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i have 3 kinds of snails in tanks ponds snail, trumpet, and ram and want something to eat them latly iv been fishing them out with a slice of cucumber tied to string i weight it down with a very small flower pot and i put the snails in a small plactic container and i smash them for live food once a week for the fish but i have alot in the container now that will last a while and theres more sill in the tanks i want it mostly for the 55g tank something that will eat them and not get to big

I always say get a small Clown Loach and when it has cleaned the tank either put it into a bigger tank or return it or even resell it.

Basically most Loaches will do the job "Yoyos" I believe are good and they will not grow too big, but they prefer to be in small schools of 4-6

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If your tank isn't big enough for clowns, or a school of Yo-Yo's then I can definitely recommend the Dwarf Chain loach if you can find it. They stay small (although again you need to keep them in a school of 5-6) and do a great job of removing the snails. However they can be difficult to find and quite expensive (but worth the effort and money in my opinion).

Ya know... I keep reading these posts about
folks who have large populations of snails, asking how
to get rid of them. Almost always, someone mentions one
of the snail eating fish. Thing is, what do you feed them
after the snails are gone and they are set in their ways?
Or, more to the point, what do you do with the fish when
they have served their purpose... give them back?

Thing is, snails, particularly the MTS don't over populate
as a rule. Their populations are controlled by the amount
of available food (hint).

Just wondering...
Frank


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Most if not all the common snail eating fish do not refuse to eat dry and frozen foods after having snails to munch on occasionally for a few weeks.