Can Fancy Goldfish eat Snails

[Palazzo21]

I have a few pond snails and rams horns in my new tank that I’m cycling for fancy goldfish. Should I get them out or can my goldfish eat them? 

[Nuggets Beard]

Yes they can.  If the snails will fit in their mouths they will eat them.  Adults should be fine.  You may not see a lot of baby snails though.  Having places the goldfish can't get to them will help.

[Palazzo21]

On 5/2/2022 at 3:12 AM, Nuggets Beard said:

Yes they can.  If the snails will fit in their mouths they will eat them.  Adults should be fine.  You may not see a lot of baby snails though.  Having places the goldfish can't get to them will help.

Well I was hoping they’d all die  😬

[Guppysnail]

If you remove the ones you see by hand your goldfish will clean up most of the rest.  Any remaining are a good source of environmental enrichment for your fish to hunt their own live food.  I would not stress, after your fish figure out they are food you will most likely almost never see them before they are consumed. 

[Brian]

I don’t know if they eat them or just harass them so much with the constant mouthing of the gravel that they just die.  
sorry I’m little to no help 

[GardenStateGoldfish]

They will eat the baby snails except for baby Malaysian trumpets unless they are very small. Pond bladder and rams will be eaten, some usually still make it to adulthood though so you can remove them by hand but I dunno why you would. I keep snails in every tank always, they are the best