do snails ruin cichlid eggs?

"Zimm44" wrote in message
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no reccomendations in terms of a rid-a-snail type of product? I have
heard they
eat detritus.

I strongly recommend against chemical products to kill snails. Their
active ingredient is usually some form of copper which is toxic to fish
at only slightly higher dosages, and then there is the bio-load of all
the dead snails to consider. Mechanical removal and/or snail eating fish
tend to be the most common methods used.

I've never heard of a detritus eating snail, and while I wouldn't be too
surprised if it was true, consider that the snail has it's own exhaust
pipe, so the detritus is only changing 'flavour' ;~).
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