snails

That does sound strange. Most frog's vision is motion based. Meaning that
they see in monochrome and shapes become most prominant when in motion.
This is why most frogs need to have thier food wiggling in front of them.

Nevertheless, your observation with ADF is something to remember.
Justin

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"Scott Far Thunder" wrote...
Hau kolas..I have a 29 gallon heavily planted tank that is equally
heavily infested with MTS..I've pulled 2500 of these little suckers out
of this tank alone since April. Unfortunately, no exaggeration.
Loaches have been less than impressive in controlling these, perhaps
they're overwhelmed by the numbers, perhaps too well fed to "hunt".
Usually the culled snails end up as supplemental bird food, but after
pulling another 125 or so out of there today, it occurred to me that
somebody here may have use for them; e.g. food for a puffer or the
like. Got some pretty prolific ramshorns in there also. I'm in Lansing
MI, if by chance anybody here is also or nearby and wants them, drop
me a line. On a related note, what exactly do these buggers eat?!?
Seems the population has never reached it's threshold and crashed,
even before I started culling in April (do you know what a pound of MTS
looks like?!? ). Predation is having minimal
effect, I won't use chemical control, so perhaps resource limitation
is
next control? TIA for any input.

lila pilamaya




african dwarf frogs. although i have not read any information
regarding their use as snail control, nor of them even eating snails, i
have eight in one of my tanks and tried introducing snails that came as
travelers on some plants i purchased. the mature snails are still
there and thriving, but *never* i have seen even any new snails. i
tested this out by introducing a few of the larger ones into another
tank with no adf's and sure enough, in almost no time at all i had new
snails. i placed two adf's into that tank and the increase stoped and
the new snails disappeared, leaving only the few large ones that are
too big for them to even attempt to eat.

mayhaps N*tM*x can elaborate on this phenomenon.


N*tM*x? lol. Anyways, that sounds really interesting. There are a few
loaches who also don't eat snails but polish off snail eggs in a real
hurry. I suspect many fish would as well, but I would never have
suspected the clumsy near sighted ADF ;~).
thanks
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