Do ALL loaches eat snails?

[Punkymom]

I recently added a bunch of Ramshorn Snails to my 55 gal that my LFS gave to me. They were going to help rid my plants of the diatoms growing on them. Well, it's been a couple of weeks now and there are very few of them left. I know this because when I do my weekly water changes, I'm sucking up a lot of empty shells. I have 2 little punks of skunk loaches (they think they're bullies...) and I think they may be the culprits but I'm not sure. Does anybody know??? Just trying to figure out the answer to this little mystery of mine...TIA

 

[Allivymar]

Yep, skunk loaches will chow on em. I think any of the loaches with that sorta mouth structure will chow on snails. For example, the hillstream loaches have a very different mouth structure; then again they eat algae. They won't eat snails.

 

[hisc1ay]

Good to know...I saw some sweet loaches and I wondered if they ate snails. That's what I'm looking for.

-j

 

[illuminum]

Do dojo loaches and clown loaches eat snails?

I have 2 clown loaches with 3 snails and haven't seen any problem yet...