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[Heather R]

Funny you should mention this will help Clown Loaches, I was thinking the same thing! Maybe now that these snails are available, people will not buy huge fish that they cannot properly house long term, to control snails. Now they can get a nice snail to do the job. I would assume that this snail would work well in almost any size aquarium?

I would like to try to get two or three of them and observe them for a few months.
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[Liveinabox419]

Dusko, how would I be able to get my hands on 2 or three of these guys? Any online spot you know of have any?
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[FiftyCalibre]

That is very cool!

I hope they make it legal to import into Australia. I could use some!

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[Jacko]

Unfortunately I have been looking into them and they don't eat their own kind. They have one egg about every 10 days and don't reproduce if there aren't other snails to feed on so you don't need to worry about them overpopulating unless you have a ton of snails. They eat 4 snails per week according to one place, and that is the only place I can read that has any info on how often they eat.

I'm thinking about getting a couple right now, but if I get them I'd have to worry about them and tower snails together so I have to rethink all my tanks.
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[Ariaanna]

Looks like these guys are already available (albeit in very short supply) on aquabid: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwinverts&1215055776

I told my boyfriend about these guys and he thinks they're voodoo magic. If anyone gets any, please share your observations and experience with the rest of us!

[Dusko]

Marcos I promised better photos, here they are.

I got 5 Anentome helena. I placed 3 into my 11 galls Red Cherry planted tank with lots of MTSnails and 2 into my 11 galls Miniature Forest planted aquarium.

I can already see them eating the Malaysian Trumpet Snails. They don't attack their heads (you can see MTS's head in this photo), but instead go for the foot and then eat the inside first (hard to see).

Photo showing how Anentome helena snail eats the MTS




Regards, Dusko
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[Heather R]

Dusko, I have to ask a question about these little gems! What do they like to feed on if there is not a population of other snails for them? I would like to get some but if they eat all my "little brown snails" that arrived on some plants, I don't want them to starve. What do you suggest as an alternative snack for them?
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[FISHBOY3]

I was reading about these in practical fishkeeping recently. They said that they only eat a snail a day.

[Jacko]