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Live snail in tank?

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mary

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Hi there, just wondered if anyone had ever successfully had a big snail living with axies?
my friend bought one to live in her goldfish tank. I thought it would be great to keep the walls clean but then wondered if the axies would try to gobble it- such a slow moving snail would surely not be prey?
 
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lorie

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My axie has snails in with her. She doesn't try to eat them or anything coz i keep her well fed lol.
 
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jennifer

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Many people have kept axies with large snails. However, here is an old post that illustrates the risk. I have no idea if this risk is large or small, but i have heard of something similar happening with a newt also.


"I recently acquired 4 axolotls. Ranging from 1 1/2" to 2 1/2". I also raise apple snails. Apple snails have an operculum or door to their shell that they retract inside when they pull in their foot. The operculum is made of the same material as the shell and therfore
hard with sharp edges.
After settling the axolotls into their tank with a few apple snails, I left them alone for about 30 minutes, and when I returned, the largest axolotl (also my only leucistic) had its head inside one of the snails. This particular snail was around 3" in diameter. What probably happened was that when the axolotl investigated, the snail tried to close up into its shell.
Well I pulled the shell open enough to get the axolotl out and the operculum had cut its throat, of course killing my axolotl."
Text taken from:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/7618/11821.html?1079283121
 
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amber

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At the moment, my axolotl is living with a snail.
Besides being an object of interest, they've shown no aggression to each other.
Mind you, the apple is a Brig, only 1" wide.
Cana apples are MUCH bigger, and have sharp teeth to boot.
(I do own one, Big Momma, and believe you me, being chewed by a 3.5in monster is NOT fun.)

The only problem I've had with snails so far is when I kept Malaysian Trumpets in with the 'Lotl - the Malaysians like meats, and tried to bite her tail.

I removed them to my snailtank, and I've not had problems since.
 
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mary

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that poor Axie having cut its throat!!! we had a shell with sharp edges ( unbeknownst to us) - until the axie went inside the shell and scraped a big chunk out of its tail- has never grown back fully..
 
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shaun

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My axies are in with an apple snail. They bit off it's antennae, but apart from that, they get on fine. If It becomes a nuisance, I'll put it in with my fishes.
 
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