Snail Eating Fish Please

[PJGoblin]

Tank setup:

38 gall
35 cherry shrimp
20 silver tipped tetra
20 neon tetra
4 Cory's
4 dwarf sucker catfish

Can anyone help:

Currently planting out my tank and trying different species seeing what grows best.
Looking for a smallish "snail eating Fish" that must NOT like shrimp as I have red cherry shrimp.

Is there such a fish please advise...!

Regards

PJGoblin

 

[Wills]

Dwarf Chain Loaches or Assasin Snails

 

[razer121]

sorry i must add to this....when i read the topic title i belived you had snails eating your fish lol

 

[dave_oddballs]

im with wills on the assasin snails, never had chain loach's so i don't know but from what i do know i think most of the loach's will eat snails.

 

[llamalord305]

If the aforementioned snails are MTS, I see no reason to take them out. If they are pond snails, well I guess an assassin snail would be best.

 

[Larkspur]

Somehow I have snails in my tank. I think they rode in with plants. I think they are pond snails. They don't bother me too much. They seem to be multiplying hastily, but they're not destroying my plants and I've noticed my tiger barb eating one that was crawling on the rocks. The barb knocked it over, exposed its belly, and then was eaten.

 

[BigFairy]

my kribs devoured my whole snail population

 

[Monty2451]

Since your tank seems overpopulated right now as it is (based on the 1 in. of fish/ 1 gallon of water rule) I'd say go with the assassin snails. You should know though that assassin snails are slow, as it takes them about a week to digest a single snail it eats, which means they are more for population control than extermination. your best bet might be to do the old vegetable trick. Just put a couple pieces of sliced, poached vegetable (cucumber and lettuce work well) into the tank just after lights out. In the morning, take out the snail infested pieces and just throw them out or flush them. The only problem I can see with this though is your shrimp and corys, as they love veggies too, but it worth a shot over adding another fish. However if you MUST add another fish loaches do very well with snail disposal, I'd say a Yoyo loach as they don't get nearly as large as clown loaches, only six inches. Good luck!