Re: When a blessing becomes a curse

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Randy,

At our club and plant auctions people go nuts for the Malaysian Trumpet
snails.  Something about them eating algae, so the y brind a good price at
an auction.  We have them in our tanks, and kill them if we ever treat
with fluke tabs fro Hydra ( I only use 1/2 tablet in 20 gallons and it
still kills all the snails).  I have never had them bother the apisto
eggs/fry that I can tell.  The big regular snails (forbid, a few of them
have made it through)...my apisto's will occasionally pick at and
occasionally eat one.  (only seen that happen once though and it was by
fry)

Kathy


On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Randy & Deb Carey wrote:

> An old-time aquarist gave me advice on how to get rid of this types of snail:
> "Remove the gravel and throw it out.  Sterilize the tank."
> 
> He said they are impossible to get rid of.  Eventually they will over-run the
> tank with many floating across the surface...yuck.  Where I come from, no one
> wants trumpet snails in his/her tanks.
> 
> --Randy
> 
> 
> 
> ALEX PASTOR wrote:
> 
> > I was figuratively patting myself on the back last week for my serendipitous
> > great good fortune in having somehow inadvertently introduced Malaysian
> > trumpet snails into one of my planted tanks.(That sentence reads like
> > something Lilith would have said to Frazier if she would have an aquarium)
> > ... Then I read that these snails eat apisto eggs at night while the mother
> > fish sleeps...ARGHHHHH!!!
> >
> 
> 
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