snail problem

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fisherman1035

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I have a 20g tank with about 10 pond snails, small 1 khuli loach, 1 small dojo loacddh 2baby bullhead 1" 2 upsidedown cats and a small banjo catfish and a small bumblebee cat
and that set of 10 snails is soon to be about 100 snails because they have laide eggs all over my tank
the reason there in thre is so that my dojo loach had some food[got told to feed him snails at the lfs]
and now i really want to get rid of them but they also laid eggs on the bottom so talking all the adults out will not get rid of them and my dojo loach hasn't been eating them
so is there any fish i could but to get rid of them?
 
Just cut back on feeding and the numbers should take care of themselves. Also put in a leaf of lettuce and take it out when it's covered in snails, freeze then throw out. While many loach species do eat snails dojos are not one of them. Your tank already seems pretty bottom heavy, I would not add a fish just to get rid of snails. You could try assassin snails, but be ready to feed them once the snails run out.
 
You could get a pea puffer they looooove snails and they are 100% freshwater but they don't get more than an inch long so it might get eaten plus they are notorious fin nippers :/
 
Dojo loaches don't really eat snails - you need Botia loaches or similiar species.

The problem is that your tank is quite small and a single loach is never a happy one.
 
The problem is that puffer fish are not community fish and do best in a species only tank.
 
khuli loaches wont eat the snails and that tank seems a bit overcrowded
 
lol yea u proly should bullheads get like 12" or bigger and they are very nippy
 
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