Backyard Aquaponics
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What harm are they doing?

I have started feeding the snails to the trout. They snap them up just like pellets. I have stopped disliking them so much now.

I have tried to feed them to my Barramundi but with no success , I will try again, but I will pull them out and put them with my silver perch. I will keep you posted. I hope they do as they are breeding so bloody quick . This would save a bit on food. Maybe I should try one.

I have caught cat fish in my dirt tanks that are full of snails. It is so dry here the dirt tanks are droping down fast and snails are stacked up on all sides about 1 ft. wide. Jerry

If your water parameters suport them, and you are allowed to have them there, clown loaches are voracious snail eaters.

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/mix/clownloach.php

Tropical freshwater fish.

Yeah we can get them here, and I have one in my aquarium. Great gravel burrowing feeders and I have also heard they love snails

My Tilapia from 2" up, eat snails up until the snails are about 3/4"+ in size, and don't seem to bother them much, once they reach that size

any time i find a bunch of small ones that the Tilapia cant get to, i scrape them up and throw them in with some 4 to 6" Tilapia, and they don't last long.......

RS