fishchick

I need to get a loach really bad, but really worried about the loach bothering my angel fish ! I have marble , in a 75 gall tank ! i have had the MTS for months and months , i have been picking the snails out of the tank as they come up to the top and trashing them ! It is driving me insane !

harpua2002

There's nothing wrong with having MTS in a tank. They help keep your substrate stirred and clean up any uneaten food. Just cover the filter intakes to make sure they don't get in. I'm not a fan of adding fish to perform a job in a tank- I prefer to add fish because I like them in their own right. Many loaches won't even touch MTS anyway. Rather than getting fish to take care of a problem, think about why there is an abundance of MTS. Overfeeding is a likely cause- the population will explode when there is a lot of uneaten food in the system. Try cutting back some on feeding. Manual removal is a good option and can help keep the population down at acceptable levels. Put a piece of washed romaine lettuce in a tupperware container on the substrate and wait. In the morning, pull the container out. The lettuce should be covered in snails.

fishchick

ok