Loach snack tank!

[ewurm]

I bought about 50 ramshorn snails from Plah1831 (name incorrect?) and put them in this 5 gallon to breed. They will be great snacks for my loaches. The tank is coated with eggs already. I am adding calcium to keep them healthy, and feeding algae wafers and the old fish food I have, which you may have seen in another of my threads. Love to keep the loaches happy!

[davo]

could you feed them dead leaves? or are they not that kind of snail?

[ewurm]

I could feed them anything, but the crappy old food was free.

[amesbien]

because going out in your backyard for a dead leaf isnt free?

[davo]

LOL. just wondered as it is autumn

[ewurm]

I don't know if any native leaves are harmful, I will stick with the harmful old expired food. I have plenty. LOL

[Tainted Glory]

I've been going to my LFS every week and picking out a few dozen snails from their planted system hoping they would multiply faster than my clowns could eat them. Needless to say, they can't. I like your idea!

[gomezladdams]

I do the same thing for my loahes.Canned green beans and wilted spinach really get them growing fast.

[Tainted Glory]

Do you have a heater or filter on the 5.5?

[fishcatch22]

if any of my aquarium plants should lose their leaves, I just let them sit in my aquarium, because my RH snail (brig kind) loves eating them. I wouldn't trust dead leaves from outside, though.

[ewurm]

Do you have a heater or filter on the 5.5?

I have a whisper 1-3i internal filter, no heater.

[Tainted Glory]

I've got a large critter keeper. Do you think I'll be okay if I add a few dozen snails in there with lettuce and stuff for them to eat? Snails have no chance of living in my tank. My loaches are like vultures!

[ewurm]

As long as it is enclosed, and you do regular water changes. I added a small internal filter.

[ewurm]

Update: I now have hundreds of tiny snails on my tank walls. Many would cringe, but this program is working great. My loaches are happy as clams (snails). LOL