Evil Little Snails

[Meggie :)]

I do have 5 gallon bucket, but the only thing is that I have separated substrate and a ton of live plants...I have a separater that is separating the black sand from the fluval plant substrate so it would be a PAIN emptying the tank and keeping the two different substrates separated when doing so and it would be hard to replant all of the plants I have in there back to the way they are now because a lot of them are rooted

 

[This Old Spouse]

and they shouldn't go after my 2 month old balloon molly fry or shrimp or anything?

Nope.

 

[This Old Spouse]

I would go with assassin snails as well. When I was really new and dumb at this(not saying newbies are dumb lol) I bought a couple of clown loaches to help. Well I went to a fish store and saw an adult clown loach and though GEEZ that is a big boy. Well, I do not have a tank to accomadate that much fish, so even though I enjoyed those loaches, as they were really neat to watch, I had to rehome them. They were only about 2 inches long at the time I rehomed them, but long story short, I bought fish to solve a problem and ended up with more that I would be able to handle in the future. If you cannot get assasin snails, I finally got rid of the problem when I moved tanks. I was able to rinse everything out and let it dry, so of course the snails died and problem was solved.

Now please someone correct me if I am wrong with this advise. If your tank is cycled completely, what you could potentially do is put some of your current tank water in a large bucket with the filter, and empty your tank. Rinse the gravel really with hot water to rid of snail eggs, (you may want to rinse out your filter but take your media out first so the warm tap water doesnt kill your bioload.) and rinse all of your ornaments and the tank itself. This should kill all snail and when you readd water and dechlorinate, your still have your media so your tank will be cycled, and your problem will be solved. The only thing I am think though, is that is a 100% water change almost and I may be thinking way out in left field on this idea. Unless you have a bucket to accomadate 50% of your tank water.....


Please someone correct me if this is bad advice.

I think this isn't the greatest advice. It's a whole lot more work than she needs to do, IMHO. Start by cutting your feeding in half. Get the assassin snails. Do weekly gravel/sand vacs to get rid of extra food. Get some ghost shrimp to help with the extra food between vacs. Relax.

 

[Meggie :)]

I have 3 ghost shrimp, 2 cherry shrimp as of right now do you think I can put a few amanos in there as well as I am going to the pet store right now? I don't get to go to this store often as it is an hour away so I want to get all that I need there today

 

[Dieses Madchen]

I would go with assassin snails as well. When I was really new and dumb at this(not saying newbies are dumb lol) I bought a couple of clown loaches to help. Well I went to a fish store and saw an adult clown loach and though GEEZ that is a big boy. Well, I do not have a tank to accomadate that much fish, so even though I enjoyed those loaches, as they were really neat to watch, I had to rehome them. They were only about 2 inches long at the time I rehomed them, but long story short, I bought fish to solve a problem and ended up with more that I would be able to handle in the future. If you cannot get assasin snails, I finally got rid of the problem when I moved tanks. I was able to rinse everything out and let it dry, so of course the snails died and problem was solved.

Now please someone correct me if I am wrong with this advise. If your tank is cycled completely, what you could potentially do is put some of your current tank water in a large bucket with the filter, and empty your tank. Rinse the gravel really with hot water to rid of snail eggs, (you may want to rinse out your filter but take your media out first so the warm tap water doesnt kill your bioload.) and rinse all of your ornaments and the tank itself. This should kill all snail and when you readd water and dechlorinate, your still have your media so your tank will be cycled, and your problem will be solved. The only thing I am think though, is that is a 100% water change almost and I may be thinking way out in left field on this idea. Unless you have a bucket to accomadate 50% of your tank water.....


Please someone correct me if this is bad advice.

I think this isn't the greatest advice. It's a whole lot more work than she needs to do, IMHO. Start by cutting your feeding in half. Get the assassin snails. Do weekly gravel/sand vacs to get rid of extra food. Get some ghost shrimp to help with the extra food between vacs. Relax.

It was definatly some work when I did it, but I had just finished cycling a 40 gallon and the fish were moving anyway lol. I then killed all the snails to convert the ten to a fry tank, so that tank was coming apart regardless. Thank you for the opinion, my guess that would maybe be an option in extremem cases as my tank was heavily polluted with the little critters. Last time I ever put plants in my tank. But as you are giving advice, I do plan on planting my ten gallon as it is now a betta tank. All the plants in it are real and I plan on changing them to real plants. How do I treat the plants for snail prior to adding them as i am sure the plants I had before are how the snail got in my tank to begin with.

 

[This Old Spouse]

The plants I've been buying these days are from Petco, and they come in tubes and are packed in gel. They're healthy, inexpensive and snail-free. Any other plants I rinse off with old tank water before putting in the main tank. In fact, the last batch I got I put in their own quarantine tank for a week. No snails.

 

[Meggie :)]

I have bought the ones in the plastic tubes before, I don't like some of them, there aren't as many options, and half of them aren't even aquatic okay so my lfs actually had assassin snails so I bought 2, (along with a few more plants and another balloon molly ) we will see how this goes thanks for your help!

 

[Fishy friend2]

After hearing about this I relized I had a pond snail in my tank and it is multiplying I might have to go and get an assassin snail for my tank

 

[Meggie :)]

I already love mine and I haven't even had them for 5 minutes. Saddam has already burried himself in my sand...i have no idea where osama went...

 

[This Old Spouse]

I already love mine and I haven't even had them for 5 minutes. Saddam has already burried himself in my sand...i have no idea where osama went...

 

[Meggie :)]

I already love mine and I haven't even had them for 5 minutes. Saddam has already burried himself in my sand...i have no idea where osama went...

whats that for?

 

[This Old Spouse]

Sadam and Osama! The names cracked me up.

 

[Meggie :)]

oh haha thanks my dad's idea