Not every fish listed is appropriate for every tank, so do your research and learn as much as you can about them before purchasing. I have had them with rasboras, gold barbs, SAEs, and dwarf gouramis with no problems at all. Yoyo Loach Diet and Feeding . GeeMom. Peaceful tetras are also a great pick, like the lemon tetra and the rosy tetra, or ⦠I recently introduced 4 Kuhli Loaches and I'm wondering if they will be interested in small snails ( I realize they won't touch the big ones). if you have trumpet snails the loaches probably wont solve your problem but it will at least keep it to a minimum. Nov 6, 2009 #2 I wouldn't put any ⦠If anyone has experience housing these fish together, I would appreciate your feedback. Will they also eat the Assassins? check out serpentine loaches, I know my pangio oblongas love trumpet snails sold as black kuhli loaches in the pet trade but are not a kuhlii. The egyptian mouthbrooders completely ignore the shrimp now > (they're no bigger than the ones I watched them eat), and I still haven't > seen the yo yo loach go after a ⦠In some cases, they will erase all your snails, while in others they will not pay any attention to them. Any feedback would be great! Do the yo-yo loaches eat snails? Turned out my pea puffer only goes for the small babies and my loaches are too well fed to eat the snails. Therefore, strong filters are needed. Location Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600041. Loaches and pufferfish are well-known for eating snails! I decreased feeding the tank for two reasons: one was to keep the amount of uneaten food and waste lower and Two to keep the loaches hungry. They are very useful weirdos, and will ⦠Honestly, all loaches will eat snails and shrimp. Goldfish: ⦠Like the Clown Loach, this fish spends its time at the bottom of the aquarium actively looking for snails with shells to kill. They probably would actually. I then got ramshorn snails to help control the algae in my humpback puffer tank and for my puffer. Member. thanks, hank . loaches tend to do best in schools of 5 or more. Now I have over 1000 trumpet snails in a 3ft. Clown, skunk, and yoyo loaches all are employed for this cause, and there is long list of other loach species that will do the job as well. 0 0. If you have a bigger tank, more than 100 gallons, you can get clown loaches to eat the snails. The best tank mates for angelfish are livebearers (platies, mollies, swordfish), certain catfish (Corydoras, Twig, bushynose, and bristlenose plecos), and peaceful cichlids, such as keyhole cichlids, loaches (kuhli and yoyo), and Zebra Danios. Yoyos are cute. I had quite a few of them to the point where I saw more snails than fish...then I got my loaches and they do keep the numbers acceptable, so once your mts start ⦠Some people call it a scaleless fish because the scales embedded in ⦠Or you could get some assassin snails which only eat meat be it dead inhabitant or a live snail, Corydoras for a cleaning crew for sure, I keep 18 of them in one tank 5 in ⦠Also, clown loaches (and probably others) are known to enjoy eating snail eggs. 3 years ago. Email connect@hkmchennai.org. If they wouldnt do well together, does anybody have any other methods ⦠Any respectable Clown loach or Yo-Yo Loach would give their right fin for a snail dinner. They will sift through the gravel, sucking any snail they find right out of its shell. I've got a PROLIFIC (trumpet?) I'm getting some Zebra and yoyo loaches. Yoyo loaches are great at getting rid of snails. But they are Very ⦠Share. 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