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its really not a problem, just prefer not to see snails in the tank. i think all of them are MTS, i could be wrong because some do come out during the day (very little though)

i have some ghost shrimps, algae eating shrimps and amano shrimps in the tank and hope to add cherry reds later. what fish will eat the snails and leave the shrimps alone?

i think most loaches do eat both snails and shrimps so that is out of the question, same thing with puffers. i read that upside down cats will eat snails? is that true? what about varies types of gouramis?

You're not really going to find any fish that will eat MTS. They're renowned for having very hard shells. You're better off either learning to live with them or trying the old lettuce trick.

thanks for the reply joe.

i have tried dwarf puffer before and it stopped the MTS come out during the day. now i just removed the puffer to avoid damages to other fish and shrimps in the future, sure enough the MTS started coming out during the day now too. many people have told me that even a dwarf puffer would do damage to its tank mates. i have yet to witness this, but i really dont want to either

Hi,
Unless the tank is over crowded with snails, or the
substrate is packed too tightly for them to work their
way around under the surface, or the environment (substrate)
is too foul with debris, the MTS are only rarely seen
during the daylight hours. At night, that is a different
story, they will come out at night.

A through cleaning with a vacuum cleaning siphon such as
the Python brand will clean the substrate, and remove
many of the smaller MTS, thus thinning the population.

Actually, one really wants that snail as they are very
efficient in cleaning the substrate and aerating it.

Frank


-->>> The Confidence of Amateurs, is the Envy of Professionals <<<--

not disagreeing with frank, but the downside is that if u have to many snails the ammonia spikes

Hi,
If the snails are MTS and you have more than a couple
out during the day, then you have a problem in the tank
and the snails are "escaping" or trying to. They naturally
come out at night when their predators are not around.
For them to risk life and limb during the daylight hours
something is wrong.

A through gravel vacuuming will help deplete the snail
population as the small ones will be sucked up and flushed
down the sink, thus eliminating the problem Ham has
mentioned.

Frank


-->>> The Confidence of Amateurs, is the Envy of Professionals <<<--

i have manually removed them at night by scraping the glass with some home-made scoop. caught a lot of them (probably hundreds) for the past 2 nights. now during the day i can spot less than 5 in the tank wandering around. but i will definitely vacuum the sand gravel a little more next time

does it make any difference if the gravel is pretty thick? i got about 3 inches or so of onyx sand

clown loach love snails

clown loach love snails

And shrimp. Hence, they wouldn't work here. Not to mention they won't touch MTS.

tricky situation indeed, having a puffer tank i have experimented with enough food that i think there is no doubt it could break the shell, but the shrimp.... seems like whatever eats snails probably eats shrimp to, what you could do it either remove snails by hand, or if you have another small tank to house the shrimp in a puffer would eradicate them, heck ship em out to me ill take some

i like feesh

you can make a trap and use algea waffers as bait....one design is to use plastic film caninsters and drill holes in it thats big enough for the snails, add waffer and sink to the gravel, let sit over night and remove and discard snails in the morning. I just use a glass plate and sit the waffer on it and come back every hour at night and clean it off..... there are several loachs that eat snails, the most commonly known in the clown loach but it has a few thing that make it not a good choice really,Not that it not a great fish, but they get big and need to housed in at least a group of 6. I think it because of availabilty of the fish that most LFS sell them as snail control. The YoYo loach has been seid to eat snails, there are a few others as will but are hard to find at LFS. If you look on the internet you can find sites that have good info on loachs and were you could buy them.

Djrichie
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