what snails to feed clown loaches

[the loach master]

well hello yall this is my first time here but not my first time with clown loaches. i was wanting to know what other snails are easy and good for clown loaches to eat besides the mystery snails i give them

[glenna]

mine gobble down pond snails.... I wish I could send you about a hundred!!!
I have this one tank that just seems to have constant snail reproduction. I feed snails from that tank to all the others.

[the loach master]

so since you can give me any do you know were the best place to get them at is?

[redshark1]

Mine seemed to enjoy Ramshorn snails.

They must be cultivated snails not wild ones, to avoid parasites.

[Diana]

Pretty much any fish store will have pond snails infesting their tanks. Around here, I got them for free, just for asking. I set the snails up in a tank of their own, no fish, until they started to overpopulate the tank, then I spread them around all the tanks that have Loaches (most of my tanks, that is). I still have pond snails in the tanks without Loaches, so I keep on moving them into the Loach tanks.

I have not found my Loaches very interested in Ramshorn snails. I have a pretty good population in several different tanks that include Weather Loaches, Kubotai, Kuhlies, young Clowns (In the other tank with larger Clowns there are no snails that I can find).

I bring in garden snails (Escargot) to feed the larger Clown Loaches.

I have Malaysian Trumpet Snails in most tanks. I think the shells are too hard for most fish, and my fish do not seem to have learned other ways to eat them.