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You're very professional, thanks a lot!
"Gill Passman" 写入消� ... Gail Futoran wrote: Check for Skunk botia or YoYo loaches. I have both (separate tanks) and they do a good job of keeping snails in check. Puffers can be aggressive and some can get very large. I bought what I thought were two "dwarf" puffers, that turned out to be Green Spotted Puffers and soon outgrew the original tank. Many pet shops can't tell the difference between different types of puffers when young, but Skunk botia and YoYo loaches are hard to misidentify. Gail is quite right here.....yes there are some puffers that remain small and can survive in freshwater....however the majority are brackish at best and really do better in sal****er.....If you do want a puffer then you really have to go out there and get your google finger working and check that you are buying the right one and then some....you need to make sure what you are being sold labelled as the one you want is indeed the correct one..... Most members of the botia family will eat snails....some are better/quicker at it than others..... When it comes to your choice of loaches you have a couple of things to consider....firstly the size of your tank, which you haven't mentioned yet.....Clown Loaches although way the best at demolishing snails do not always do well in a small tank and have the potential to grow big....(I'm talking 12" eventual size) - Yoyos can grow up to 4" in size quite quickly - I know so because I have a number of them - along with Clowns......and no botia loach is happy kept on its own...they are social creatures and keeping any less than three and peferably more is cruel....they need their own kind..... If your tank is small then you can look at alternative methods of controlling your snail population....one way to do it is to drop a bit of lettuce, cucumber or courgette (zucchini) into the tank at lights out and then pick it out in the morning - it will be covered in snails....keep doing this until your population is under control.... Gill |
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