Snail eating fish with corys

[Zoeeannee]

I have sterbas corys, salt and pepper corys and Pygmy corys. I have a trumpet snail infestation and I am thinking of getting clown loaches to deal with this but I am nervous that they might also pose a threat to my small corys.

Can someone please advise?

Also I have guppies, angels, cardinals, glow light tetras and platties which I think are find with clown loaches?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Don’t get fish to “get rid of” an issue - they usually cause more issues than they resolve.

Did you see @Byron‘s post in your other thread?

 

[Circus]

Clown loaches get way too big to purchase on a whim or just for snails. Each one will exceed 12". You are better off with manually removing the snails or using snail traps.

 

[Colin_T]

Most loaches don't eat Malaysian trumpet snails because the snail's shells are too hard. Once the snails are in the tank, they are usually there until you take the tank apart and start again. You can use copper to kill the snails but it will kill any shrimp in the tank and it's best to remove the fish while using copper. Then flush the tank after the snails are dead and refill it with dechlorinated water, wait a few days and put the fish back in.

 

[BluewaterBoof]

Could always toss some assassin snails in there. I once had a nasty bladder snail infestation in one of my first tanks and a handful of assassins were not only cool-looking additions to the tank but they cleared out the pest snails within a week or so.

 

[Byron]

I have sterbas corys, salt and pepper corys and Pygmy corys. I have a trumpet snail infestation and I am thinking of getting clown loaches to deal with this but I am nervous that they might also pose a threat to my small corys.

Can someone please advise?

Also I have guppies, angels, cardinals, glow light tetras and platties which I think are find with clown loaches?

First point to make, is why the Malaysian Trumpet/Livebering Snails are there? They are there because there are excess organics on which they feed...all fish excrement, dead plant matter, overfed fish foods, insufficient water changes or substrate or filter cleanings for the bioload, etc. The snails will only reproduce to the level for which there is food, and you, the aquarist, control that.

No mention is made of the tank size (volume and dimensions) but it sounds like it might be relatively heavily stocked. Not much more one can say about that until we know the data.

MLS are actually one of your best friends in an aquarium; they burrow throughout the substrate, keeping it healthy. Control the organics and you control the snails. And control should never involve a fish specific to deal with snails as they invariably have their own issues...clown loaches for example need a group of five, they get 10-12 inches (30cm) in length, establish an hierarchy and defend their territories, and need at minimum an 8-foot (2400 cm) length tank. And they cannot be combined with cories.