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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any luck using clown loaches? I just bought 6 small ones.

"Zimm44" wrote in message
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any luck using clown loaches? I just bought 6 small ones.

Most of the 'botia' loaches are very good snailers either at pulling them
out of the shells, or devouring the snail eggs. CLs are best known for
eating them out of the shell, though they sometimes need to be taught
(crush a snail in front of them, they will get the idea ;~). The
downside to the CL is their eventual size. Typically they don't grow
very quickly, but if given a steady supply of snails, they will not grow
typically, they will grow fast. CLs are great characters, very
personable, but you will need a good sized tank eventually.
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"NetMax" wrote in message
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"Zimm44" wrote in message
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any luck using clown loaches? I just bought 6 small ones.

Most of the 'botia' loaches are very good snailers either at pulling them
out of the shells, or devouring the snail eggs. CLs are best known for
eating them out of the shell, though they sometimes need to be taught
(crush a snail in front of them, they will get the idea ;~). The
downside to the CL is their eventual size. Typically they don't grow
very quickly, but if given a steady supply of snails, they will not grow
typically, they will grow fast. CLs are great characters, very
personable, but you will need a good sized tank eventually.
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www.NetMax.tk




Yo-Yo loaches will remain a reasonable size, unlike clown loaches. Yo-Yo's
will also terrorize the snail population quite as readily as clown loaches.

Keep a small group of three as they are much more active that way.

Tom

Has anyone had experiences with Chilotilapia rhodesii (spelling?) and MTS?

Well I got 6 small clowns two days ago. They are still extraordinarily shy.
Maybe it is the aggressive postures of the tanganyikans. who knows. I just
can't wait for them to start feasting on these ugly brown moving lumps. LOL My
tank is 75 gallons so i think I have enough room for them.

Did you read up on Clown Loaches? My gut reaction was, "Wow, that's a
lot of inches of fish!" While small now, they will grow.

I looked at The Krib and couldn't locate them immediately so did a
Google search and found:

http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/lo...clownloach.htm

This site says they grow to 6" in an aquarium and 12" in the wild. My
LFS advertises the longer length. I didn't realize how long they'd live
either.

After not researching critters more than once and purchasing items I was
assured would be fine that subsequently died or caused problems, I try
hard not to buy now without research. The LFS personnel rarely know a
thing about what they sell and often give conflicting or contradictory
information.

Zimm44 wrote:

Well I got 6 small clowns two days ago. They are still extraordinarily shy.
Maybe it is the aggressive postures of the tanganyikans. who knows. I just
can't wait for them to start feasting on these ugly brown moving lumps. LOL My
tank is 75 gallons so i think I have enough room for them.