[AquaticLife] loaches
Look online at photos of MTS - Malaysian Trumpet Snails. If you have MTS, then they have very hard shells but loaches usually suck the snails out of the shell so it would seem they could still go after the MTS if they get hungry enough. Maybe the MTS meat doesn’t appeal to them.
Did you bring one of the snails to your “guru” fish lady or is she just going by your description of pointy? While MTS do have pointy shells, many other snails also have pointy shells so that is not enough of a description to know they are MTS for certain.
MTS snails are not the same as nuisance snails since they do not as readily breed. Many people actually like having MTS.. I know I do.. since they help with cleaning up any uneaten food in the gravel since they like to burrow into the substrate. People with sand substrates like MTS since they’ll keep the sand from getting compacted, which can cause anaerobic bacterial problems.
If you do not have MTS, then the loaches should do their job.
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