Snail Problem Help!

[rocknurworld2006]

one of my tanks is over run by pest snails i need rid of tem asap!
can someone help on what is the quickest way of getting rid of them there everywhere ???

 

[srem]

Try here

 

[goosej13]

what kind of fish do you have in your tank... if its a community tank the best way would to be some clown loaches... great for cleaning those pests up...

 

[rocknurworld2006]

i have a bout 6 baby bristlenoses and there dad that is all.

 

[kribensis12]

I would try the lettuce technique

 

[Juice]

Lol, take a square net and scrape them all off of the glass (use a gravel vac for the ones in the gravel) the net will catch them then just dispose of them after that.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

To be honest, I suggest letting them run their course. They eat the detritus in the tank and essentially clean it. The reason you've had them get to pest levels is because you had nothing removing the detritus 100% and thus they had enough food to reproduce so prolifically.

There is really no way short of a complete tank tear-down or some kind of fish to remove them. Eventually they'll just run out of steam and reach a level that can be sustained.

 

[loachman]

what kind of fish do you have in your tank... if its a community tank the best way would to be some clown loaches... great for cleaning those pests up...

If you have a 100 gal tank.

 

[goosej13]

another sweet lil fish to get rid of them are dojo loaches... i just got one of these eel type fish... haha... their face looks like a dog lol... and he is bigger then the clown loaches and eats alot more.. my snils were reduced to pretty much nothing in a matter of days