Alright, so I picked up invasive snails somewhere along the way, and I have tried and tried to get rid of them, and they laugh in my face. I've decided to go ahead and tear down my tank, and put my fish in plastic tubs for a few days, so I can clean the snot out of my tank. Any suggestions of chemicals to use? How long to let it dry out? Or any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to stress out my fish and go through this hassel only for the snails to return. Thanks in advance.
Snail Problem
- Thread starter jayv72
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Since they are most likely aquatic snails all you should need to do is drain the tank. leave it to dry a few days. (maybe use this as a great excuse to give the tank a general clean then fill it back up.
borrow a green spotted puffer fish, they'll wipe em' out in a few days. Depending on whats in your tank...you might be able to keep the puffer...they are little dicks though, they'll just nip and annoy your other fish. Assassin snails work too and don't reproduce like the dickens.
I guess I should have mentioned that it's a 125 gallon tank with an 18" jardini arowana and a 10" tig, so any fish that I buy to take care of the problem will have to be big. It's hard to find big fish that eat snails. I bought a leprdontis (looks like a black and yellow trout with a sucker mouth)? That's suppose to eat them, but he can't keep up.
assassin snails are great. sunnies can be, but usually are not the pricks that puffers are. sunnies will readily eat them. loaches are great too, but as said more expensive. If you let the tank and decor completely dry, the snails will probably be competely dead in a few days. Probably less but I would make sure they are dead dead. Are they gilled or lunged snails, the lunged will survive a bit longer out of water. Typically, you will usually run into gilled snails, but I have discovered lunged in my tanks before
If they are Malaysian, they will be in the filter media (babies), in the substrate and almost anywhere else in the tank. I've let substrate sit in a bucket for 6 months and when I got it back in a new tank they showed up again. They're very hard to get rid of.
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I had a mini outbreak in my tank but I'm not sure which fish is eating the snails, but the population is under control now! assassin snails were recommended to me by lfs when I was worried, it solved itself though,.