Shiloh27 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 My 36 gallon peaceful community tank is overpopulated with snails. I have been doing the lettuce traps and have reduced the numbers drastically. I am now wanting to find something to keep the numbers manageable. Looking at assassin snails or loaches? Not sure which route to go. Which is going to coexist best with the other tank mates? I have mollies, platys, guppies and swords. Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoopkamol Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Assassins are best bet as most loaches need a lot bigger tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiloh27 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 How many would i need? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckmullin Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 reduce tank feeding. 99.9% of the issue typically snails will have an equilibrium with available residual food Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoopkamol Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 +1 ckmullin i have 3 assassins in each of my tanks and got control of snails booms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percilus Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) I would just starve the tank. Spot feed your fish carefully. I love snails and actually over feed at times on purpose if I don't see tonnes of them everywhere. Most people would think that's nuts and I get it. But all it takes is a week or so of low feeding for things to go from high population to normal again I find. You could also try a pea puffer. The guppy's wouldn't defend themselves to well from him, but the rest would probably be ok. Assassin snails work well. Or a couple apple snails would liven up the tank and out compete pond snails for a lot of the waste as well if you did not want to starve the tank. Edited January 11, 2015 by Percilus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceturf Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Assassin snails will be less invasive, and you won't really have to do anything to accommodate them. I tend to agree that snails keep themselves in check in response to food levels. But besides waisted food, not much hard done unless you are dumping gobs and gobs of food in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh duh duh Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 i've had great success with clown loaches myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFee2012 Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Our plecos seems to like the snails as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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