Help killing off snails

[dmf]

I have a planted tank with shrimp in it. Well I ordered some plants and they came with snail eggs... Now my tank is filled with snails killing my plants. But i have shrimp in the tank. I want to kill the snails but not hurt my shrimp. How do i do this??
It is hard to catch all the shrimp (babies are small)
So any ideas would be grateful.

I might be able to take out most of the shrimp if I have to and put them in a holding tank...

Thank you!! I was scooping them out and feeding them to my larger fish but I got rid of my aggressive fish and now i just have frontosa so nothing to feed the the snails too.


again thank you!!

 

[joe jaskot]

Pick up some assassin snails. They will rid your tank of the other snails.

 

[celebrist]

Pick up some assassin snails. They will rid your tank of the other snails.

will they attack the shrimp?

 

[predatorkeeper87]

I don't believe they'll eat shrimp BUT I can't say with 100% certainty.

 

[Jcb1125]

Try tossing in some veggies, then just scoop them up when the snails congregate, this will get you numbers down a bit. Then throw in some assassin snails. Its not foolproof, I dont know of a way that is, but it cant hurt.

 

[Frank Castle]

normally I would say add a Cichlid since they are voracious snail-eaters, but unfortunately I believe the shrimp would be the appetizer before escargot......

 

[celebrist]

Would botia type loaches kill the shrimp? I know they love snails

 

[FriedFlowerHornFillet]

an indian dwarf puffer would eat the snails first... I've had three that never ate shrimp but I also kept them fat on easier foods

 

[fisheatfish]

I have the same problem. Darn snail eggs from plants I bought...thought I did a good job washing them but apparently not. I've been reaching in and crushing them and the fishes seem to enjoy eating them.

 

[Fat Homer]

The best way to remove snails is to reduce feeding in the tank to control the population...

Since if assassin snails breed then you really will have a problem if that gets out of control...

You can also try adding some blanced veggies into the tank and manually remove any snails attached to said veggie every few hours...