SNAILS on plants
I picked up some snails on the last introduction of plants into the
tank... What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? Thanks |
SNAILS on plants
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What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? IMHO you can invite to your tank: Botia sidthimunki: http://www.loaches.com/species_pages...thimunki.shtml or Botia dario: http://www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_dario.shtml -- Regards / Pozdrawiam Bartek Lipczynski www.infofarm.com.pl/~bartek |
SNAILS on plants
Yoyo loaches (lohachata botia) ate my tank clean of snails and don't bother
the plants at all (java fern, dwarf sagittaria, ozelot sword). I'm breeding snails in another tank because my yoyos eat them too fast. And the yoyo are lots of fun to watch (like fishy kittens). "Greg Dalton" wrote in message ... I picked up some snails on the last introduction of plants into the tank... What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? Thanks |
SNAILS on plants
I have two lohachatas who used to specialize in uprooting plants,
particularly newly planted vals, sags and stem cuttings. I exiled them to a 2 1/2 gallon nursery tank for a couple of months and they've been much better behaved since I let them come home. Daryn wrote in message ... Yoyo loaches (lohachata botia) ate my tank clean of snails and don't bother the plants at all (java fern, dwarf sagittaria, ozelot sword). I'm breeding snails in another tank because my yoyos eat them too fast. And the yoyo are lots of fun to watch (like fishy kittens). "Greg Dalton" wrote in message ... I picked up some snails on the last introduction of plants into the tank... What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? Thanks |
SNAILS on plants
In article , Greg Dalton
writes: What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? Freshwater pufferfish will eat snails, but you may have a hard time with fish compatibility. I'm trying to see if my LFS can get a hold of some dwarf pufferfish (they supposedly grow no larger than 2" long) and am planning to commit a 10 gallon tank to them. This way I'll have my "snail processing" tank where I can throw in the excess snails from all of my other tanks. They appealed to me be because they are so small (I would like to have gotten clown loaches, but they would probably get too big for my 20 and I don't want to overstock my 55), and because they just look cool. :) They apparently like planted areas, too, but we'll see. Erica http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/mitoem/mitoem/index.htm |
SNAILS on plants
Let me amend my statement, please change
"my yoyos don't bother the plants at all" to "yoyos don't eat the plants at all, but they dig them up quite often" "kush" wrote in message ... I have two lohachatas who used to specialize in uprooting plants, particularly newly planted vals, sags and stem cuttings. I exiled them to a 2 1/2 gallon nursery tank for a couple of months and they've been much better behaved since I let them come home. Daryn wrote in message ... Yoyo loaches (lohachata botia) ate my tank clean of snails and don't bother the plants at all (java fern, dwarf sagittaria, ozelot sword). I'm breeding snails in another tank because my yoyos eat them too fast. And the yoyo are lots of fun to watch (like fishy kittens). "Greg Dalton" wrote in message ... I picked up some snails on the last introduction of plants into the tank... What are some good fish that I can add (or one fish) that will eat the snails but leave the plants alone?? Thanks |
SNAILS on plants
Yoyo loaches (lohachata botia) ate my tank clean of snails and don't
bother the plants at all (java fern, dwarf sagittaria, ozelot sword). I'm breeding snails in another tank because my yoyos eat them too fast. And the yoyo are lots of fun to watch (like fishy kittens). I heard that they (yoyo) are good at eating Shrimps too. Isn't? -- Thank You Dominic http://www.dlink.org/aqua |
SNAILS on plants
Aqua wrote ....
I heard that they (yoyo) are good at eating Shrimps too. I would expect that them to. They either eat or annoy-to-death everything very much slower and smaller than themselves. I have a couple of ghosties in with mine now, but my botias are very old, fat and nearsighted and may not realize they're there. Nevertheless, shrimp (or anything else) could never reproduce in a tank with botias. -- * * * * * "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume |
SNAILS on plants
kush wrote ... I would expect that them to. Stop me, before I type again! * * * * * "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume |
SNAILS on plants
LeighMo wrote ...
They can with Botia macracanthus. My clown loaches ... Right, got it, I should stick to what I know about. I should have said yoyo botias. Before I knew better, I had my yoyos in a guppy tank for a while. I couldn't figure out why I never saw any baby guppies until I realized that the yoyos were swimming along right behind the female guppies eating the fry as they were born. -- * * * * * "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " -Benjamin Franklin "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself. " -Marlene Dietrich |
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