Newts and Nerite Snails?

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I'd like to get a few nerite snails to put into my Blue tailed Fire Newts tank to help with algae control. Would this be okay or would the newts try to eat the snails? I'll try to get as large a snail as I can.
 
They should be fine, I have loads of snails in with my C. pyrrho's, they do a great job cleaning up along with the shrimp. The newts do eat them from time to time, in fact the juveniles I have went through a period of obsessive snail eating and almost wiped them out in their tank!
 
Chinadog said:
They should be fine, I have loads of snails in with my C. pyrrho's, they do a great job cleaning up along with the shrimp. The newts do eat them from time to time, in fact the juveniles I have went through a period of obsessive snail eating and almost wiped them out in their tank!
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Would they eat Nerite snails?? They seem pretty big for a newt. I'd think if a newt tried to eat it the newt probably wouldn't survive it.

What kind of shrimp do you keep with your newts?
 
As you know the snails reproduce very quickly so the newts will eat the young snails once they reach a certain size. They don't eat them that often now, but when they do they swallow them whole.
I have Cherry, Green and Japonica shrimps at the moment, The newts really love eating shrimps but they can't catch them very often, they do spend hours stalking them, though!
 
Chinadog said:
As you know the snails reproduce very quickly so the newts will eat the young snails once they reach a certain size. They don't eat them that often now, but when they do they swallow them whole.
I have Cherry, Green and Japonica shrimps at the moment, The newts really love eating shrimps but they can't catch them very often, they do spend hours stalking them, though!
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Actually I don't think the Nerite Snails reproduce all that easily. I think they need to be in brackish water to reproduce so that shouldn't be a problem. I will have to see if I can get some types of shrimp.
 
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