does sand substrate bother a snail?

[slroo]

I never thought about it before I bought one, but now he's here and the sand is clumping onto all his sticky bits. looks painful. Is it harmful?

 

[MyCatsDrool]

Mine love it. It is just thier slime coat. they are ok =)

 

[hc8719]

salt water snails (except astrea) along with fw trumpet snails prefer it

 

[slroo]

oh okay. He's a gold mystery snail. Glad to hear he'll be alright.

Now my betta seems a little too interested though...

 

[theotheragentm]

The sand is fine. I have a Gold Mystery Snail and sand substrate. The Betta may get nippy. Keep an eye on them.

 

[hsherman1986]

my mts population in my 20g is booming right now, and I have a very fine white sand substrate. They LOVE it!

 

[Jarred Darque]

I use tahitian black in my 75 gallon. and have literally hundreds of apples (they breed..alot, I get an egg cluster every 5 days (1 male 3 female adults) the substrate has never seemed to hinder them, and the apples actually outcompete the MTSs and pond snails for food..so much that I have almost no pond snail population outside my fiulter box and my MTS population ahs taken a serious hit.