John Thomas wrote:

1) I've never seen it devouring plants. It's currently in an all
plastic tank.

Bear in mind that its behavior with plastic plants has nothing to do
with how it will treat live plants. While snails respond well to
chemical signals (mine always seemed to know when, and where, I'd
dropped their food) they probably lack the brain power required to
equate a plastic ornament with a live plant.

I think your plan to buy some cheap plants is the best approach. Try to
get very healthy plants, though, as most snails will eat dying leaves
and such.

I've only oberved it hogging all the fish food. It's more like
a composter thana lawnmower.

That sounds like a bridgesii.

This sort of thing is what makes keeping fish interesting for me. The
surprising part is that so far, the inverts (snails and shrimp) have
been a lot more interesting than the fish.

My bettas are the most interesting critters I've got, though the tank
full of bluegills I very stupidly set up may beat them - very
personable and entertaining fish!

But yeah, I agree that the inverts are very cool. Next time I hit a pet
store I plan on restocking my ghost shrimp population. I gave up on the
apple snails because mine were breeding out of control and tank
maintenance was becoming a nightmare. But they were pretty groovy. I
even had some hydra at one point, which I found really interesting.


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