>...
>Have you tried some loaches (clown, skunk, etc) to bring your snail
>problem into check. I've never tried them with the burrowing snails, as
>I've never had them. But they have been very effective in cleaning out
>any ramshorn snails in my planted tanks. Of course they're also very good
>at cleaning up any rainbow eggs in the mop.
I've actually _tried_ introducing Malaysian burrowing snails into a
55-gallon community tank that also had a couple of well-grown clown
loaches. More than just a couple at a time, too. (cross-thread back to the
native-species here) No go. The fast-breeding little critters all
disappear after a while, every time. I think that if your loaches are big
enough to crunch your biggest snail, they're a sure thing to solve the
problem.
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