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Fishrockmysox Hobbyist Posts: 94 Kudos: 58 Votes: 12 Registered: 20-Oct-2006 | What kind of fish eat snails? 10G- 6 Zebra Danios, 1 Upside Down Catfish 20G- 1 Goldfish 72G(maybe95)- Need Stock suggestions |
Posted 25-Oct-2006 13:45 | |
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mughal113 Big Fish Posts: 343 Kudos: 160 Votes: 64 Registered: 16-Jun-2006 | Clown loaches. (Easy one, wasn't it ) Ive seen a snail infested tank cleared out within a day by half a dozen small blue loaches as well! Puffers love snails too. |
Posted 25-Oct-2006 16:50 | |
sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004 | All botia loaches(there are dozens of species), puffers, most cichlids, and most gouramis. Botias would be the best and can get along in community tanks if that's your aim. This would include yoyos, skunk, blue, zebra, dwarf, and clown just to name a few common species. Clown loaches however get very large and are social so either borrow one and return it or have a big tank ready for the future. Preferably something around 100g or more. There are plenty of smaller loaches that can fit long term in a tank around 29g or larger and eat snails just as well as the clown. Puffers are never good community tank fish and should be kept in a species tank. |
Posted 25-Oct-2006 19:42 | |
Fishrockmysox Hobbyist Posts: 94 Kudos: 58 Votes: 12 Registered: 20-Oct-2006 | |
Posted 27-Oct-2006 00:56 | |
Calilasseia *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003 | You say that Cichlids will eat snails? Interesting. Care to list some of the efficient species in this regard? Only if cichlids will indeed eat snails, then I will have no problem whatsoever keeping them happy with live food in one of my aquaria. |
Posted 30-Oct-2006 22:26 | |
sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004 | Most cichlids will pick at snails and eat the ones they can. Generally they won't destroy the population though since they don't usually go on a search and destroy like loaches or puffers. Angelfish are horrible snail tankmates if you actually want to keep the snails and are great at keeping snails hiding out of sight. My poor applesnails got nearly wiped out by 1 angel and I had over 100 in the tank. My rams frequently grab my ramshorns and crush the shells for a treat. My johanni would smash open snails on the rocks or glass and eat just about any species he found. They are pretty much equivalent to labyrinth fish in their desire and ability to kill and eat snails. They aren't going to hunt them down as efficiently as loaches or puffers but they will most deifinitley put a dent in the population. |
Posted 30-Oct-2006 22:58 | |
DwarfGourami Hobbyist Posts: 132 Kudos: 83 Votes: 6 Registered: 01-Aug-2005 | I had a pardise fish that ate snails and kept the population under control, he would stock and wait for the snails the come out in the open and out of its shell enough and grab the snail right out of it shell I had alot of empty shells |
Posted 12-Nov-2006 03:25 | |
fish patty Fish Addict Posts: 539 Kudos: 223 Votes: 255 Registered: 04-Oct-2006 | I had an oscar one time in one tank & unwanted snails in another. Occasionally I would grab a couple snails out of the one tank & drop them into the oscar tank. He would catch them when they hit the water & you could hear them crunch. Also when a june bug would get into the house, my husband would catch it & feed it to the oscar. |
Posted 12-Nov-2006 04:21 | |
Fishrockmysox Hobbyist Posts: 94 Kudos: 58 Votes: 12 Registered: 20-Oct-2006 | Oscars eat Snails? wow, I never knew that lol 10G- 6 Zebra Danios, 1 Upside Down Catfish 20G- 1 Goldfish 72G(maybe95)- Need Stock suggestions |
Posted 16-Apr-2007 01:37 |
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