I have a snail outbreak starting in my tank, and I was wondering if there is a good reputable online source where I can get some assassin snails. I cannot find them at any of my LFS.
I think if you look on ebay you should find some, I have used one person from Ebay before who has a shop name of "the fish hut" and Colin sells them I believe. He does delivery too and I have gotten fish and shrimp from him as he lives near me so I collected. Think he does 4 for £10.
Yeah, I went on vacation and my sister fed them, and I think she was feeding more than I taught her. I have been feeding one small (very small) pinch ever 3 days for the past two weeks, and squishing snails as I see them,but everyday I see more. I have tried the lettuce method as well.there is a sticky soemwhere all about snail control and methods to deal with them. Might be in the inverts section....
if you've had an 'outbreak' it's really only due to one thing......over-feeding. The snail population can only grow if there is plenty for them to feed on. Try reducing the amount of food you are placing in the tank.
Looking to sell? I would gladly take some off your hands if need beI have some ...
Some? When that lot hatch you could supply the eastern sea boardI have some ...
Besides, assassin snails look really cool and they would be a nice addition to the tank as well. I have wanted some for a minute but couldnt find any, but now I have a really good reason to look harder
I wouldn't really say I have ALOT. At any given point in time I can easily spot about 7 snails....I have had a worse breakout before, and ended up gutting the tank, becuase it got so bad (that was before i knew overfeeding caused it, so I kinda had screwed myself on that one) but this time I have taken measure to prevent further growth of the population. I squished three this morning, and saw about 4 more in the tank on various objects, but I wasnt about to go diving lol.Besides, assassin snails look really cool and they would be a nice addition to the tank as well. I have wanted some for a minute but couldnt find any, but now I have a really good reason to look harder
I have a MTS population in my tank specifically to feed a group of five assassins. Be warned that they are not exactly the most voracious of eaters and it may take them many weeks/months to get the pests under control if you really have a lot.
I don't know what my platys would do about a larger snail lol. I know they find the pond snails tasty when I crush them. I saw one of my juvies swimming around with a crushed snail in its mouth.I just got an assassin from the Lfs.
One of my guppies is intrigued by it, she keeps going to look at it.
Took me a while to get the hang of feeding them only what they need. I am still trying to instruct my husband on this art though, as last time he fed my livebearers, it looked like it snowed fish flakes, and I had to do a 90% water change and extreme gravel vac (which sucks because its a hexagon tank that is really tall) and then yesterday I spent about 20 minutes in the cichlid tanks with a net because my husband didn't realize that they only need 2-3 pellets a piece, and he gave them about 20 apiece lol.you are better at feeding than me then. I think I had around 200 MTS in my old 125L from food that got stuck in the gravel! Assassins had a whale of a time in there.
Good question on what to feed them if there are no snails. I'm not sure what else they would eat apart from leftover food. It might be that they also munch on micro-organisms living in the tank but that's just a wild guess.