Snails VS Yoyo & Blue botia loach

UnderWaterDiver

UnderWaterDiver

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Hi,

I read on the internet that Yoyo and blue botia loach that they will eat
snails and it's some sort of delicacy for them.

So how come i have snails in my tank ??
I never till now seen a loach attack and eat a snail. And i think i am not over feeding my fish, i even have 1 day a week no food day for them, so they should go for the hunt.... but.. nothing..

My loaches are vegetarians??
 
Have you noticed empty shells at all? If so, there is your evidence they are eating the snails. Blue loaches are nocturnal by nature and will not show up during daytime. What else do you feed your fish? What snails do you have?
 
Hi, never seen a empty shell, but then again the snails are small..
when they are small they look like ramshorn snail but when they get bigger they not so flat anymore, and big is maybe 5mm .. so not supper big.

I feed them some bottom feeder stuff and some sinking pallets also i from time to time give some bloodworm.
 
Do you have pics of the snails? I wonder what these are. As I see it, snails with trapdoors often are ignored especially when loaches have better food options available although in some cases, loaches work very hard pestering a snail to death until they penetrate its soft parts assuming the snail has an operculum (trapdoor). Do your snails proliferate quickly? Do you use sand or gravel?
 
Hi,

I have no pics right now of the snails., will try to make some this weekend, but i think they don't have a trap door, cause if i pick one up with pincet i can still see the soft flesh part..

I have 2 yoyo's now, i used to have 3 but one died on me some time ago, not sure why.. He was very skinny while the other 2 where ok /fat looking..

I have 1 Botia, i used to have 2 until 1 attacked the other so much that he lost his dorsal fin, i then took the attacker out and give to somebody, and the one with the lost dorsal i kept, now it is totaly grown back and you would not know it was once gone. Actualy I am very fond of him, he looks very beautiful, and is ok with the other fish..

But when I bought the Botia's i was TOTALY miss informed, i was assured they where absolutly not aggressive and would stay small... I should have inverted any comment the sales person made back then..... So now days if i buy a fish again i check internet first and ignore sales person.... ;-)

Oh, i use some soil and gravel mix
soil something like this:
http://sangaqua.co.kr/mall/m_mall_detail.php?ps_ctid=09000000&ps_goid=4428&ps_page=1



Thx.
 
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IMHO, loaches eating snails and ridding tanks of snails is way overstated. Clown loaches....hands down, yum-yum-yum! Others....not so much or not at all. My sids have never been seen going after or eating a snail. But the clowns....they pick one up and swim to a quiet place to enjoy escargot!
 
If you want them to eat the snails, try crushing a few against the glass. Once they find out the snails are food they'll eat them more especially if you skip a feeding once in a while.
 
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