draining aquarium - hoping to kill off all snails

[charlie]

I would of rather go with  loaches my self but i have African Chiclids and they are aggressive and i think the loaches would of got killed by the African Chiclids ! that's why i went with the assassin snails instead.

Good thinking
http://www.loaches.com/articles/why-loaches-should-not-be-kept-with-malawi-cichlids