Snail Hunting fish - recommendations ?

Shawn
My Clown Loach has done a number on my snails, pond and Ramshorn. The only
problem is know that the snails are gone I can't catch him. The clown loach
can get rather large over time so I would like to get rid of him without
disturbing the plants.

Al

"Shawn P. Good" wrote in message
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Hello :

I bought quite alot of plants about a month and a half ago to start up my
new planted tank. Seems like there were some hitchhikers, as now my
aquarium is full of small (~5-8mm) snails. No idea what species, but they
leave the algae alone and love eating holes in the leaves of all my plants
(except the onion plant - go figure !).

Anyways, at some point in the past, I've seen someone post here about
species that love to sneak through the vegetation and pluck snails from
the
plants - and I want some ! What species was that ?

Thanks.

Shawn

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Al Boswell wrote:

My Clown Loach has done a number on my snails, pond and Ramshorn. The
only problem is know that the snails are gone I can't catch him.

if you have the time to implement it, the following idea is wonderful:
put the net inside the tank whenever you feed them; drop the food above
the net; after they finish remove the net;

in a few weeks you won't even need the food, just dump the net and
they'll come like crazy!

--
Otavio Exel /\oo/\

"Al Boswell" wrote in message
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Shawn
My Clown Loach has done a number on my snails, pond and Ramshorn. The only
problem is know that the snails are gone I can't catch him. The clown
loach
can get rather large over time so I would like to get rid of him without
disturbing the plants.

Al
Lots of luck.....
I ended up nearly tearing everything out catching the last of my angel egg
eating yoyos ....
The last one would burrow in the substrate to hide.

bob