what is the quickest way to get rid of myriads of aquarium snails?

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Khuli loach and most fish will eat very young snails and snail eggs. That said, their mouths don't normally allow them to be voracious snail eaters and they'll leave larger snails. Some other loaches will actually suck larger snails out of their shells.

 

[itiwhetu]

My experience is that the loaches only eat the eggs so with time the snail population dies out. I have never seen a fish eat a snail. Unless you drop one in front of an Oscars nose but that is something different.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

My experience is that the loaches only eat the eggs so with time the snail population dies out. I have never seen a fish eat a snail. Unless you drop one in front of an Oscars nose but that is something different.

Long ago, when I acquired a group of Rams, they immediately went around the tank eating all of the tiny snails stuck on the glass. This was a most pleasant surprise.
Over the following days, my snail population definitely decreased and these guys didn't have the snouts to suck snails from their shells.

 

[itiwhetu]

Just thought of something. The french have Escargot. We have have Oscargot

 

[ICEEGRL]

I had botia striata
They were awesome fish and ate lots of snails.

 

[Boundava]

Never, but never, acquire a fish or another snail to deal with this issue. Other fish have their own needs to be healthy, and may have more problems associated with them than benefits if they do eat snails. If the tank is suited to such fish, fine, but most of us with this issue do not have this. Similarly, never use chemicals (no one has suggested this in this thread, but it has been advised in others). These are always detrimental to fish, and perhaps beyond.

Colin's method is the only safe one. You must ensure the snails do not somehow get into the local ecosystem, as by being inadvertently flushed down the toilet (thinking they are dead when they are not, hence the crushing). Assassin snails are not the answer; there are now areas in the USA where these somehow got into the environment and have decimated the natural snail populations.

I have solved snail issues with assassin snails without an issue. I think if you are smart you can use them for what they do best. They will also clean up leftover food when food sources (i.e. live snails) become rare. Even with the lettuce, you will only catch hatched snails, you will have to be diligent and repeat for at least 2-3 weeks to try and remove any future populations, it only takes two to tango-sometimes not even two depending on the species.