Help! Will My Shrimp And Snail Fight To Death?

A sibling of mine found a baby apple/mystery snail on a log, in a lake near my house. She decided to put it in a cup to look at it.

Then she decided to put it in a bucket to look at is closer.

Pretty soon it was living in a plastic kitty pool. With hundreds of live plants, outside. He never left the kitty pool, and she went out everyday last summer and took care of it, did water changes, everything you could imagine. He grew up to be a happy, big snail in his big pool.

Well when it began to become fall, she was convinced he needed a nice tank, so she put him in a 3 gallon aquarium. With an air stone. He has been living in it for 6 months now.

That’s the back story on the snail, but here’s my question. Could we put a couple ghost shrimp in with the snail? I was looking it up, and read horror stories about the shrimp attacking the snail, and vis versa. Does this actually happen? How many could I have in a 3 gallon?

 

I've never heard of that happening, pretty sure I've kept them with smaller ramshorn snails before. Maybe they were talking about the long-armed shrimps?

You could always keep some cherry shrimp with it Not sure if the 3G is really big enough for the snail though? It would be fine for a few dwarf shrimp on their own but if it's a big snail I'd probably get a bigger tank and add some other tank mates.

 

Is the 3 gallon too small? I can definitely get him a bigger tank in the next month or so. Will he be fine for now? Is that a no on the shrimp now? If they breed, I was going to put the babies in my bettas tank.

 

10 gallons is the recommended minimum for apple snails. I would go with a 20 gallon long so you could keep a community of fish with him.

 

Got it. My little sister is going to get a ten gallon when they go on sale, so he can be the first invertebrate in it!

 

Got it. My little sister is going to get a ten gallon when they go on sale, so he can be the first invertebrate in it!

Great! You can put a few fish in with him if you like. Endlers, celestail pearl danios, gold ring danios, Asian stone catfish, scarlet badis, sparkling gouramis, guppies or peacock gobies could all work.