Tom L. La Bron wrote:
Ingird,

I can not believe the misinformation that you give out all the time.
You want to blame snails for just about everything.

The temperate version of Black spot disease has a secondary host as a
Mollusk not a snail, the tropical form of black spot disease is
associated with a specific snail that occurs in Malaysia but has made
its way to isolated areas of Florida due to the tropical fish trade.
The other forms of Black spot disease are associated with Marine
(sal****er) Cold water fish, Marine (sal****er) tropical fish and
probably do not need to be discussed here on the Goldfish list.

Golly geee.

One of these days you might think about doing some reading before you
start relating this misinformation.

Tom L.L.
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wrote:

look up black spot disease of fish, among other diseases carried by
snails. more
diseases are known in humans, a more intense area of scientific
investigation.
Ingrid


Tom,
I agree with you. I have and had alot of apple snails for years. I am a
fan of www.applesnail.net I'm not to crazy of the pest snails ie
tadpoles, red ramshorn but having all of these I never had a fish catch
anything from them. Only problem I had once was my Goldfish got a red
ramshorn caught in his mouth, I picked him up and gently worked the
snail out of his mouth, that really scared me. But after awhile all the
snails disapeared. I assume the fish ate the small snails and eggs. I
picked the big ones out and I never keep my apple snails with my
goldfish cause he will try and get thier "feelers" Or knock them off the
glass.

kay