Loaches eat snails?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
M

mikec707

Feeder Fish
MFK Member
Jul 9, 2009
591
0
0
santa rosa
www.youtube.com
Recently I've had a noticed tons of MTS snails in my tank mostly at night when the come out. I also have 3 Zebra Loaches I heard that they are great for eating snails but I have not seen them eat any. This may be a dumb question but do they eat the shells an all? Or just what's inside of the shell?
I guess the only bad thing about it that I have a undergravel filter. So I may never know how many snails there really is in my tank. Besides that it looks cool when they all come out at night I sware there's at least 200 visible
 
They eat only the inside not the shells. MTS also have really tough shells and they are a bit smarter at avoiding predation I have noticed. I don't think your loaches would be effective at doing the job. If you really wanna reduce the numbers set up a trap by laying a bottle inside the tank at night with some bait. Pull the bottle out later and you get a concentration of snails inside the bottle. Then take the bottle and put it in the freezer to kill snails then discard.
 
loaches do eat snails, but it depends on the loaches and/or snails. my black kuhlis don't mess with the mts much, they prefer the pond snails.
blackworms will eat snails, and I'm sure the loaches will love the blackworms.
 
Thanks for the info guys. If the MTS ever get totally out of control I'll try the bottle an bait. Right now I like them. Might change my mind in a month or 2
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom