Still have Pest snails!

[GlennO]

Well some of this is news to me, I've never heard of MTS or Ramshorns eating live plants. I have both types of snails in my tank and have only occasionally observed them munching on some decaying plant matter.

 

[mimo91088]

Well some of this is news to me, I've never heard of MTS or Ramshorns eating live plants. I have both types of snails in my tank and have only occasionally observed them munching on some decaying plant matter.

That's because they don't. I can believe the duckweed roots, but my belief of them eating live plants ends there. People new to plants often kill their plants, and then when they see the snails cleaning up the mess, assume the snail to be the culprit. When in reality the culprit is almost always some environmental factor that caused the plant to melt.

 

[Lypress]

MTS. Those ones also aerate your substrate. Good snails. Looks like you have a lot of algae. (Not judging, algae is another less pretty, but still healthy part of the ecosystem as well) Try cutting back your lighting a bit and that might keep them off the glass when the food source up there goes away.

Yes I turned up the heat and keep forgetting to turn the lights out. I’ll fix it. The green water looks so yucky and algae always stinks too. Honestly I think most if not all the plant damage was from the Ramshorn snails. Looking again at my old photos everywhere I saw plant damage was where all the Ramshorn snails were. My few Ramshorn I had last week are gone as far as I know. My assassin snails gobble those first. I’m getting new fish for Christmas and plan on getting 3 clown loaches. I picked out 3 clown loaches, 3 German blue rams, 2 blue Gouramis, at least 3 roseline sharks, 1 blood red parrot. This list will most likely change. Anyone know if starfire red tiger barbs are good in a community tank? If yes how many is recommended for my 90 gallon? Currently I have:

1 angelfish
3 SAE
2 swordtails
7 corys
4 KuhlI loaches
1 pleco

Thanks for the help!!

 

[GlennO]

Tiger Barbs can work in community tanks if there are no smaller peaceful fish (like small tetras) that they can pick on or slower moving long finned fish that they may nip at. Might be an issue with the Angelfish, and possibly Gouramis.

 

[Lypress]

Ah ok, definitely wouldn’t work then. AHHHHHHH THE SNAILS THE SNAILS!! They taking over!)

Oops meant to attach these lol

 

[KinderScout]

We had snails. They multiplied. We spent two months carefully picking each one out when we saw it and put them in the water butt in the garden. A dozen at once on one occasion. We then had no snails - still don't. Maybe we were lucky? Not sure of snail physiology but always worried that squishing might release eggs? Now new plants get left in a bucket of untreated tap water for two days before thorough rinsing prior to adding to the tank.