Help With Getting Rid Of Snails

[Corleone]

There are smaller loaches that will eat snails. I think just about anything in the botia genus will. You can also just crunch every one you see with a fork - your fish will love the treat.

This is most interesting! I'll be giving this a try myself as I have a bit of a snail infestation in one of my tanks. I was going to buy a puffer fish to eat them all but this might be an easier solution

Much. Assassin snails would be better than a puffer, but they eat and breed fairly slowly. Depending what's in there already, a puffer's also likely to rid you of our fish infestation

 

[Seb Spiers]

There are smaller loaches that will eat snails. I think just about anything in the botia genus will. You can also just crunch every one you see with a fork - your fish will love the treat.

This is most interesting! I'll be giving this a try myself as I have a bit of a snail infestation in one of my tanks. I was going to buy a puffer fish to eat them all but this might be an easier solution

Much. Assassin snails would be better than a puffer, but they eat and breed fairly slowly. Depending what's in there already, a puffer's also likely to rid you of our fish infestation

I was told a congo puffer was fine as a community fish as long as it was the only one of its species in the tank.

 

[Corleone]

There are smaller loaches that will eat snails. I think just about anything in the botia genus will. You can also just crunch every one you see with a fork - your fish will love the treat.

This is most interesting! I'll be giving this a try myself as I have a bit of a snail infestation in one of my tanks. I was going to buy a puffer fish to eat them all but this might be an easier solution

Much. Assassin snails would be better than a puffer, but they eat and breed fairly slowly. Depending what's in there already, a puffer's also likely to rid you of our fish infestation

I was told a congo puffer was fine as a community fish as long as it was the only one of its species in the tank.

From the puffer species thread in the oddballs section:

Tetraodon Miurus - Congo puffer. Gets up to 6inches, very aggressive, but as it is an ambush fish, won't swim around a whole lot. Come in red morphs, and bury themselves. Can be tricky to start feeding. If you can, offer it mussell or cockle on the end of a blunted skewer.

As an ambush hunter, it also wouldn't be doing much for snails.

The only puffer I've read is safe in a community without much conflicting information is an amazon puffer. Even then, with carefully chosen tankmates. Slow, long finned, or dumb fish would still be at risk. Puffers are all well equipped to do serious damage.

 

[Seb Spiers]

Today I've aquired 3 of these little chaps and they seem to be taking a more than friendly interest in my snails

 

[puppyjess123]

get a loach