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A Pretty Good Solution to Pollution | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
puffers and snails (none / 0) (#12)
by Phry on Sun Nov 09, 2003 at 12:12:10 AM PST

I can't imagine doing that with a guppy OR a puffer... thanks for letting me know of the potential complications, though. I have indeed been keeping it well-fed on snails, because I appreciate the janitorial work the snails perform before they become dinner. I wasn't aware of the importance of keeping snails in there for the puffer's sake, though. My favorite way to get snails is to buy anacharis (elodea canadensis) from almost any LFS; the broad, flat leaves often visibly house dozens and dozens of snail eggs, and provide a great place for snails to lay more. If at some point I needed to breed some snails, though, how would you suggest I set that up?

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If at some point you needed to breed snails... (none / 0) (#13)
by unclescott on Sun Nov 09, 2003 at 01:38:45 AM PST

don't breed them with the Puffer! (rim-shot)

Snails and guppies go together well because their tank requirements are pretty much alike (somewhat hard water, omnivorous diet...). Just keep up the water changes (w/o siphoning too many snails out) and overfeed the guppies. :)

I have some tanks with an R.O. mix for breeding selected killies. There is less mineral in the water. The snails' shells get thinner and thinner, actually dissolving! In time they disappear.

One actually could peddle plants from those tanks as snail free. That is a big deal to a few people breeding egglayers.

As with Guppy Girl's clown loach tank, the younger snails are more at risk. Long term, if someone wanted to get rid of all the snails in an aquarium, they could just keep the water soft or loaches in residence and eventually the tough older snails would die of old age but without issue.

It's funny how we have too much of something which is almost to even a pest - a snail population, greenwater or maybe a rapidly reproducing plant like hornwort or val. When we need it for a special project, there's never enough. ;)

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