adding a GIANT betta to my community tank!: ua-cam.com/video/rCHrK-50JoE/v-deo.html
🔥 IS YOUR BETTA WATER TOO HOT? ua-cam.com/video/vHeQUdDarDs/v-deo.html