i got home today and found my water had stopped running back to my tank from the ehiem 2080 filter , on inspection i found that a snail had got into the strainer while small , grew to a good size then layed half a million little snails in the pipe , they then grew to a size that blocked the pipe ,i dissmantled the pipe work and cleaned it all out but i want to make sure i have no survivors , and that will be the last time i put a bit of pre soaked bog wood plant into my tank ,,
how to kill them snails ????
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Well, a little trick I read over on Pfury was to take a glass jar with a hole in the lid and put cucumber in it. Then you wait a day or so and take the jar out, flush the snail infested cucumber and repeat. Keep doing this for a week and should get most if not all of them.
Soluble copper salts work but it sometimes kills the fish as well. A safer biological alternative is to introduce some botias like the skunk botia to the tank. Botias will make short work of the snails. Although I am not too sure what happens when other fish try to eat the botias. Meaning I do not know how much damage the sharp spines of the botia inflict on the fish eating it.
Lettuce works well. Put a large piece in your tank and weigh it down with a rock. With in a day it will be covered in snails.
all of my tanks have snails but it doenst become a problem unless someone else is overfeeding my fish...
Be careful with what you are suggesting. Skunk loaches are not generally good community fish as these are one of the nastiest loaches you will ever find. I've kept dozens of species and found skunks as one of the nastiest. They can fend for themselves easily and rip through the community tank quite easily.grammodes;3340811; said:
I woud not suggest using fish to do the job for you. Just manually remove them and squish them for your fish to eat. Bait the others with cucumber and lettuce and ditch them off.