Getting rid of snails
- Thread starter Lspooky4
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Yah sometimes u just wish u could rent a particular fish and return em when ur done!!!Lspooky4 said:
Weather loaches eat baby snails as well and while not as pretty as clowns are cheaper and smaller. Very hardy fish.
i had the same problem w th at least 15 snails that kept multiplying each week. I bought a med. size clown loach and within a week or two all the snails were gone and never came back afterwards he ate frozen brine shrimp that i feed to the other tank mates....
to solve the problem with the clown loach buy a rbp....I bought 2 of them at about 2 to 2.5 inches and my snail, clown loach and other fish problems were solved...lol
to solve the problem with the clown loach buy a rbp....I bought 2 of them at about 2 to 2.5 inches and my snail, clown loach and other fish problems were solved...lol
yes i know how you feel, i had so many snails in my tank and i would try to pick them out but they would always have eggs in there, i kind of like them but ohwell. they easiest way i got rid of them i cleaned out the whole tank with extreamly hot water, this wasnt a problem because there werent any fish in there at the time but then you have to recycle the tank. another way is to put a coffee can lid with some bait and pick the snails out when they are on the lid, this works but there is always some eggs somewhere so they come back in a few weeks,
I have those damn trumpet snails and I've heard that their shells are to hard for loaches and puffers. i actually droped a couple in with my figure 8 puffer and he didn't eat them. What chemical alternative is there when everything else has been tried. and don't say had-a-snail I dumped 3x the suggested dose in there and they didn't even slow down.
Sounds like you need to knock back the population physicallyrunnyour substrate through an appropriately sized sieve to remove and discard most of the snails.dodgefreak8 said:
