Patwa
Aquarium Advice Activist
Currently, I have a significant amount of snails in my tank....larges ones and baby ones (ramshorn snails). I need someone to recommend a nice fish that will take care of my snail problem. I'm just looking to keep it under contol, NOT to eradicate them.... I'm looking for a loach or botia (botias eat snails, right?)
I already have 1 south american puffer that is just content eating everything except for the snails.....I had a figure 8 in there before and he had no problems keeping the snails in check...but he's gone now (R.I.P.)
CRITERIA:
-must eat snails as the main diet.....
-must not have a max size more than 2" i know loaches grow big, but I wonder if there are some that stay small
-must be peaceful, as I have a wide variety of fish in this tank, and I don't want another CAE/GAE type fish at ALL
-must not eat plants, as I have lots of establlished live plants growing
So let me know if i'm out of luck, or if you know of the perfect fish fo me
thanks
Zach.
I already have 1 south american puffer that is just content eating everything except for the snails.....I had a figure 8 in there before and he had no problems keeping the snails in check...but he's gone now (R.I.P.)
CRITERIA:
-must eat snails as the main diet.....
-must not have a max size more than 2" i know loaches grow big, but I wonder if there are some that stay small
-must be peaceful, as I have a wide variety of fish in this tank, and I don't want another CAE/GAE type fish at ALL
-must not eat plants, as I have lots of establlished live plants growing
So let me know if i'm out of luck, or if you know of the perfect fish fo me
thanks
Zach.