julielynn47
Fishaholic
I really need some advice on assassin snails. When I set up my tank, many many years ago, I bought plants to put in the tank. I didn't even have fish yet when I saw a speck on the glass. Turned out to be a ramshorn snail....and the rest, as they say, is history. My tank is overrun with ramshorn snails. There have been times when it was hard to see the sand substrate due to snails.
I have given them away to whoever wants some, I have picked out snails for years to the tune of thousands...yes, thousands, no joke. I even started a snail tank last winter and would pick them out and put them in that tank. But I do not want to run a tank just for pest snails. Not now nor ever again. I want to be rid of them entirely. They eat plants, and not just dead ones. They have killed, ate to death rather, some amazon swords. Chewed them until the just died. They dirty the substrate and make the tank stink. I don't know what to do with them. Again today I pulled my huge amazon sword out of the substrate to pick snails off the bottom of the healthy leaves and out of the root system of the plant. This is a huge plant and they almost killed once. They eat the leaves and the roots. This picking them out is an everyday thing that has been going on for years.
Needless to say I am so tired of it. I have literally tried everything I know to try...except assassin snails. I am wondering, do they really work? Will they eat plants too? Will they hurt my fish? Any help and knowledge will be appreciated
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I have given them away to whoever wants some, I have picked out snails for years to the tune of thousands...yes, thousands, no joke. I even started a snail tank last winter and would pick them out and put them in that tank. But I do not want to run a tank just for pest snails. Not now nor ever again. I want to be rid of them entirely. They eat plants, and not just dead ones. They have killed, ate to death rather, some amazon swords. Chewed them until the just died. They dirty the substrate and make the tank stink. I don't know what to do with them. Again today I pulled my huge amazon sword out of the substrate to pick snails off the bottom of the healthy leaves and out of the root system of the plant. This is a huge plant and they almost killed once. They eat the leaves and the roots. This picking them out is an everyday thing that has been going on for years.
Needless to say I am so tired of it. I have literally tried everything I know to try...except assassin snails. I am wondering, do they really work? Will they eat plants too? Will they hurt my fish? Any help and knowledge will be appreciated