What fish do you have already. If you want something small and entertaining a cpo is very good at eating snails. Not a fish, but as long as you don't have anything with long fins should fit in fine.
Need baby snail muncher
I have my 20 gallon tank set up and growing plants.
It's doing wonderfully. However I have tons of pond snails that are about to starve to death now that the tank has reached a balance and isn't growing much algae.
I was hoping to find a non-burrowing fish that would eat baby snails.
I've only had people recommend dwarf puffers and loach species, but the puffer is out of the question, and most loaches burrow. Which (at this point in time) would throw all my new (barely rooted plants) everywhere.
Suggestions?
Does anyone know if pygmy corrys eat baby snails?
I hear they do. And I was planning on mainly populating the tank with them.
It's doing wonderfully. However I have tons of pond snails that are about to starve to death now that the tank has reached a balance and isn't growing much algae.
I was hoping to find a non-burrowing fish that would eat baby snails.
I've only had people recommend dwarf puffers and loach species, but the puffer is out of the question, and most loaches burrow. Which (at this point in time) would throw all my new (barely rooted plants) everywhere.
Suggestions?
Does anyone know if pygmy corrys eat baby snails?
I hear they do. And I was planning on mainly populating the tank with them.
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Dwarf cichlids, gouramis(sometimes), and assassin snails are great at controlling snail populations.
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I'd love to have a cpo, but I intend to have pygmy corys and a show fish, possibly a dwarf gourami.
Don't CPO's burrow and uproot things? I thought most crays did.
I considered getting an assassin snail or two, but they burrow.
Gouramis are a good suggestion. I've never found a dwarf cichlid that seemed like a good candidate for living singly in a 20 gallon tank.
Don't CPO's burrow and uproot things? I thought most crays did.
I considered getting an assassin snail or two, but they burrow.
Gouramis are a good suggestion. I've never found a dwarf cichlid that seemed like a good candidate for living singly in a 20 gallon tank.
Pond snails also burrow, im not understanding what the difference is between pond snails burrowing and assains burrowing.
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Chain loaches and other loaches (not Kuhli for some reason) eat snails.
Laetacara - curviceps, dorsigera or araguaiae are snail munching machines & don't bother plants. A 20 gallon is perfect for a pair.
The snails live off biofilm if they need to.
I'd love to have a cpo, but I intend to have pygmy corys and a show fish, possibly a dwarf gourami.
Don't CPO's burrow and uproot things? I thought most crays did.
I considered getting an assassin snail or two, but they burrow.
Gouramis are a good suggestion. I've never found a dwarf cichlid that seemed like a good candidate for living singly in a 20 gallon tank.
No, CPO's don't borrow and uproot plants. My tanks are always densely planted and they never messed with anything. Just would need to make sure that they have a place to hide for when they molt. Otherwise they are a pretty good bottom feeder and love eating snails. Should be fine with pygmy cory's and a gourami.
I'll look into CPOs, Laetacara - curviceps, dorsigera and araguaiae.
And @Aquatic Delight my pond snails don't burrow, and I've never had any that did.
@Nordic, the snails will potentially survive on bio film, but I've got 3 nerrites, and something like 120 pond snails. And the nerites are looking into creative ways to find algae. They are clearly getting hungry, they've never bothered hunting anywhere but the glass, but I've found them forcing and reaching under my hardscape stones, they aren't exactly adept at burrowing, but they are strong enough to shift my fist sized rocks enough to reach a bit more algae. My real concern isn't so much the large number of snails, or that they eat, but that they find something a bit closer to a natural balance, and a predator will do that. Plus it generates nitrate if I turn some of the snails into fish poop. I like to try and have circular systems in my tanks. Fish eat snails, snails eat algae, algae soaks up what little nutrients the plants don't. And the plants eat the offal of all of them.
And @Aquatic Delight my pond snails don't burrow, and I've never had any that did.
@Nordic, the snails will potentially survive on bio film, but I've got 3 nerrites, and something like 120 pond snails. And the nerites are looking into creative ways to find algae. They are clearly getting hungry, they've never bothered hunting anywhere but the glass, but I've found them forcing and reaching under my hardscape stones, they aren't exactly adept at burrowing, but they are strong enough to shift my fist sized rocks enough to reach a bit more algae. My real concern isn't so much the large number of snails, or that they eat, but that they find something a bit closer to a natural balance, and a predator will do that. Plus it generates nitrate if I turn some of the snails into fish poop. I like to try and have circular systems in my tanks. Fish eat snails, snails eat algae, algae soaks up what little nutrients the plants don't. And the plants eat the offal of all of them.
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