Baby Snails

[MermaidMel]

I have lots of baby ramshorns in my tank. I have never put any ramshorns in. I have put no plants or fish or anything new in my tanks for months.
I am just wondering 2 things, where did they come from and how to I get rid of the little sods!

 

[Corleone]

They could have come in the bag with new fish. Did you get any decorations that had been in another tank?

Lettuce does good for catching them - leave it in overnight, and check early in the morning. Pull the leaf out and throw it away along with the snails. Just about any loach will eat snails, and ramshorns be controlled by watching overfeeding - they need to eat, just like the fish, which generally means scavenging what they fish don't get.

 

[MermaidMel]

They could have come in the bag with new fish. Did you get any decorations that had been in another tank?

Lettuce does good for catching them - leave it in overnight, and check early in the morning. Pull the leaf out and throw it away along with the snails. Just about any loach will eat snails, and ramshorns be controlled by watching overfeeding - they need to eat, just like the fish, which generally means scavenging what they fish don't get.

I haven't put anything in the tank for months. I am stumped how they got there. No new fish, no new plants, nothing. It's like they evolved from thin air. I will do the lettuce thing... I don't have any loaches! I never overfeed, if anything, I am an underfeeder.