I think kuhli loaches or horse head loaches might wipe out your snails
without disrupting your garden. I have a pair of horsehead loaches which
eat snail eggs and very small snails, but which never ever disturb the
plants. They are quite small and inconspicuous - entire weeks go by that I
don't even see them.

Marvin Hlavac wrote in message
gers.com...
After a couple of weeks of ignoring the problem now I have hundreds of
small
snails in my 90g and I just noticed there are eggs all over my lawn of
micro
sword. In desperation today I purchased 25 Amano Shrimps.

Three questions:

1. Will the shrimps help me?

2. Is there some chemical solution that would not harm my fish (mostly
Cardinals) and not harm my plants (mostly sword plants)

3. I'd rather avoid getting some large fish to my tank to kill these
intruders.
I'm afraid a large fish could damage the aquascape. But perhaps I'm wrong
and
getting a proper fish to do this dirty job is my only chance. What fish
would be
appropriate, if any?

--
Marvin
hlavac (at) rogers (dot) com