Larry Blanchard said:

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:05:05 -0500, Greg G. wrote:

The platys will take hard, even brachish water. Get yourself a freshwater
puffer fish and your pond snail problem will be taken care of instanter.

Many species of loaches eat snails as well. My grey worm loach keeps the
numbers down considerably. I actually _put_ snails into my tanks, but not
the common, plant eating, pond snail variety.

Are you sure this isn't the aquarium newsgroup? grin

It's been the political, phishing, troll newsgroup, so what the hey...

Yep, I bought some clown loaches which, like the suggested pleco, will
outgrow my tanks eventually. The biggest I'll ever have room for is an
18"x36", which is either a 50 or a 55, I forget.

The kuhlii loaches stay much smaller, and are pretty interesting.
They mass up in groups, being social, and do a number on small snails.
(If you like squirmy fish that look like eels...)

I've found it hard to find interesting fish these days. All the
independents have gone out of business, and the Chain's carry nothing
but the same-old-crap. When I was a kid, there was a really cool
store in Lindburg that carried an unbelievable variety of stock.

But the city got 100 times bigger, and the selection got 100 times
smaller. Go figure - it's the same with restaurants and just about
everything else. The BORGs are consuming everything non-mainstream.



Greg G.