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Originally Posted by soyadude
They eat close to anything. They love things with a hard exoskeleton or a shell(shrimps, snails). They'll even bite legs off shrimps that are too large for them. Definitely not to be kept with small(or even larger) invertebrates.... very useful for snail extermination but clown loaches work just as well.
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Hi dude...
Very much interested to get a puffer for snail extermination purposes but after seeing all this, somehow i have a big worry for my Yamato shrimps in my tank. I have a small 2 ft planted tank which i have abt 6 yamatos now.....currently i have this big problem with snail infestation that almost every evening after work...i would need to use a tweezer to pick up the snails from my tank as seems it is eating up my plants plus the rate of reproduction is very fast. Daily pick up would be at least about 20 - 30 snails....Not too sure how to control this problem.....LFS asked me to use those anti-snail chemical but i doubt it as i worry it might kill fishes as well.
Hope someone here would share any good methods to minimise the snail .....was thinking of getting those dwarf freshwater puffer ( carinotetradon travancoricus).....very cute and small puffer which i think might not attack the yamatos....Clown loach...i think its useful but i read from other articles....clown loach is not suitable for planted as it might mess up the gravel etc.... i worry it might dig up the riccias which i have it planted at the foreground.....