I have had great success with Pakistani Loaches (Yo-Yo), I have a few bigger
snails which they don't seem to touch.

I did have one problem with them: I had so many snails that they were
killing them without eating the entire snail, this in turn caused a "slight
emergency" with polluted water. I only realised this when I noticed dozens
of half eaten snails floating on the surface.
It should be noted that I had a "snail plague", the gravel in the tank
appeared to move there were so many!!!!

I now drop in a few shrimp pallets every now and then to make up for the
lack of snails.


"redled" wrote in message
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OK, I can't pick out the pond snails by hand anymore. Here is the
situation: heavily planted 55 gallon community tank. The smallest things
in it are amano shrimp and pygmy cories (1"). I need something to control
the snails, prefereably something that won't eat those guys I just
mentioned. Also, I have a large ramshorn snail I'd like to keep and
hundreds of MTS that I would really like to keep (I think the population
is
healthy enough that It would be hard to get rid of them, though.) Now,
here are the best ideas that I've come up with:
1) Lots of ghost shrimp. Will these eat snail eggs?
2) Some kind of small loach. I'm having a hard time finding specific
references to non-clown loaches abilities to do this. How are kuhlie
loaches?
3) Dwarf puffers. Actaully I had them, but I like to take every
oppurtunity I can to say these are NOT community fishies, unless you
really
know what you're doing. There's not many good tankmates for these guys.
4) Any other ideas? I'm open to anything.
Anyways, thanks in advance