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My advice.asmith":2n72y5fl said:I have a 55 planted tank. Some snails got in the tank on some of my plants and they have multiplied like rabbits and are eating my plants. Is a clown loach my best bet? I only saw 1 snail at first and ignored it. Now there are hundreds of them and my plants are suffering.
Andrew
asmith":1qoftigp said:I was thinking the Clown Loaches would be a good choice, but I heard they can grow pretty large.
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Beaslbob:
The reason I have this problem is because I didn't do anything about them in the first place. They have cleaned up the algae and are now destroying the plants. I should have picked them out when there were only one or two. but now they are taking over. They might adjust their population when their food supply runs out, but that will also result in planted tank with no plants at the current rate.
ranaman":3d9z5wja said:If you get clown loaches you will have dtsappearing neons. Clowns get to be big fish. The "sid the monkey" loach stays small. You might try pea or dwarf puffers.You don't have to add them to the tank you could set up a small tank for them and drop the snails in. This sloves the fin nipping problem.
I have also had good luck with baby stinkpot turtles hatchlings are smaller than a thumbnail and really cute. If it weren't for the neons I would say baby florida softshell turtles might work since adults are very fond of snails.