I Had Too Many Snails

[guppy_man]

after a good cleanup the other day i realised i had literally hundreds of snails, malaysian trumpet snails, i know they dont do no harm but if you could see how many of them i have you would get rid of them to.

i got 1 of those plastic breeder box and floated it just under the surface with some cucumber and waited around half an hour and i could see snaild climbing up the glass to the box, after about an hour there were around 50-70 snails piled up in the little box, so i emptied the box into a coke bottle ( washed out lol ) and then left the box to fill up, by the next morning they were still in the box, so i again emptied.

i didn't throw away any snails, i mashed them up for my dwarf puffers, they seemed to like it anyway


this method works quite well

 

[sophos9]

I had a snail problem, introduced 3 Clown Loaches (which I think are great) and have never had a problem since!!

Within a few days, all I hoovered out were shells, no kidding!!

I guess you cannot have clowns tho??

 

[BiffMalawi]

You might want to be alittle careful with giving the MTS to your DPs as the shells are too hard and may break their teeth. Although I am not sure if crushing the shells first eliminates this problem.