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I need something peaceful to eat snails

Get a little Frenchman.

Sorry.

LOL, Janma. The mental picture that conjures up is going to be good for a laugh for a while for me!

Kate

kuhlifan wrote:Disaster! She ended up flushing the cichlids and puffer because they killed the mollies and fought each other.

I've been tutoring her some and things have calmed a little...no more revenge flushing that I know of. However, she is very against dwarf puffers since that, and if the new puffer would happen to be aggressive, well, you know.

I'll just tell her to bait and scoop and then cut feedings down. I don't know how effective she'll be at that, but we can try it.

P.S.
I like the snails too....

I am so happy she has you to help her out. I can't imagine flushing a fish. That would hurt me.

I am sure cramming that many fish in a 5 gallon is what did the trick to causing such extreme aggression. I have bigger tanks, so the fish don't feel like they need to eliminate the competition. I do a lot of reading on fish species before I buy to work on compantibility. She definitely should not buy a fish to take care of a snail problem.

I wish I had snail problems. I breed them, because I can't keep enough for my loaches and puffers. Good luck.

She could buy the loach to eat the snails then buy a big new tank for a school of loaches. Clowns and Yo-yos love snails and grow big eating them!