ml> explosion? peel? are you talking about snails? get a goldfish or two...
ml> they'll eat'em... they did mine :)

 JS> I would be hesitant to put goldfish in a community tropical fish
 JS> tank. Not only are they not tropical fish, but they are dirty fish
 JS> as well, and often carry disease, such as anchor worm, which can be
 JS> a real bugger to get rid of once it gets in a tank. I remember when
 JS> I was managing a pet store not quite twenty years ago, in addition
 JS> to medicating the tanks, we had to manually pull the anchor worms
 JS> out of their bodies.

ewww... i only have two words for something like that... reputable
dealer... in other words, the one you buy from... someone upstream from you
wasn't "playing fair"... i've never had problems like that and
generally end up with at least one goldfish in most of my tank setups...
they're not that "dirty" if you take care of the tank properly ;)

)\/(ark