trumpet snails eat plants?

[henward]

as above

also, trumpet snails i hear help aerate silica sand?

any feedback on this?

[SamH]

Trumpet snails have never eaten my plants but yes they can be good for aerating sand.

[BikBok]

they haven't eaten plants in my experience but i wish i never got the darn things. I had some come in as hitchhikers with my kuhlis (the net scooped up some gravel which had 2 baby trumpet snails) ... now I have hundreds of them!

[henward]

well, i have clown loaches. their population can be controled

something to aerate the silica sand i guess.

i love silica sand, i wanna find a solution.

[supasi]

MTS are live bearing snails. They also are able to self fertilise so think very hard before you add them to your tank. Because od the shell shape, some fish wont eat them and the shells are very hard.

[DennisP]

Trumpet snails have never eaten my plants but yes they can be good for aerating sand.

[John Rimbauer]

In my experience they are stupidly sensitive to copper - after I heavily dose trace elements, the rams horns and tiny brown pond snails rock around the tank as happy as, but the trumpet snails stop feeding and surface. It's an easy way to get rid of them if they bother you - a wee bit of copper sulphate.