Brackish Inverts?

[nmonks]

Hi Boxermom --

This is my thing. It's happened once. When I was a kid, my mom broke her tooth on a candy bar. Doesn't make candy bars dangerous. Stuff happens.

Compared with other snails, Malayan livebearers are incredibly easy to raise, and they do well in both fresh and brackish water, so they don't die uneaten. Tank-bred stocks don't carry parasites (a potential risk with snails collected in the wild or raised outdoors).

It's a case of balancing the risk, I suppose. People drive their kids to school (with a measurable risk of a motor accident) because they are scared some child-murder is going to snatch their kids up if they walked on their own (something with a virtually zero chance of happening). The way people view risk is completely non-scientific and a fertile field of study for psychologists and mathematicians.

But until I hear that Malayan livebearing snails regularly cause tooth damage, I'm open to persuasion, just not convinced right now.

Cheers,

Neale

I've seen someone post elsewhere that his puffer broke his beak on an MTS. I won't use them in any of my puffer tanks for that reason. Its not worth the risk to me, especially since there are other types that are readily available, as well as other hard-shelled foods they can have besides snails.