Help with snail infestation

[gwabbie]

well, you could give them away to someone else who might need the pufferfish or u could sell them after clearing the snails.

there are some local fish shop that sell slightly larger puffer fish, not those that require brackish water.

[Quixotic]

Yes, you could give them away, but for those that are not may not know how "uncute" the puffer is when keeping with other fishes.

Now, that is exactly the common misconception of new aquarists. Those commonly found bigger puffers ARE indeed brackish water puffers.

They are possibly kept in freshwater at the LFS due to the projected fast turnover. However, when kept too long in freshwater, they are prone to all kinds of disease and problems, which is why you often see them not doing too well eventually in the LFS.

Take some time to read the section on puffers of the brackish water FAQ.
http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/aquar...kfaqpart3.html

The larger ones like Spotted Puffers (Tetraodon nigroviridis) and Figure of Eight (Tetraodon biocellatus) are brackish water puffers.

The even larger ones, Fahaka (Tetraodon lineatus), Mbu (Tetraodon mbu) and Congo (Tetraodon miurus) are freshwater puffers but will get too large and isn't planted tank friendly.

Only two are truly freshwater, stay relatively small and suitable, i.e. dwarf puffer (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) and South American puffer (Colomesus asellus) but the latter shimpment is very infrequent.

Edit: Apologies to Caesar for dragging this off topic.

[Justikanz]

The best way to control snails is still to limit the amount of food available to them... That way, you do not have to worry about problems like loaches not doing their supposed work, loaches destroying your scape, puffers eating your shrimps, puffers eating your smaller fish, puffers tearing the fins of bigger fish, finding new owners for puffers who did their jobs and overstayed their welcome, anti-snail medication destroying your bacteria and shrimps etc...

Simply reduce feeding to feed only once a day... And feed enough for the fish to consume within 1-3 mins... That's good enough...

Oh, btw, those trumpet snails? Finding 1 usually mean you will find a few more soon... And that means in a couple of months time, you can see hundreds crawling around, especially at night...