Subject: how to eradicate snails?

From: [email-masked] (Gentaro Hirota)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 18:48:42 GMT

Hello,

Our 29g tank is infested with small snails.
What's wrong? They simply look ugli.
Are there any good ways to kill them all without
harming fish and shrimps in our tank?

Aquatronics seems to selling 'SNAIL-A-CIDE'.
Did somebody use it?

Does clown loaches really eat them?

Are there any insect larvae or zooplanktons that attack
fresh water snails? Light bugs? 

I'd appreciate any info or suggestions.

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From: [email-masked] (Scott William Unger)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 21:27:39 GMT

>From  article <[email-masked]>, by [email-masked] (Gentaro Hirota):
> Hello,
> 

Yes, they sure do.  I had two clown loaches in my tank for 2 years.
One time for a few months I was trying to have live plants but they kept
dieing so I gave it up.  I never saw any snails so I never thought I had
them.  About 2 years later I was moving so I had to sell all my fish
to move the tank.  The clown loaches were the first two go and about 
a week after they were gone, I started to see tons of little tiny snails
all over the place.  I didnt have any plants at the time so they coulndt
of came from there, they just must of been so small all those years that
I never saw any, and when they would get big enough, the loaches would
eat them and keep there numbers way down.  Clown Loaches are probally a good
thing to have anytime you have plants.  some fish stores I notice will
even sell plants by themselves with just clown loaches to keep the snails
off of them. 

- Scott

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvia Murr)
Date: 22 Sep 1996 07:02:55 GMT

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> > Does clown loaches really eat them?
Yes they do, undoubtedly. They are nice to look at as well. I had snails
multiplying till I bought Three clowns and the problem has evaporated.
They are a bit costly, but worth their price, to my opinion. They
sometimes eat the inside and leave the shell, which you can see the next
day floating at the surface.
Good luck. S.M.

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