Cory Catfish Eat Snails

Fully grown shrimp and snails are too big to fit in a cories mouth.

Cory catfish eat snails.

Cory catfish tank mates can be amano shrimp red cherry shrimp and ghost shrimp. The catfish are also mostly peaceful hence make good companions for shrimp and snails. As for eating snails these fish will not eat snails. The other day when i was watching them swim i noticed two different pygmy cory s swim up to a baby snail and eat it right out of the shell.

However they may eat or damage snail eggs. Put some vegies in and the snails will be all over it in the night and then remove it with snails and all. Betta fish bala fish green spotted puffer goldfish clown loach gourami cory catfish yoyo loach. Do cory catfish eat snails and shrimp no most cory catfish species won t eat shrimp and snails especially if the inverts are adult size.

Some eat small snails while some only eat snails in their adult stage. Note that my corys are albino and thus either blind or close to it they are not hunting by sight so they must either feel or smell whatever it is they are eating. Freshwater snails can include gold inca snails ivory snails mystery snails ramshorn snails pond snails malaysian trumpet snails rabbit snails japanese trapdoor snails and nerite snails. When there are snails in the aquarium and the population seems to drop most people would assume it s the cory catfish eating them.

Cories start with eating them then when the food comes they give up on the snails for real food. Cory cats should not be kept with cichlids or aquarium crayfish. Freshwater fishes that eat snails include. Clearly the fish are too small to eat even a mid sized ramshorn snail but when it comes to baby snails it appears they re snack food.

Do cory catfish eat snails. Cory catfish are i ndustrious scavengers and will eat just about anything on the aquarium floor. The other usual culprit is the loaches. Bottom line while they can be considered part of your tank s clean up crew they ll need a little help from snails shrimp and other scavengers.