I have an apple snail and a ramshorn...........and a breakout of ICH.

I dont want to put the snails in another tank if they are carriers of ICH (ARE THEY??).......


Can they live for awhile in a rubbermaid tub while I'm treating for ICH?

I have my snails in a small plastic container with a lid with holes poked in it. Its all I had. Theyve been in it 3 days and theyre ok. I just change the water ever night and put their lettuce in to float on top. I think they would definitely be ok in a tub!! I also have ick in my tanks. ARGH!!! I hope you can get it under control!

Hi Tinker,sorry to hear about the Ick probs. From what I've researched,Ick is a fish thing.I have read that snails not only don't get Ick,but that they don't carry it either. Go ahead and move htose guys-a Rubbermaid or another tank,should be fine. Good luck!

snails can and do carry ich just isolate them in a tank with no fish, and ich will die off without a fish to host it

Smack,Where did you get that info from? I read on Apple Snail.net from Donya herself,that they don't. :unsure:They don't get Ick or host it theirselves,but they can be in water that has them-which then you'd have to thoroughly rinse them off to make sure that they were free,and then they'd be fine.Donya did say that Marissa's were better off being Q'ted,only because they are able to hold water in their shells.

hmm....im confusing myself.

snails can be in water with fish taht have ich. the ich's can stay on the snails (without harming the snails) and if the snail is moved to another tank, the ich will go with it and infect the new tank.

So if a snail has ich's on it, and you isolate it in a tank without fish, the ich will die off without a fish to host on to, since the ich's cannot host on a snail.