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snails in planted tanks
- To: "aquatic-plants at actwin_com" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: snails in planted tanks
- From: "theabyssalplain.freeserve.co.uk" <thefish at theabyssalplain_freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:57:43 +0100
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What species of snails are good in planted tanks? I have heard that
Malaysian Trumpet Snails tend to leave healthy plants alone, but dig in the
substrate, aerating it. I would also like an apple snail or two, although I
know that you need the right species or they will attack healthy plants. My
biggest obstacle would be the softness of my tap water and the preferred
acidity of the species I have decided to put in my future tank (tetras,
danios, barbs etc.). Is it possible to keep snails in an acidic tank, and
if not, why don't people with infested tanks just lower their pH until the
snails are dead? Would adding small amounts of Ca2+ and Mg2+ supplements
help, to avoid increasing carbonate hardness?
I might keep some clown loaches and zebra loaches to keep the Malaysian
snail population down, although I imagine some would survive, but I would
think that a fully grown Apple snail would be too big for the loaches to
eat it?
Also, would Malaysian Trumpet snails prevent any breeding by eating any
eggs, or would it possible to make a snail and egg-eating-fish proof trap
for scattered eggs (as most of the small fish I would like to keep eat
their eggs and are egg scatterers.