Snail invasion, help!

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Slippery K

Slippery K

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Dec 5, 2011
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Hey everyone, I recently added some new live plants to my main tank and assume the snails came from there, I cannot find the mother snail to help decrease the population. Its been over a month since the new plants were added and tonz of baby snails are taking over my tank. I know its not a big deal but its starting to get ugly to see soo many s nails all over the glass. I cant add any small fish to eat the snails as I have a large royal clown knifefish that would probably eat whatever would eathe snails.

Does anyone have any suggeston
 
boil a slice of cucumber or lettuce and leave it on the bottom of the tank overnight. remove and dispose of all snails on the slice the following day. repeat until snails are gone.
 
Loaches would get eatin the second they hit the water with my rck, and trying to avoid adding new snails. Ill probably try the boiled cucumber and lettice trick that wantokeeptrout suggested. So far iv just been sucking out as many as I can every water change.
 
no chance of removing the rck for the time being?
 
Never gonna b gone completely. A lot of fish eat them and I think they clean up uneaten food. I've tried assassian snails, clown loaches weather loaches, now these things even laughed at a double dose of copper sulfate(not recommended) best bet is to see if your fish eat them and try to see past them. Literally.
 
I can't really add any thing but just some irony to me. I to had a massive problem with snails from live plants, the only way I got rid of them short of copper based snail killer was a mistake. I had to tear down the tank. So I setup two 55 gallon tanks moved my fish there and then tore down the tank and the sump. This did fix my snail problem, I wish I knew what I did with it I would send you my snail killer water treatment i bought but never got to use.

Sorry to kinda derail this just reminded me of my problem, any ways you can always use copper based anti snail treatment if you don't have any super sensitive fish.
 
I had the same problem and I added 1 table spoon of non iodized salt foe every 10 gallons of water and left it for a couple days and it seem to kill them off. Just add the salt over a couple days and watch your fish to see how they handle it. I had well over 500 tiny snail and they all died and I just had to clean the empty shells out of my filter.
 
I always use a little aquarium salt for my rck, so it doesnt seem to affect the snails at all. And adding copper meds will do more harm than good as rck's are sensitive to most meds, plus the live plants. I think in time I should get the population down to a more managble level.
 
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