Snail eating fish??

[Chris Harbaugh]

Can someone give me some recommendations for a fish that will eat snails??

 

[RyanSweet]

What type of snail?

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

What kind of snails?

You can get a dogface or porcupine puffer and they will eat all the snails.

You can come down here and borrow my melanurus wrasse and he will eat all of your ceriths ;)

 

[Chris Harbaugh]

What kind of snails?

You can get a dogface or porcupine puffer and they will eat all the snails.

You can come down here and borrow my melanurus wrasse and he will eat all of your ceriths ;)

These are not zeroth snails, although they are shaped like them, only smaller.. much smaller. They have black, spiral shells that get no larger than 1/4 inch long and breed like wildfire on the open prairie. I also have a problem with a snail that forms a tube, calcified that lets out stringers to capture food from the water column. I have way too many of them. I have read about them being a problem irritating corals. I have a 4 line wrasse but he doesn't touch any of these animals

 

[Chris Harbaugh]

These are not zeroth snails, although they are shaped like them, only smaller.. much smaller. They have black, spiral shells that get no larger than 1/4 inch long and breed like wildfire on the open prairie. I also have a problem with a snail that forms a tube, calcified that lets out stringers to capture food from the water column. I have way too many of them. I have read about them being a problem irritating corals. I have a 4 line wrasse but he doesn't touch any of these animals

Cerith, #@$%% auto correct...

 

[kashman100]

The 2nd one sounds like vermetid snails. You can just break them off or glue the hole shut if you can remove the rock

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Sounds like pyramid snails to me! :eek:.

I would suggest getting a combo of a yellow coris wrasse and a melanurus wrasse or Christmas wrasse. If you've got the money a mystery wrasse would do some work on them and be a stunning addition to your tank, just make sure you have a lid on your tank for all of these fish.

 

[Chris Harbaugh]

The 2nd one sounds like vermetid snails. You can just break them off or glue the hole shut if you can remove the rock

Yup that's them..ive started doing that.. but my rocks are starting too look like a modern art sculpture. A whole lot of weird..

 

[Chris Harbaugh]

Sounds like pyramid snails to me! :eek:.

I would suggest getting a combo of a yellow coris wrasse and a melanurus wrasse or Christmas wrasse. If you've got the money a mystery wrasse would do some work on them and be a stunning addition to your tank, just make sure you have a lid on your tank for all of these fish.

They get larger than pyramids snails. Much larger and they don't bother my squamosa or crocea that much.. every now and then I see them on those 2 but not often. Like I said they get up too 1/4 inch long with black, spiral shells

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Yea the more I looked into the more I realized you weren't describing pyramid snails. I thought there was a black variety of them but that doesn't seem to be the case. Still though, those fish that I mentioned should work on at least reducing their numbers a good bit. The snails don't eat corals do they?

 

[Chris Harbaugh]

Yea the more I looked into the more I realized you weren't describing pyramid snails. I thought there was a black variety of them but that doesn't seem to be the case. Still though, those fish that I mentioned should work on at least reducing their numbers a good bit. The snails don't eat corals do they?

If I have a coral that is bleaching, yes. I have been having issues with my acro's that I believe is solved.. I just got these thing as a hitch hiker and it's time for them too go.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Your 4line wrasse will limit other wrasse additions, and clams will limit puffers.

Skipping feeding 1 day a week will help the 4line want to hunt the small snails.

Feeding less per meal will also help bring the numbers down.

 

[Ocelaris]

Also I've never heard of anything eating vermetid snails. But don't worry, they're a phase and will eventually subside.