Re: [tropical fish club] snails

I have not had pond snails or my ram shore snails eat any plants. Donna

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> Responding to another posters snail query reminded me of something.
>
> In a recent issue of TFH, the natural aquariums writer stated that pond
> snails didn't eat her plants. I wrote and told her the pond snails in
> my tank certainly did. I told her my plants constantly had snails on
> them and they were chewing holes in the leaves. Sometimes they'd
> completely sever a leaf on a plant like val.
>
> So what's others experience been? The response I got from Rhonda was
> that I must have some very nasty snails :-). Is that the case or do
> others have plant-eating pond snails as well?
>
> BTW, I also have trumpet snails and they do not seem to eat the plants.
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tropicalfishclub/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tropicalfishclub/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
tropicalfishclub-digest@yahoogroups.com
tropicalfishclub-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
tropicalfishclub-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/