Do I need to quarantine my mystery snail?

[DancingBetta]

Hi everyone.
I have one mystery snail in my forty gallon tank, but the guppies are constantly trying to eat her. I want to move the snail to a new tank. I don’t want/don’t have room to set up a new tank just for the snail. I’m planning on putting her with my betta, but do I need to quarantine her? My forty gallon is disease free.

 

[Slaphppy7]

Hi everyone.
I have one mystery snail in my forty gallon tank, but the guppies are constantly trying to eat her. I want to move the snail to a new tank. I don’t want/don’t have room to set up a new tank just for the snail. I’m planning on putting her with my betta, but do I need to quarantine her? My forty gallon is disease free.

No need to QT, but I've tried them with a single betta several times....sometimes it's fine, sometimes the betta will nip at the snail's eye stalks...you won't know until you try, and observe

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Hi everyone.
I have one mystery snail in my forty gallon tank, but the guppies are constantly trying to eat her. I want to move the snail to a new tank. I don’t want/don’t have room to set up a new tank just for the snail. I’m planning on putting her with my betta, but do I need to quarantine her? My forty gallon is disease free.

No, you don’t have to. I do warn you however, that bettas have been known to go after the antenna of the snail.

 

[DancingBetta]

Also, her shell has algae growing on it. Is that a problem?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

No, it’s completely normal. Some snails will come times crawl onto its shell and the algae. Pretty funny to watch.

 

[Sgooosh]

Also, her shell has algae growing on it. Is that a problem?

theres this one snail with a lot of black beard algae,
and when they killed the algae it turned pink...
it turned it into a rockstar punk snail

 

[DancingBetta]

So my betta isn’t trying to eat him, I don’t think he knows exactly what this strange creature is doing in his tank.

 

[Sgooosh]

So my betta isn’t trying to eat him, I don’t think he knows exactly what this strange creature is doing in his tank.

whenever i add my snails, they pick at them for a while and get used to it

 

[DancingBetta]

Uh oh…. There are baby Malaysian trumpet snails on her shell!

 

[Sgooosh]

Uh oh…. There are baby Malaysian trumpet snails on her shell!

its fine, sometimes my pest snails like to explore my big snails back

 

[DancingBetta]

I’m more worried about my tank being infested with them.

 

[DancingBetta]

They hitchhiked from my 40 gallon.

 

[itiwhetu]

No, you don’t have to. I do warn you however, that bettas have been known to go after the antenna of the snail.

Bettas are mean, why do you love them so much.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

I’m more worried about my tank being infested with them.

That'll only happen if you don't look after your tank properly. Keep it clean-ish and don't ever over-feed.

 

[Slaphppy7]

That'll only happen if you don't look after your tank properly. Keep it clean-ish and don't ever over-feed.

I keep my 10G clean, it's heavily planted, and I feed every other day, or every third day...and the MTS population has exploded over time