snails!!!!!!

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 30 Nov 2003, 10:58

If it's the Burrowing Snail (aka Malaysian trumpet or Melanoides tuberculata) none at all!
it's a livebearing snail, and you can be pretty sure a single halfgrown 15mm burrower already spawns.....

All the other snailspecies are easy to control, this one however is THE PLAGUE

almost 95% of posts about "I have snails; help!" are about this rapidly multiplying critter....

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » 30 Nov 2003, 12:45

Of course with Loaches and snails,the snails will live on while you keep feeding the loaches other food. It's a fine balence to get them hunting for snails and keeping other fish happy with food.

Graeme.

Pectorale · Post by **Pectorale** » 01 Dec 2003, 08:58

Ah yes, the famous "i've got to feed my snails" problem. I recommend a strict diet. Your fish can probably do without food for a few days, those snails will start to look better to them with every passing day. My large tank is kept clean by B. sidthimuntki and Platydoras costatus, my smaller tank is under a constant siege from those Malaysian pointed monsters, nothing my B.rostrata's do seems to phase them.