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RE: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #71
>The main problem
>with snails IMHO is that if you have to medicate the tank,
many medicines will
>kill off the snails, and then you have a fouled tank on
your hands. I find
>that it is best to keep snails at a minimum. They can
overtake a tank. Clown
>Loaches and skunk loaches do a fantastic job. If you want
to keep a few large
>ones the skunk loach I have will only eat the small ones.
My main problem with snails in my heavily planted 40g was
that I could pull out 50-75 ramshorns every other day.
They just kept reproducing...Never had the problem with
medication killing them, thankfully, and I got a couple of
skunk loaches to keep the population under control. They
eat the smaller snails and the eggs, so I just had to pull
out most of the larger ones. They do keep the algae on the
glass under control, and I am glad to have the 20 or so
that I have not pulled out of the tank.
I also got two very small clown loaches to work on the
snails, figuring that when they outgrew the tank they could
go to the 55g. But I found that they like to poke holes in
the leaves of my amazon swords and java fern. Oh well. At
least they're fun to watch :)
Regards,
Melissa
mshea at delta_info.net