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i used to have a heavily planted tank that i had direct CO2 injection and i monitored the nutrient levels for the plants. it was cool until algae took over and i stopped caring.

but i had a ton of snails pop up in there too. i dind't actually mind. they ate all the algae growing on the leaves and the glass that i couldn't get to and anything the fish couldnt eat.

you can control them via how much food is in the tank. if theres a lot of algae,leftover food, etc. theres going to be a lot of snails. if you control your algae by not having an excess in nitrogen in the tank, which the plants did help with, and you dont over feed your fish to the point where they dont eat everything, then you wont have a lot of snails.

right now in my new planted tank, i have lots of malaysian trumpet snails that are kept to a low population because theres not a lot going on in that tank. i have one betta fish in there at eats all the food and i dont do anything but pump co2 in to the tank.

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