Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Question on snails and loaches

Hi Donna-

I'm 100% confident the snail outbreak isn't from overfeeding, the reason I
say that is because this is the same tank we lost about 6 months ago that I
posted (the water company performed work in the area and we lost our tank as
well as 3 neighbors lost their tanks as well)... So, even with no fish in
the tank for over a month - meaning we were putting no food in the tank, we
still had the same number of snails. It's not a "recent" outbreak, it's
something we have always had in the tank. How they survived the bad water I
will never know.

I did check the site and they are trumpet snails... Ours are just VERY
white (must be from the chemical the water company used which might have
bleached ours out a little more) : )

I am more interested in finding out if these are something that is truly
beneficial or if I added a yoyo loach if it would reduce the populations and
if that would cause any harm in the tank or if these are beneficial in any
way. I also want to make sure a yoyo loach will not harm my horse face
loaches though. It's pretty hard to get the horse face loaches to fit in
safely with a cichlid tank and ours work out perfect and I don't want to
mess that up.

We feed Spectrum pellets to the cichlids in the tank.

Thanks!
-Brandi

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Donna King <donnalynneking@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
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> http://www.fishpondinfo.com/snail2.htm
> Check out this site and see if you can identify what kind you have.
> What and how much are you feeding? The cause of your snail out break is
> likely
> this.
> Donna
>
> ________________________________
> From: Brandi C <brandiable@gmail.com>
> ] Question on snails and loaches
>
>
> Hi--
>
> We have a 125 gallon freshwater tank with a sand bottom. We have I believe
> what are trumpet snails. The have long almost V shaped shells, mostly white
> in color with light brown markings and they are nocturnal. At first, I
> didn't mind the snails because I thought they were good to have them down
> into the sand and eating any extra food, but, they are reaching far too
> many
> in the tank.
>
> We have 3 horse face loaches in the tank that I just LOVE, but, have read
> that Yoyoloaches will help to eat some of the snails and keep their
>
> populations in check. I am looking for the pro's and con's of adding yoyo
> loaches to the tank.
>
> I want to ensure that the Yoyoloach and the clown loaches can live together
>
>
> in peace. The fish in the tank range from a large male Frontosa to a
> variety of male African Cichlids and Peacocks.
>
> Thank you for any advice!!!
>
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> -Brandi
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-Brandi

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