Malaysian Snail Info

[Nevergone815]

mods, if you can move this post to the proper spot as i am not sure where to put it i would appreciate it

ok here is my question... i have heard from multiple people that malaysian snails will eat anything on the bottom of the tank. this includes leftover food, algae (from side of glass) and fish waste (poop). i know for fact that they will eat the algae ans left over food, but do they really eat fish poop?

if so that would be great and save me time on cleaning the tank so often. fish poop is the main cause of this

 

[Torrean]

I have a question to add to this. do MTS eat other snails?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

i have a question to add on to the question that was just added do MTS eat their own poop?

 

[Nevergone815]

are you guys being serious or sarcastic? i really don't know and i don't want to get the wrong thing and i definately don't want to get a snail if i don't have to. so any real help i can get would be great!

 

[Torrean]

I'm being completely serious. I've heard it before but I can't remember where. I wish I could help you more.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

As far as i know they wont eat fish poop- they'd quite literally rather eat their own young rather than poo .
You should only need to to do a 30% water change and subtrate cleaning session once a week, with a quick filter semi-cleanout in tank water once every 10days-2weeks+ .

 

[Dorkhedeos]

well, i was being sarcastic. i was just trying to make you realize that even if they did eat fish poop, there will still be snail poop. it wont be less work after the snails start pooping too much poop

 

[Nevergone815]

well i heard that from somewhere so i just decided to ask. i really don't like snails and didn't want to get them. that was going ot be my only reason for getting them. i might go with amano or ghost shrimp. i heard that they not only eat algae, they eat leftover food, and they also eat deritrus (sp) (the nasty stuff that breaks down from fish waste and left over foods)