Help with snail problem please.....
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Hello; Can you describe the snails? A common cause of a bad snail outbreak is overfeeding the fish. You can try reducing the amount of food introduced into the tank. When I get an excess numbers of snails, I crush some each day with some stainless steel hemostats and feed them to my fish. The fish take them eagerly and get a live food treat from a known source.
Some have posted that they put some sort of vegetable in the tank at night and the snails gather on it and can be removed that way. If the snail outbreak is of the trumpet snails, you will likely need to get them as soon as the lights come on in the morning.
I like having snails in a tank. In my experience they provide many benefits.
Some have posted that they put some sort of vegetable in the tank at night and the snails gather on it and can be removed that way. If the snail outbreak is of the trumpet snails, you will likely need to get them as soon as the lights come on in the morning.
I like having snails in a tank. In my experience they provide many benefits.
They are indeed helpful. Especially if they are the right kind in the right kind of tank.
Simplest method is to either tram them like was mentioned above. The other method that is just as easy is get something that eats them. Some loaches, puffers, even crabs (crabs only eat the baby snails) just make sure they will get along with the tank mates.
Simplest method is to either tram them like was mentioned above. The other method that is just as easy is get something that eats them. Some loaches, puffers, even crabs (crabs only eat the baby snails) just make sure they will get along with the tank mates.
Thanks guys, they are a very small round snail I have an rtc, tsn & giant snakehead all over 2ft so the loach & puffer are out of the question. As long as there not bad I don't care to much about there presence. I can tell there breeding because I have a range of bigger and smaller ones. Just want to control them so I don't end up with thousands in there...
Hello; Do a search for pond snails and another for ramshorn. They are slightly different in appearence. The pond snails are considered, by many, to be less desireable. I have kept the red ramshorns in tanks for a long time with few issues. I do find that when they get larger, around nickle size, that they do eat small sections from my amazon sword plants from time to time. Not often though.
well you definitely put something in the tank with a snail. It may have been so small you may not have even noticed him. Then they multiply. My fish and plecos love them.
You can build/buy traps for snails. If you can't put any creature in there to control them. Honestly I would leave them be, they are a free clean up crew. Personal I think they are funny to watch, because nothing really bothers them much.
Might be able to find some one in your area that needs snails for food for a puffer or some other creature. If you decide you need to start trapping them.
Might be able to find some one in your area that needs snails for food for a puffer or some other creature. If you decide you need to start trapping them.