Looking For A Community Fish That Eats Snails

[Vancar]

you could give me the snails . i need something to clean up my algae now. are they eating your plants?

no not at all, but they doing a great job of eating all the food i put in the tank for the ottos

 

[AstonN24vantage]

ill happily take 'em!

 

[Biulu]

I hate this - every time I buy plants from my LFS (Fishy Business indeed <_<), I get an infestation of small snails!

Normally, I pick them off with the gravel vac and then get the algae scraper out for the ones on the glass, but it's such a pain.

You could re-home the shrimp for a couple of weeks and dose the tank? But that's probably not the best option.

Ben.

I always rinse my plants (using hands to take out anything) before I plant them. This greatly reduces the number of snails and snail eggs that are introduced into my tank.

 

[G-skrilla]

Snails + problem = Epalzeorhynchus bicolor aka red tailed black "shark"
Eats them snails

 

[helterskelter]

Epalzeorhynchus bicolor or Red tail sharks do not eat snails, I wish they would though! their algae grazes.

 

[leysland]

Can anyone recommend a community fish that eats snails. At the moment I have neon tetras, galaxy rasboras, otos and shrimp in a 80x60x40 tank.

Assassin Snails are available on Ebay and there is a current thread under the Livestock section in this forum from member kiriyama who has Assassin snails for sale