I have never had a serious problem with snails in my tanks. Except when I neglect water changes...Populations explode at that point!
OMG SNAILS!! WHY!!?
- Thread starter Ikhan Bettah
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or u can buy that one fish whats it name,, hummm forget things, oh yeah clown loaches, i think those fish eat them, or was it something else? hummm? but clown loaches cost a bit for its size lol, and they do good in groups of loaches.
If they are MTS they are harmless. They will not eat plants. They eat dead plant and animal matter, detritus and scavange the gravel. They will burrow by day and come out at night. They are a live bearing snail so controll threw egg eating shrimp is not an option. There are a few crayfish and Macrobrachium shrimp that will eat the adults. The clown loach is a good one but will almost eliminate the entire colony. Crayfish or shrimp would be more of a controll solution rather than elimination.
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If you put a slice of zucchini in the tank overnight the snails will be covering it in the morning. You can remove the zucchini with the snails and sell them. The Blue Neocardina shrimp will eat all the snail eggs up. This is helpful for those anoying little pond type snails and Ramshorn controll. The MTS are livebearers so they will not aid in there control.
I work at petsmart and we have thousands of these snails. They multipy asexually and can eggs will hatch into new snails within 24 hrs of being laid. Squishing them is the WORST thing to do. If the snail is larger it will release thousands of more eggs when squished and the problem will get worse. Puffers and Clown Loaches definitely the way to go if you want them to be controlled. I have also heard of people using Ich remedies because it is harmful to invertibrates.
