The MTS do not eat mouthbrooder eggs. They also are easily dispatched with some good small clownloaches I have found. Or, skunk loaches seem to work as well. Clay -----Original Message----- From: matt kaufman [mailto:igotadose@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:37 AM To: gsas-member@thekrib.com Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Malaysian Trumpet Snails (MTS) It's a matter of what you want your tanks for. If you're interested in breeding fish, those malaysian snails are a disaster - they eat fish eggs big time. Further, in my experience, it's basically impossible to rid yourselves of them once they've established themselves, which doesn't take too long. I'm not so sure they don't eat plants - I never had any success with the 'soft leaved' plants like bacopa and any red plants when I had trumpet snails. Perhaps anubias and echinodorus do o.k. as they're too chewy, I don't know. I've gotten infestations by moving (what I though) was dried out driftwood from one tank to another. They're really annoying creatures Ramshorns snails are my favorite, they're not as prolific as the trumpet snails and relatively easy to control plus are useful in fry tanks. If you feed them lots of beta carotene, you can turn the ramshorns bright red, too. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member