Wow. My snail ate my fish :(

gosu-pk · 10-06-2006, 10:14 PM

I'm not exactly sure what type it is, I just bought it off the petshop I work at

Its a tiny black fish that looks like a guppy fish but with a fancy looking fin tail, and it looks pregnant but its not
When I got home from work, all the fish were okay, but after a few minutes I checked my tank and the black fish was being sucked on by the golden inca snail.

Is this unusual to have a snail eat your fish?

The snail also has alot of "fun" with the other golden inca snail in there if that matters

Zoe · 10-06-2006, 10:36 PM

I would think that probably the fish died and the snail was scavenging.

locojay · 10-06-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Zoe

I would think that probably the fish died and the snail was scavenging.

That's what I was thinking, but he or she said all the fish were fine a few minutes before this. Maybe it just wasn't noticed the first time.

Zoe · 10-06-2006, 11:03 PM

Yeah, but it's happened to me that a fish looks fine then just turns up dead. Now, I would probably be able to tell the cause but back "in the day" I wouldn't have known and would have thought it just seemed "fine" up until it died.

Anyway, I've never heard of a snail eating a live fish. I can't imagine it even being able to catch a fish.

gosu-pk · 10-07-2006, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Zoe

Yeah, but it's happened to me that a fish looks fine then just turns up dead. Now, I would probably be able to tell the cause but back "in the day" I wouldn't have known and would have thought it just seemed "fine" up until it died.

Anyway, I've never heard of a snail eating a live fish. I can't imagine it even being able to catch a fish.

I thought the same

But how I think it got it was because the black tiny fish always stays on the bottom and lays on the rocks, and my snails move pretty fast for snails, lol

CaysE · 10-07-2006, 01:04 PM

If the fish was staying on the bottom, it probably wasn't healthy. Do you know what the name of the fish is?

**Damon** · 10-07-2006, 02:29 PM

Can fish have heart attacks or strokes?

flamingo · 10-07-2006, 02:44 PM

It was probably just eating it after it died like already said. In the fishr realm..there are very few actual carnivourous snails that seek out fish. Even when they do, it's only at night when the fish aren't active.

10-06-2006, 10:14 PM	#1
gosu-pk Fishy Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 16	Wow. My snail ate my fish :( I'm not exactly sure what type it is, I just bought it off the petshop I work at Its a tiny black fish that looks like a guppy fish but with a fancy looking fin tail, and it looks pregnant but its not When I got home from work, all the fish were okay, but after a few minutes I checked my tank and the black fish was being sucked on by the golden inca snail. Is this unusual to have a snail eat your fish? The snail also has alot of "fun" with the other golden inca snail in there if that matters

10-06-2006, 10:36 PM	#2
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,030	I would think that probably the fish died and the snail was scavenging. __________________ 90g pltd: angelfish [black, leopard, platinum, silver zebra & gold vt] · glass catfish · harlequin rasbora · neon & rummy nosed tetra · sterpai & spotted cory · bristlenose pleco 28g pltd: scarlet badis · oto cats · bristlenose 16g pltd: flame & honey gourami · cherry barbs 8g (soon to be 18g): 15 lbs LR · 10 lbs LS · YSP · zoas · shrooms · flame & hammer corals · brittle star · scarlet & electric blue hermits · firefish

10-06-2006, 11:03 PM	#4
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,030	Yeah, but it's happened to me that a fish looks fine then just turns up dead. Now, I would probably be able to tell the cause but back "in the day" I wouldn't have known and would have thought it just seemed "fine" up until it died. Anyway, I've never heard of a snail eating a live fish. I can't imagine it even being able to catch a fish. __________________ 90g pltd: angelfish [black, leopard, platinum, silver zebra & gold vt] · glass catfish · harlequin rasbora · neon & rummy nosed tetra · sterpai & spotted cory · bristlenose pleco 28g pltd: scarlet badis · oto cats · bristlenose 16g pltd: flame & honey gourami · cherry barbs 8g (soon to be 18g): 15 lbs LR · 10 lbs LS · YSP · zoas · shrooms · flame & hammer corals · brittle star · scarlet & electric blue hermits · firefish

10-07-2006, 01:04 PM	#6
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10-07-2006, 02:44 PM	#8
flamingo One Word: Croutons. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wisconsin Age: 17 Posts: 1,899	It was probably just eating it after it died like already said. In the fishr realm..there are very few actual carnivourous snails that seek out fish. Even when they do, it's only at night when the fish aren't active. __________________ If you put "u" instead of typing out the actual, shocking, three letter word... i'm not going to read your ramblings. I'm so behind it's not even funny.

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