Snails

[giddykipper]

every day i am snail culling!
is ther a way of controlling these blighters!
a few i dont mind but this is ridiculous,they are like rabbits of the aquatic world!!!

 

[bangerman1976]

i dont know how to control them but i found the best way to remove them is by dropping some cucumber in your tank its like a magnet to them then simply remove it along with the snails attached your fish will probably enjoy a nibble of it to so saves your plants two jobs done in one hope this helps

 

[CKutz]

you might be over feeding your fish. the snails won't reproduce if they don't have enough food to sustain themselves, and they mostly get food from left over food that gets into the rocks. there's other reasons also, but this is a pretty common one.

also you could research loaches, chain loaches, botia almorhae, botia stratia, botia kubotai. they are all very nice, and will wipe out your snails pretty quickly. the thing is they like to be in groups so 5-6 is pretty much required, and most get to a few inches. so often it's not really an option to get loaches. but if you got the space, go for it, they are great fish.

 

[Hiya70310]

Yep, I read loaches will eat them up yum yum yum...I wonder do clown loaches do the same???

 

[drobbyb]

Yep, I read loaches will eat them up yum yum yum...I wonder do clown loaches do the same???

Yup.

 

[greenscooby]

Pick up a few assassin snails, they'll do the trick, they look good as well, don't bother your plants and can be quite enternaining.

 

[Hiya70310]

Pick up a few assassin snails, they'll do the trick, they look good as well, don't bother your plants and can be quite enternaining.

Assassin snails...What are those??? They have snails that eat other snails or is that some kind of thing that just kills them. Hope not who wants to scoop dead snails all day.

 

[Inchworm]

If you let snails get out of hand, you could get a tank that looks like this one that I'm in the process of emptying out right now. This is a 55 gallon that I just finished raising a bunch of Bristlenose Plecos in. Because they needed a steady supply of food, the snails reproduced like mad. I will be boiling the gravel and scrubbing the glass. The filter is running in a bucket with Had-A-Snail in the water. If I'm real lucky, none will survive, but I won't be surprised if somehow they do.

 

[Hiya70310]

don't feel bad. my mom has an infestation in her 10 gal. they came in when we brought some goat snails from petsmart. We were excited when we saw the first ones we were like "Hooray, baby snails" But they never got bigger and then there was more and more and more. She still has them in there. I have to tell her about the cucumber trick. right now she just picks them off and flush them down the toliet