Do common pond snails eat fish eggs?

johnpeezy · 06-25-2008, 02:55 PM

anyone know?
I have a major outbreak of pond snails in my apisto gramma tank. If they eat eggs I will have to eradicate them....by putting them in my puffer tank

rich311k · 06-25-2008, 06:32 PM

They eat cory eggs so I would say yes.

Roan · 06-25-2008, 09:32 PM

Yes, they do.

Roan

joephys · 06-26-2008, 11:12 AM

They apistos guard their eggs though, and they may keep the snails away, but I don't know for sure about that. The problem is, you won't get all of the snails out. You might think you did, but there are almost always some hiding somewhere.

johnpeezy · 06-26-2008, 11:26 AM

Yeah I know I can't get em all out but I can get a decent ammount out.

I was trying to mess with my water chemistry in order to get viable eggs from my apistogramma, dropped down to about 6.8 and WHAM!! snail explosion. The snail population quadrupled over night, so if it worked for the snails I hope if worked for the apistos too.

TwoTankAmin · 06-26-2008, 08:12 PM

My experience has been the pond snails leave eggs alone. I have never seen them eat cory eggs and I know they dont eat pleco eggs. But I could be wrong.

Mr Aquarium · 06-27-2008, 12:20 AM

If you can move the the fish to a different tank,
that is your best shot of ridding it of snails...
I have a 20g that is/was so infested it wasn't funny....
wasn't breading anything in it but they trashed a gallon bag of water sprite in less then a week......and every other thing that was green...
but i have starved them out and killed off a ton of them so far...

Now If I remember right, when I was letting the brichardi breed in tht tank, I had some of these snails then....and it didn;t seem to damper the population explostion of the fish at all, before I knew it I had near 100 of the darn things...fish that is.

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johnpeezy Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 409	Do common pond snails eat fish eggs? anyone know? I have a major outbreak of pond snails in my apisto gramma tank. If they eat eggs I will have to eradicate them....by putting them in my puffer tank

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Roan Baroness von Bowhead Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Herdon, VA Posts: 448	Yes, they do. Roan __________________ Rainbowfish: Know your streams and keep them clean! Got rainbowfish? We do! http://Bowheads.org/forums/ Bowheads! No bull, just bows. It's about bows by the bowheads who keep them.

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TwoTankAmin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Westchester Co., NY Posts: 724	My experience has been the pond snails leave eggs alone. I have never seen them eat cory eggs and I know they dont eat pleco eggs. But I could be wrong. __________________ Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.

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Mr Aquarium Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Eastern Iowa Posts: 168	If you can move the the fish to a different tank, that is your best shot of ridding it of snails... I have a 20g that is/was so infested it wasn't funny.... wasn't breading anything in it but they trashed a gallon bag of water sprite in less then a week......and every other thing that was green... but i have starved them out and killed off a ton of them so far... Now If I remember right, when I was letting the brichardi breed in tht tank, I had some of these snails then....and it didn;t seem to damper the population explostion of the fish at all, before I knew it I had near 100 of the darn things...fish that is. __________________ People who drink light "beer" don't really like beer; they just like to pee a lot.

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06-25-2008, 06:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
rich311k Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 281	They eat cory eggs so I would say yes.

06-26-2008, 11:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
joephys Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: auburn, wa Posts: 4,393	They apistos guard their eggs though, and they may keep the snails away, but I don't know for sure about that. The problem is, you won't get all of the snails out. You might think you did, but there are almost always some hiding somewhere.

06-26-2008, 11:26 AM	#5 (permalink)
johnpeezy Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 409	Yeah I know I can't get em all out but I can get a decent ammount out. I was trying to mess with my water chemistry in order to get viable eggs from my apistogramma, dropped down to about 6.8 and WHAM!! snail explosion. The snail population quadrupled over night, so if it worked for the snails I hope if worked for the apistos too.

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