Plant dips?

[NickAu]

I do not know the answer to that short of buying tissue culture plants.

Like these

 

[RevTerry]

Ok that's fine but doesn't help me.

 

[seangee]

Put the moss into a bowl and quarantine for a few days.

 

[RevTerry]

I would but it's on wood about 8 inch

 

[Chief Brody]

Look dipping is easy just remember to rinse and rinse and rinse with tank water which I find labor intensive for little to no benefit. Use declorinator. The last thing you want in any tank is chemicals. I go above and beyond to maintain the purest water possible so it's counterintuitive for me to bleach-dip plants but if you prefer working in that environment it's your call. I personally have lost fish doing this so am traumatized by the whole process and vowed never again. Botia loaches will take care of your snails if you just don't want snails. There's a bunch of smaller species available now and they make good community fish

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[Colin_T]

ok, copper sulphate then rinse and put the plant and wood in a bucket of water, change the water every hour for 3 or 4 hours and then put it in the tank. Any copper that might be absorbed by the plants will leach out of them when the plant is put in clean water.

If you don't want to use copper sulphate or bleach, use salt. Make up a bucket of salt water. Add enough salt so it no longer dissolves. Put the plant in the saline solution for a couple of minutes then rinse off. If you are terrified of salt, and a lot of people on here seem to be, put the plant in a bucket of fresh water and let any salt leach out of it. Then add it to the tank.

And for anyone who jumps up and down about salt, ALL SHRIMP evolved from marine species so they can ALL tolerate a tiny bit of salt that might be on the plants.

And copper pipes are in 99% of houses in Europe, America & Australia. So chances are, unless you run the tap for a couple of minutes before collecting water for water changes, you will be adding copper to your tank. The copper leaches out of the pipes into the mains water when it is sitting there over night or during the day.

 

[RevTerry]

Ok salt sounds good. I was touchy on bleach and copper sulphate. Just let them soak after salt dip, timing on that won't really matter right?

 

[Colin_T]

put the plant in the saline solution for 2-3 minutes. Then rinse it and put it in fresh water for 5-10 minutes. Then pop it in the tank.

 

[Byron]

Thank you. I'm open to any ideas except keeping snails I've had them take over too many tanks. Plus I bought shrimp to cleanup instead of snails.

The small snails will be at a number according to the available food. They cannot over-populate the tank if food is not available, and if food is available then absolutely nothing will compare to these snails for a healthy biological system. If you have too many, you have too much food (organics) in the tank, which means too many fish, overfeeding, too large fish, or insufficient maintenance. So too many snails means you have a problem.

Anything strong enough to kill snails on plants will harm the plants. That is according to botanists.

 

[An76]

Im getting java moss and want to dip it for snails what are some good options?

I had problems with shasna a

 

[An76]

put the plant in the saline solution for 2-3 minutes. Then rinse it and put it in fresh water for 5-10 minutes. Then pop it in the tank.

I soaked some plants that were covered in snail eggs in normal house hold bleach after 5 minutes then soaked them in fresh water we double dose of tap safe dechlorinator and plants were completely clear of eggs

 

[An76]

Just so you have both sides of the story...I would not recommend any "treatment" for snails. Java Moss is a delicate plant that likely will react to any substance like excessive copper or bleach. Most will tell you never to use copper-based medications in a planted aquarium for good reason. Additionally, most snails lay eggs, and these would not be killed unless the copper/bleach was so powerful that it would seriously damage the plant if not kill it as well.

Snails are not a problem, though I understand many have a dislike to them for some reason. But the sort of snails that are likely to arrive with plants are the small species that are very beneficial in your aquarium, your "best friend" in fact, and worth having.

The problem with them is they multiply so quickly and end up destroying a tank

 

[Byron]

The problem with them is they multiply so quickly and end up destroying a tank

Snails cannot destroy a tank, or at any rate, you should not allow the system to degenerate to the extent that the snails could. I don't understand the problem with snails, as we have mentioned earlier, they are a sign of a healthier biological system and provide benefits you as the aquarist cannot begin to replicate.

 

[NickAu]

The problem with them is they multiply so quickly

And whos fault is that? The snails or the person who overfeeds their fish and isnt maintaining the tank?

All my tanks have MTS, I have found that if I see lots of MTS on the glass during the day its time for a water change, and I never vacuum the substrate and I do not use any fertilizer other than fish and snail poo.

If the snail population in your tank is exploding its because there is Lot's of food for them to eat.

Stock in tank
10 Bumblebee Gobys
well over 100 Red cherry shrimp. Baby shrimp make great live food for the Gobys
1 Mystery snail
Unknown number of Malaysian Trumpet snails. I put 10 MTS in the tank when I set it up over a year ago.
5 for now Ranshorn snails
4 Endlers 1 m and 3 f, the fry make great live food for the Gobys.

Now please tell me how my tank is destroyed.

 

[stanleo]

My mother in law lived with us for a year while she was dying of cancer. My husband and I have full time jobs and I had to care for her. During this time the maintenance on my 55 gl suffered. I would wait till the water evaporated to the point that I could hear the filter returns splashing the water till I did water changes. I never tested anything. I would just throw food in on my way to work with no real schedule to it. Sometimes I forgot all together for a week to feed them. Sometimes I would forget if I had fed them and feed them again. I felt awful about it but honestly, she came first. During this time the snail population exploded to the point that when I fed them or did actually do a water change the snails would nearly black out the glass. They didn’t destroy my tank. If anything the snails were the only thing that kept my fish alive cause they ate the left over food, cleaned the algae that would have really destroyed the tank and who knows what else. Snails are good.