snail-eating loaches

[Max Action]

I have a couple apple / mystery snails that I would rather not murder, and was considering adding a few yo-yo loaches to my tank at some point. Would they eat my large snails, or do they just pick off little ones?

 

[glolite]

I'm not sure is the honest answer, but I've got 2 yoyo's and 2 clown loaches and they ignore my small snails. They have been recently moved though so when they've settled down the snails may well get eaten

 

[smithrc]

I put one of our apples in the 50l with 2 ladder loaches....

and although there were still some small snail that they had left alone, they instantly attacked the apple

Havent dared to try the 190l with 4 clowns after thet

 

[myenigmaself]

Yeah, you'd be rollin' the dice. I have two large apple snails in with a red tailed sand loach and he tries to attack them but they're just too big. He's still pretty small and I think if he was bigger he'd be able to pull it off.

 

[northpaul]

my 2 clown loach dont even bother the small pest snails in my tank wish they would (sigh)

 

[myenigmaself]

Huh... my clown loaches have eaten every single one of my "pest snails." Maybe I don't feed mine enough