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

My sister has a lot of snails in her tank. I have been lucky and I don't have any at all even though I got some of the plants from my sister.
Perhaps,she got the snails after she gave me the plants.
--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, Brandi C <brandiable@...> wrote:
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> I don't have any pictures of them before the water problem or after
> really.. Pictures of my fish I have! : )
>
> It might be in part them looking whiter than they are since the bottom of
> the tank is black sand, but, I don't think so?
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Donna King <donnalynneking@...>wrote:
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> >
> >
> > I wonder if they would be safe for the loach to eat. Sounds like they are
> > "strange". Can you find some photo's of them before the water went bad and
> > see
> > if they were always that color? Could it be they have a calcium deficiency
> > and
> > that is caused the color issue??
> > Donna
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Brandi C <brandiable@...>
> > 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
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