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i'm thinking of getting some snails for one of my tanks but i was wondering if that one gets crowed could i put more snails in a tank with a yoyo loach ( i read they are avid snail eaters) would that make no more snails in the tank or just keep the numbers down.

Once you introduce snails into a tank you will never get rid (with the exception of chemicals - which can harm fish)

Why introduce - "maintaining" a tank is enough

Yoyos will eat them but not irradicate them

Snails are hard to control and have no real purpose

(You will probably introduce them in time by accident)

Regards

You could get maybe some of the Malaysian Trumpet Snails...They mostly stay down in the gravel and eat up all the excess food/algae that accumilates down there so the loach wouldn't necessarily bother them....

Don't get any Snails, they are Pests & you'll have hundreds in a few days.

I have 2 Yoyo Loaches in a 120L tank & i have thousands of Snails in there.


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It's funny but i've always had one snail in each of my tanks and i've never had any trouble...it's always stayed one snail...and in my experience yoyo's will eat snails once in a while, but nothing compared to the clown loach

Yo-yos will eat MTS. And they will dig through the gravel to find each and every one. They completely wiped out all the mTS in my 90g (over 200 of em) in 2 months.

Some snails are fairly beneficial, MTS go through the gravel aerating it and cleaning it ... They are beneficial in a planted tank because it is hard to gravel vac.

Mystery and apple snails will eat all kinds of algae. Whenever one of my tanks gets hair algae i move around my large mystery snail and he cleans up.

If you have a sudden snail explosion like was listed above yo need to cut back on feeding. The only reason for snail explosions is excess food.

I "breed" MTS in my ghost shrimp tank. Quite frankly they dont reproduce fast enough for my likes.

And yes the yo-yos will take care of any excess snails you put in the tank.

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