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Would snails grown from eggs in an aquarium be a safe loach food?
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Re: Snails
The easiest ones if you can smash the shells yourself and then pick up the waste is MTS they grow big fast and plentiful (malaysian trumpet)adampetherick wrote:Would snails grown from eggs in an aquarium be a safe loach food?
the most nutritious according to my info is the pond snail or 'turbo snail' with the think mottled simple shell
then theres ramshorn but they provide little meat for their size and you dont get much meat versus MTS.
The reason I say smash the MTS shell is that MTS can really sneak to the back of their shell and some loaches cant get em they also burrow- a smashed snail isnt goin anywhere
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I have both MTS and Tadpole snails in my tanks and the loaches love them, it is actually quite amusing watching a 2" Striata or Sidthimunki trying to carry round a 1" MTS and eat it, it takes them a while but they eventually manage it
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If one managed to get under something you will have more. If not...then the yoyos got 'em.
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A few months from now wake up in the middle of the night, use a flashlight to view you tank, and tell us what you see.A few weeks back a guy at a LFS gave me a dozen MTS. I rarely see them, wonder if my YoYo's got them tat fast?
I have sids and kubotai in my 80 gal with a ton of MTS. At night they rise from their graves like the living dead!!!
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