Best Snail Eater for my 10g Betta Tank?

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:42 pm

My 10g Betta Tank has been overun with Rams & MTS snails. I moved at least 1000 to my breeder tank.
I've had good success catching Rams, but not MTS. They don't seem to be falling for the cucumber trick.
I'm trying to find a Snail Eater that will keep the Rams and MTS in check, but hopefully leave the Mystery Snail alone.

My LFS has YoYos for $5 and Monkeys for $12.
Only other loaches I can find locally are Clowns & DoJos

http://www.loaches.com/articles/an-intr ... ping-botia

LilGreenPuffer · Post by **LilGreenPuffer** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:58 pm

Assassin snails. There's not a 100% guarantee that they'll leave the mystery snail alone, but they've ignored mine, and they've ignored my nerites too. They breed so slowly that they won't overrun your tank once the other snails are gone, and if you do wind up with more than you want, they sell well.

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:02 pm

LilGreenPuffer wrote:Assassin snails. There's not a 100% guarantee that they'll leave the mystery snail alone, but they've ignored mine, and they've ignored my nerites too. They breed so slowly that they won't overrun your tank once the other snails are gone, and if you do wind up with more than you want, they sell well.

I've read many places they don't do much. I take it yours are pretty active in keeping the population down?

Is this a good price?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Assassin-Snail-3-pa ... 3f0225ae24

chuckfriedrice · Post by **chuckfriedrice** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:15 pm

check on aquabid aswell

Post by **bertie 83** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:37 pm

I have had assassin snails and they did help, a little for a 10 gal I would put in a couple of badis badis they love snails and are lovely to look at, they do get territorial with their own kind but are smaller than a tetra so don't need too much room. They will only eat small snails tho but this will massively reduce the population if you pick out the big ones. I never saw mine eat anything I put in but they always looked well fed and snail population was minimal all the time they were there

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:39 pm

chuckfriedrice wrote:check on aquabid aswell

never heard of them. thanks

LilGreenPuffer · Post by **LilGreenPuffer** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:02 pm

CyberBob wrote:
LilGreenPuffer wrote:Assassin snails. There's not a 100% guarantee that they'll leave the mystery snail alone, but they've ignored mine, and they've ignored my nerites too. They breed so slowly that they won't overrun your tank once the other snails are gone, and if you do wind up with more than you want, they sell well.
I've read many places they don't do much. I take it yours are pretty active in keeping the population down?

Is this a good price?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Assassin-Snail-3-pa ... 3f0225ae24

That's a terrible price!!! OMG! Ripoff alert! Try http://www.bobstropicalplants.com or plantedtank.net's Swap-and-Shop forum.

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:02 am

LilGreenPuffer wrote:That's a terrible price!!! OMG! Ripoff alert! Try http://www.bobstropicalplants.com or plantedtank.net's Swap-and-Shop forum.

Thank, I like them better the Ebay

3x Assasin Snails + shipping = $15.45. Not a big difference though. I could get 5 snails from Bob's for the price of 4 on eBay basically.

bertie 83 wrote:I have had assassin snails and they did help, a little for a 10 gal I would put in a couple of badis badis they love snails and are lovely to look at, they do get territorial with their own kind but are smaller than a tetra so don't need too much room. They will only eat small snails tho but this will massively reduce the population if you pick out the big ones. I never saw mine eat anything I put in but they always looked well fed and snail population was minimal all the time they were there

Never thought of badis, I'll definetly have to check them out.
Are these what you mean?
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... catid=2823

Post by **bertie 83** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:01 am

That's them they are great fish. IMO their details are wrong about them if you need to know more let me know

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:44 am

bertie 83 wrote:That's them they are great fish. IMO their details are wrong about them if you need to know more let me know

what details are wrong? I always want research before I buy a fish

I'm guessing these would these be too big for a 10g ... I like Blue Better

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... catid=1074

Post by **bertie 83** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:01 am

Firstly IMO they are perfect community fish, they do stand their ground but so does a betta. They stay small and spend all their time on the bottom so is better if not too much going on down there lol. They hated my Chinese algae eater tho. These are my wife's favourite fish we will be putting some in the new setup when I can get the tank and not smash it doing what I want to do with it. Saying this there are a few colour variances so may have different temperaments however they look the same, I have kept the red kind, they have neon blue fins lovely to look at

CyberBob · Post by **CyberBob** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:45 pm

bertie 83 wrote:Firstly IMO they are perfect community fish, they do stand their ground but so does a betta. They stay small and spend all their time on the bottom so is better if not too much going on down there lol. They hated my Chinese algae eater tho. These are my wife's favourite fish we will be putting some in the new setup when I can get the tank and not smash it doing what I want to do with it. Saying this there are a few colour variances so may have different temperaments however they look the same, I have kept the red kind, they have neon blue fins lovely to look at

That's OK ... I hate chinese algae eaters also. I liked them until they started sucking on my fish.

Post by **bertie 83** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:49 pm

Yea and stop eating algae lol one kissed my fahaka and the chase was on lol

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