Snails in my 10 gallon?

[Tomas]

Right now I have 4 blood eyed tetras in my tank( if sadly died a few weeks ago ) Anyways, I don't have any live plants in my tank, but, I do want to get a few snails in there. Is it a good idea? If I can't get those, could I get anything else like that, its kind of boring just with the 4 tetras in there

~Chaz

 

[bigredspecial]

you could definately get snails, provided they don't get too large, IE, no apple snails.

There are a lot of other things you could get that would be interesting, such as African Dwarf frogs, or shrimp.

 

[Tomas]

How would the snails survive with no real plants?

 

[Guysy1110]

they never really eat plants unless they are dying plants, then they will eat it.

I used to feed mine boiled brocolli and cucumber, anything green they will eat

 

[bigredspecial]

they never really eat plants unless they are dying plants, then they will eat it.

Not true!! I believed that, untill I learned the truth the hard way!
This is what a Apple snail can do to a tank(Or, what one DID do to mine).

 

[Helena21]

My apple snail ate all my plants and my java moss which i was growing on to my driftwood

 

[S-kate]

Why not an apple snail?

 

[Mahamotorworks]

I have seen Apple snails eat living plants. If you want some smaller snails I have some Ram horns that I will give you. You will have to pay for shipping & handling but that would only be $6.00. I had a ram horn in my tank for a long time never bothered my plants. I Got the ones I have now with some plants that I bought. They have multiplied.

MAHA

 

[S-kate]

He said he doesn't have any real plants. I'd go with an apple snail since they don't reproduce like pond snails.

 

[bigredspecial]

The only reason I advised against an apple snail is the size - It can be done, but a 4" snail is a lot of bioload for a 10 to handle.

 

[IDunnoWhy]

If you opt to get a snail, I'd advise against the garden variety "Pond Snail" it will multiply faster than you can imagine, 3 or 4 can be 24 or more before you know it. I know this first hand

This is all well and good if your feeding puffers or something, but to the "Average Joe" it's a real pain.

Someone before suggested a ADF or maybe a few small shrimp, I agree, it'll add some fun to the tank, with manageable bio-load.