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

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@yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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> From: Brandi C <brandiable@gmail.com>
> 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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