Is this a Malaysian trumpet snail
- Thread starter Lamie
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Oblio
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Indeed. I once had an infested tank. Tried everything including removing 50 a day but still made no impression after a month. Eventually I added some Botia loaches (not specifically to eat the snails) and over the course of several months they ate all the snails. I didn't actually see them for most of that time as they didn't need to come out for food and I thought they had died!
They are nocturnal and come out after the lights go off. Without predators in the tank, they simply breed and eventually you end up with thousands in the tank.
One of the places I worked at had them in their tanks. The snails had been there so long, half the substrate in each tank was dead snail shells from the snails that had grown up, bred and died in the tank. Every day there were baby snails all over the surface, plants and ornaments and the bigger ones hid in the gravel. They were awful bloody things. Some people like them, some hate them. I hate them with a passion.
never would have guessed
DoubleDutch
Fish Gatherer
To be honest I think MTS are great snails.
They keep sand open, feed on leftover food and detritus. They don't harm anything in the tank.
They keep sand open, feed on leftover food and detritus. They don't harm anything in the tank.
they will be in the gravel breeding
that's a scary asss picture, not sure I would wanna see that coming up the stairs from my basement. altho the hands and lack of back legs is a bit weird.
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