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Is there a certain type of snail that will kill loaches if they eat it?


I recently gave them a few snails that a friend gave us. the snails shells have stripes on them. these snails doubled their size in a week. that is the only other thing i can think of that is giving my loach problems right now. they were put in the tank more than 4 days ago.

Any snail can kill loaches. (Snails can carry a lot of different infections.)

However, I'd consider Ammonia at > 1.0 as you have now to be the far more likely reason for the problems.

thanks mike. i see milky substance coming from the loaches gills and rectal area. its milky white. hes covered in a bit of a slimy looking coating.

Yeap, I just saw you mentioning this. Will post on the other thread.

Mike, could i get you to elaborate on this. I have some snails that I am worried may have caused this. Although I do not know, I would rather find out before I feed more of them to my loaches. The snails are getting double their size in a weeks time. They have brown stripes on the shells. I will try and get a picture up later tonight.