I purchased some fish from a fellow MFK'er. And i've had these damn little snail's all over my glass for week's. Anything that will kill them with out hurting my fish? They don't seem to bother the fish at all. But they bother the hell out of me!! 
How to get rid of Snail's.
- Thread starter BigJ
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Pick them out. You can bait them by putting a piece of lettuce on a rock with a rubberband and just pulling the whole thing out once it gets full o' snails.
Those are MTS (malaysian Trumpet snails). They won't take the lettuce bait.
They climb the glass in the evenings and stir the gravel all day long. Short of bleaching your filters, gravel and everything in the tank, you can't get rid of them.
There are many varieties of loach that love them and will do a fantastic job of keeping the numbers in check. Some loaches are schooling fish and need to be kept in large groups, others are solitary, so do some homework before running out to buy a loach.
They climb the glass in the evenings and stir the gravel all day long. Short of bleaching your filters, gravel and everything in the tank, you can't get rid of them.
There are many varieties of loach that love them and will do a fantastic job of keeping the numbers in check. Some loaches are schooling fish and need to be kept in large groups, others are solitary, so do some homework before running out to buy a loach.
kdrun76;3434419; said:
Is there a pic somewhere that I missed? How do you know they're MTS? I figured they were those little pest snails that stay really small and reproduce like crazy, which is why I suggested the lettuce.
I made the assumption of MTS based on the description he gave. It is perhaps jumping to conclusions. MTS are more likely to be on the glass in large numbers than pond snails, especially in the evenings.
If they are pond snails... the lettuce trick will work fantastically.
If they are pond snails... the lettuce trick will work fantastically.