dean
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hi all whats your thoughts on snails? are they good or bad or does it depend on which species?
Feel quite bad now just added my second treatment of snail killer spotted a few after adding new plants always thought they would eat everything.I have them in all my tanks, ramshorn, trumpets, black tylos, pond snails, little tiny ones that I have no idea what they are called, doesn't bother me, do no harm.
I no id do a water change if I wasn't half p@#$@dyou murderer lol
no they dont do any harm, it was thought years ago that they ate your plants, but they dont do any harm and in small nannois they can mop up any decaying matter, so they are a clean up crerw
Do the same to keep the population in check, shrimp love them tooI keep my snails in check by squashing any I see that venture onto the front glass, my corry's love um!
I have Water Hog (Asellus) in the tank. They do the same job as Cherry Shrimp, but they are a lot better at hiding, so you can keep them in tanks with Dwarf Cichlids etc more successfully. I also have MTS and Ramshorns in the tanks where the water is hard enough.couple of native water hog lice ( aquatic version of wood lice )
If you want your fish to spawn, fish like Dwarf Cichlids and Plecs, which show parental care are fine with MTS and Red Ramshorn (and possibly other snails as well). Most egg scatters will have their eggs eaten by Red Ramshorns, but are fine with MTS. Red Ramshorns, MTS and Tadpole Snails (Physa - also plant safe) all breed pretty quickly, but you can control then by baiting with courgette etc.so theres no real downside to snails, too many and you are overfeeding, but better the snails est it than it pollute the tank and a squashed one makes a tasty snack for the fish and shrimp