what if you put one DP in a ten gallon with the common pond snails would it be able to eat all of them before they reproduced?
Depends... it is possible if you haven't take care of certain variables:
1) you need the tank to be infested with snails. this means keeping the tank with little to nothing else... and feeding lots of shrimp pellets, flake, etc... for the snails to eat. As mentioned earlier in the thread, give them a few months to build their population first. It should get to a point where the puffers will get full, and then slowly pick off snails, yet the snails reproduce fast enough to replace what get's eaten.
2) A densely planted aquarium is best, to allow hiding spots for snails and their eggs. It doesn't have to be live plants, fake plants, caves really help too.
lovesfish said:
Cool, thanks for the info.
you're welcome