Snail Eaters

[SandraNewbie]

I have a friend with a tank which houses a group of endlers (he went mixed sex so we're also having to shift fry back to the LFS soon) and 5 cherry shrimp.

He put a live plant in the tank and it's brought in two types of snail. Hundreds of the standard tanslucenty amber tiny snails (ramshorns?) and a snail with a very black body and olive coloured shell that's about 4 times the size (odd pond snail?).

He's been catching them in a jar (the amber ones) and giving them to me to give to my assassin snails. He's not got assasins himself because we both vaguely remember something about assasins and shrimp being a no no and a quick google search showed wild caught assasins being very hungry for shrimp on introduction.

He'd like to keep the pond snail if possible (not a deal breaker) but would happily lose each and every one of the ramshorns.

What fish will go in this setu up to eat snails? He'd rather a single fish or pair as opposed to a shoal, would need to be shrimp and endler friendly and go in a H 37 x W 60 x D 32 cm. bowfront tank (C. 18-19USg, 60-70L)

 

[lock77]

Sell them!

 

[SandraNewbie]

Sell what?

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I keep cherry shrimp and an assassin together and nothing has been eaten other than pest snails.

 

[cambojnr]

I keep cherry shrimp and an assassin together and nothing has been eaten other than pest snails.

will assasins eat lake limpets? as there are lots of them in my tank now, the first one on the list
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/75554-snail-species/

 

[lock77]

Sell what?

Snails

 

[SandraNewbie]

Sell what?

Snails

Who would buy little ramshorn pests?

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I keep cherry shrimp and an assassin together and nothing has been eaten other than pest snails.

will assasins eat lake limpets? as there are lots of them in my tank now, the first one on the list
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/75554-snail-species/

I've only got the second on the list as pests in my tank and my assassins definitely eat them. As for other snails, I can only go on what I've been told and that is that assassins will eat any other snails except each other and their offspring (unless they have died). My assassins haven't even eaten dead fry, my shrimp have eaten dead fry though.

 

[MBOU]

There are several tiny species of loach knocking about but you might need to friendly up with your LFS and convince them they are a great idea to order in. We had them but they are so tiny that people didnt even notice them so most dont bother stocking them....

Rosy Loach, Tuberoschistura arakanensis
http/www.loaches.com/species-index/tuberoschistura-arakanensis

Vietnamese Multi Banded Zebra Loach,Yunnanilus cruciatus
http/www.loaches.com/species-index/yunnanilus-cruciatus

Both of these species are knocking about in decent shops