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I have a tank right now, obviously ........... with a bunch of chiclids in it and a ton of live plants. Now the problem i am running into is that i have a very slight algea build up and i am going to put some ramshorn snails in the tank. My three questions are:

1) I have read that these types of snails will not eat the plants, is this true or are people lying to me?

2) I have heard the certain fish will eat ramshorn snails or at least pick at them, is this true and if so are chiclids one of those "certain fish" and how much should i be concerned?

3) If i can't put ramshorn snails in the tank, then what type of algea controllers should i put?

Thanks for the info.

Nightmare
 
Your cichlids are likely to mess with snails, but we would need to know what types of cichlids they are first.

Ramshorn snails don't often eat plants...but they'll climb all over them to eat the algae which is on them.

We would need a lot more info about the tank and its current inhabitants to be able to tell you more.
 
to be honest, i really don't remember off the top of my head

I know one was a fire belly and one was a ram, but the others were in a store which had all chiclids in one tank and they said to point and pick. They weren't individually labled.
 
I cannot tell you if that is the only one about which you would have to worry because we don't have IDs for all the fish in your tank. Looking back, the biggest worry is some of those cichlids in a planted tank. However, I have heard of FMs eating snails, and I don't know if they would do it only if hungry or just for something to do and eat at any given opportunity (my apologies for posting the hunger thing...sometimes fish just out and out kill and eat because it's possible).
 
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