Survival of the fittest... Snails?

[Lupin]

I've been researching them the last several days.

I've read some people say they'll eat small snails but not big snails- and I've seen others say they've had Kuhlis with snails and the Kuhlis never touched a single one... I suppose it might vary on the individual fish.

Never had the experience of owning Kuhlis- this will be a first for me. I'm also not sure when people say they eat "small snails" if that means newly hatched snails- or just any smaller than their mouth.

Either way- not too concerned- the MTS, were I to get them, would be in the tank and breeding before the Kuhlis and I doubt they'd find them all. Any ornamentals would be too big for them (I suspect).

There about 3 species ahead of the Kuhlis on my checklist that I'm going to add before the Kuhlis... Snails would have AT LEAST a month head start to become baby machines.

I had not lost any hatchlings to adult apple snails when I placed them with my dojo and kuhli loaches. Kuhlis don't eat snails. It's not in their nature to do that unless something in their diet is missing that prompt them to attempt eating the snails. If they were starved, that's another story. Crush the snail and let them feed, they'll get a taste and it becomes another story but in general, they ignore the snails.