Pointy Snails!

[Crazycat lady]

Hi all. wonder if anyone could advise. I was overrun with little round snails which piggy backed in on the live plants. But then I decided to rescue a pakistani loach (called him Yo-yo) which was all alone in my lsf. He kindly ate all the little round snails. but now I am overrun with pointy snails which Yo-yo doesn't like to eat. I don't wanna add evil chemicals into my tank to kill them so is there a fish that likes to eat them?
Thanx xx

 

[phoenixgsd]

you could try assasin snails

 

[Westcoaster]

You could try sinking some cucumber either with a screwcumber or old fork then fish out when loaded with snails.

 

[Crazycat lady]

Ooo that sounds like a good idea. I have a bearded dragon so always have a supply of cucumber in

 

[sadguppy]

you could try assasin snails

Yo-yo would probably eat them though!

 

[Akasha72]

could they be Malaysian trumpet snails? If so they are actually your friend and not your enemy

They eat debris in the substrate, they eat algae and if you have sand substrate they also help by moving it around and airing it

 

[andyg81]

i think ive got trumpet snails and im getting overrun with them, removing 4-5 per day from my tank !

 

[Akasha72]

they don't breed that quickly as far as I'm aware. Have a look in the invertibrates section there's a pinned topic there that show's pictures if the various snails available. It should help identify what you have