That's pretty smart, but I think the tropheus might try to eat the cucumber; I can only speculate, not too sure if it would happen for sure, never tried it. lol, but good idea nonetheless.
Looking for algae eater that will eat snails
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That's pretty smart, but I think the tropheus might try to eat the cucumber; I can only speculate, not too sure if it would happen for sure, never tried it. lol, but good idea nonetheless.
the common pest snails (bladder, pond, ramshorn, malaysian trumpet) will not eat healthy plants, only dead and dying plant matter. there is most likely another issue with your plants that needs addressed. give us the rundown on your lighting (type of bulb and amount of time the lights are on), your fertilizing schedule, and whether or not you are running co2 in the tank. also tell us the substrate type and depth.
as mentioned, algae issues should be addressed by fixing the issue that is causing the algae, not by adding a fish to eat the algae.
The snails we have are very small about the size of small beads and they never seem to get any bigger. The plants are heathy as they are growing quite well. After seeing the snails on them they have tiny holes in there leaves. As far as the tropheus eating the cucumber I don't believe it will hurt them.
tiny holes in leaves can be a good indicator that your plants have a potassium deficiency. do you dose fertilizers at all?
we do fertilize but the holes disappeared after the clown loach ate alot of the snails. We took the loach out and the snails have increased and the holes in the leaves are reappearring. Is there not a snail that eats plants I believe I have heard there is not sure what it is called.
there are two snails in the apple snail family that i know of that eat plants. cana snails and marisa snails. both are quite a bit larger than your average pest snail. the cana gets bigger than a golf ball, and the marisa snail looks like a giant ramshorn.
here's a great link for apple snail info, if it interests you: http://www.applesnail.net/
here's a great link for apple snail info, if it interests you: http://www.applesnail.net/
Our powere was out the other night and when it came on I went to check all the filters I noticed a ton of snails with long torpedo shaped bodies. Would these be what you are talking about because I assumed they were malaysian snails. Thanks for the link I will check that out.
sounds like your snails are mts (malaysian trumpet snails). they usually hide out in the substrate, burrowing through it and eating leftover food. when your power went out, they were most likely coming to the surface of the water for air (if you saw a lot of them on the tank walls), as the filters were not running and pushing oxygen into the tank.
mts are not part of the apple snail family.
a link for you to check out regarding mts: http://www.planetinverts.com/malaysian_trumpet_snail.html
snails in the filter is bound to happen if you have snails in the tank. i'm constantly cleaning ramshorns out of the hob filter on my planted tank, and bladder/pond snails out of the canister filter on my big guys' tank (still trying to figure out how the heck i got snails in a tank that has never seen anything but plastic decor! lol).
mts are not part of the apple snail family.
a link for you to check out regarding mts: http://www.planetinverts.com/malaysian_trumpet_snail.html
snails in the filter is bound to happen if you have snails in the tank. i'm constantly cleaning ramshorns out of the hob filter on my planted tank, and bladder/pond snails out of the canister filter on my big guys' tank (still trying to figure out how the heck i got snails in a tank that has never seen anything but plastic decor! lol).
I would toss in some assassin snails, truth be told. They might take a while but they will get rid of all the other snails in your tank. They are predators and reproduce slowly. Plus they'll be good scavengers when all the other snails are gone.
For algae issues, perhaps try otos?
For algae issues, perhaps try otos?
I know what you mean about snails in tanks out of know where makes you wonder how many snail eggs we drink a day through our water. We have real good luck controling algae with rhino plecos and just recently picked up a bunch more for our tanks. A 3 inch rhino can clean a 40g tank as good or better than we can in about 2 days which helps free up time for other tank chores. We are not lazy but with 70 tanks every little bit helps.
