Infestation!!! :(
- Thread starter latazyo
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Kuhlis are not efficient snail predators.
Clown loaches do routinely damage plants while nipping snails off the leaves, especially broad-leaf plants such as swords. If you have not seen this yet, your clowns are young. I have become expert ay differentiating clown bites from puffer bites - Clown bites are triangular to Y-shaped, puffer bites half-moon to round.
For snails, if you are infested, you are overfeeding. Reduce the food supply, the excess numbers will fade away.
http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/snail.html
HTH
Clown loaches do routinely damage plants while nipping snails off the leaves, especially broad-leaf plants such as swords. If you have not seen this yet, your clowns are young. I have become expert ay differentiating clown bites from puffer bites - Clown bites are triangular to Y-shaped, puffer bites half-moon to round.
For snails, if you are infested, you are overfeeding. Reduce the food supply, the excess numbers will fade away.
http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/snail.html
HTH
I don't have clowns in there anyways...I don't think I'm gonna get any clowns, but I will take the advice and pick up a few yoyos pretty soon, and yes, overfeeding is a possibility, I try to feed 12 fish enough and in the frenzy, a lot falls to the bottom....the snails also hav4e plenty of algae to eat (not sure if they eat it or not, but I thoguht that might be a cause too)
