loaches and MTS

[Hoovercat]

Rather simple question. I got a half dozen MTS yesterday for my new 90 gal. and was wondering if anyone had experience with Yo-Yos or clown loaches being kept with them. I know both loaches will wipe out pond snails but I haven't kept MTS before. Seems like someone said the MTS had better defenses?

 

[PsiPro]

I've also seen people recomed Loaches to him curb a MTS outbreak I dont really know however.

 

[lmw80]

MTS are harder for loaches to eat cause their shells are a lot tougher. I have two horseface loaches in my 20 and about a million MTS....as far as I know, the loaches don't touch the MTS's, and if they do, it's not often.

 

[workfortheman]

The loaches in my tanks control the mts populations, but never wipe them out. I assume this is because a high % of the MTS population is in the substrate most of the time.

 

[Hoovercat]

What kinds of loaches, Ernie ?

 

[Toirtis]

I have 3 mid-sized yoyos in a tank with a thriving MTS population, and I have not noticed any snail decline since the loaches were added, so if they are eating MTSes, it is not many.

 

[malkore]

my clowns easily wipe out baby MTS. the shells aren't as hard as the adults. they'll definitely keep the population size in-check.

 

[Toirtis]

my clowns easily wipe out baby MTS. the shells aren't as hard as the adults. they'll definitely keep the population size in-check.

Yes, clowns mow through anything snail-like with gusto....my clowns left a visible trail of shell frags wherever they went when I first introduced them to their current tank.

 

[Zezmo]

My Yo-Yo and Angelique Botia's will munch through smaller snails... but they don't/can't touch adult MTS. They also do not eat my Mystery Snail, or the Adult limpet.

 

[workfortheman]

Mostly the same experience here: Clowns munch away and yo-yo's kinda pick at smaller ones. Either way you are controlling the population, just to different degrees.

 

[Menagerie]

My African cichlids have wiped out the mts population in the 80 gal--the one tank I really want them in!!