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| My local Petsmart sells what are called 'gold mystery snails' and I wanted to ask if these are safe to have with live plants or will they eat them? Thank you.
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From what I have learned they our safer then plecos. I will tell you that I tried one and it died within the first day I got it. I wondered if it was because my angelfish decided to peck at it so much that it did not have time to search for food. Now that I have plants I accidentally got pond snails with them. These snails have not eaten my plants. They are not very pretty though and are smaller then mystery snails. If anybody has an idea why my snail died please tell me.
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Mystery snails will not eat your plants, unless (which is extremely rare) you get a different species than what is normally sold under that name.
20 gallon long
Lionhead - Kiko
Calico Lionhead - Little Bean
29 gallon
Fantail - Oliver
Black Moor - Damian
Calico Ryukin - Serafina
2.5 gallon
male betta - Pirate
10 gallon planted
minnow, betta, guppy
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I don't believe that Mystery Snails will eat your plants. In my experience though I find it hard to keep them alive. I don't know if my tank is just not set up right for them or what but they usually don't last longer than 2 weeks in my tank.
My Tanks:15 gallon: 1 female red wag platy, 1 female sunburst play, 2 black skirted tetras, 1 plecosomas, 1 mystery snail 3 gallon: 1 male crowntail betta, 1 gold mystery snail 1 gallon cycleing: Hopefully crowntail female betta soon! Pond: 1 Map turtle, asorted minnows Other pets..... 3 rabbits, 2 red ear sliders, chickens, ducks, horse......
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Did you provide regular for them? These snails won't eat your plants, but they don't eat algae either. They need a steady diet of veggies high in calcium to be happy.
20 gallon long
Lionhead - Kiko
Calico Lionhead - Little Bean
29 gallon
Fantail - Oliver
Black Moor - Damian
Calico Ryukin - Serafina
2.5 gallon
male betta - Pirate
10 gallon planted
minnow, betta, guppy
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