How many Assasin's to clear a tank of snail's

[reefdive]

I have a couple of my 65 tank's overun with snail's , but that's my fault for buying used tank's I suppose . Just wondering I have quad's of assasin's in each of the 3 tank's and I see them mating how long to control the pond snail's and ramshorn's . I have a clown loach as well and he is eating some but in a month he is not controling them yet in 20 and 30 gallon tank's with the assasin's . hhmmm will the clown eat my assaasin's ? any guess's will be helpful

[killer007]

better just put a big boiled veg leave in the tank and attract the snails and than take the leave out
than you are controling the snail very fast and do that many times or 1 time a week, you snail will be min...

[reefdive]

Thank's somrtime's I miss the obvious

[Jimmy85]

few hundred snails in my 20gal long tank
i put 3 assassins and took about 2months

[Furcifer158]

I agree with killer007, Assassin snails will not clear your tank of snails.

[Nubster]

I added 11 assassins to my 75g that was overloaded with MTS, ramhorn, and pond snails. In just a couple weeks the number of visible snails is down more than 50%. I'd say that in the next couple weeks I'll probably remove all but maybe 4 of the assassins to see if they maintain. I do think that assassin snails can all but eliminate all the other snails in a tank if there are enough of them or given enough time.

[lillith112]

I have this problem also, my 4 tanks are full of snails, I tried 3 Assasins in my 35 litre tank, they did eat quite a few but nowhere near enough or fast enough to make a difference. I think you would need a fair few of them to really clear a tank.
I think your clown would definately have a go at eating Assasins. Freshwater puffers are amazing at eating snails but they are aggresive towards anything else and shrimps would be dinner too
Julia.