r/Aquariums • u/SphyrnaRob • Aug 17 '22

55000L aquarium epoxycoated and ready for water DIY/Build

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u/IcarianSkies Aug 17 '22

Just buy a horde of yoyo loaches. No more snails and now you have loaches. Win-win.

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u/Peti715 Aug 17 '22

Or Assassin snails they will eat extra fish food and look pretty and do not breed fast.

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u/ayyyt Aug 18 '22

Sounds like a great idea until you get one and all they is sit there and eat with the other snails💀

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u/Peti715 Aug 18 '22 edited Aug 18 '22

They don't do that, they eat every other (non assassin) snail. They are very efficient also.

But yeah that'd be funny, but it wouldn't happen.

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u/ayyyt Aug 18 '22

It's a joke. I have an assassin snail and it does exactly that. Have seen other people's do the same. Some are efficient some aren't

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u/Peti715 Aug 18 '22

I didn't know that mine mercilessly hunted down every single snail. That's weird lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22

True true

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u/Av3ngedAngel Aug 18 '22

I got a couple for that reason but their constant annoyingly loud clicking and destroying my tank's landscape had me have to give them away.

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u/oOAl4storOo Aug 18 '22

I would add a couple of big claw shrimp. Assamense if small fish and rosenbergii if large fish inhabit the tank.

They will take care of snails. They also help cleanup and if you can handle it emotionally, restaurants might buy the rosenbergii ones. (I couldnt, but an colleague does...)