Thread: Snail Control
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Old 25-04-2003, 07:56 AM
redled
 
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Default Snail Control

"Robert Flory" wrote in
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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?

Yoyos and Botia Histrionica do a good job. Neither of them are
trouble makes in my tanks. My yoyos are up to 3.5" since I got them.
Shouldn't get over 5".

Thanks. I'll look into those.