Never heard of melafix killing anything before... would love to hear if anyone else experienced mass snail die off after dosing melafix at recommened doses...
Coz if thats the case, i may just try it on my shrimp tank...
The war on snails.... help?
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Never heard of melafix killing anything before... would love to hear if anyone else experienced mass snail die off after dosing melafix at recommened doses...
Coz if thats the case, i may just try it on my shrimp tank...
stuff worked wunders on repairing my piranhas fins and made my tank smell funny, but I think it made my snails reproduce more LOL......
The loaches are very tiny babies, and the snails population is huge, many of them very big, the loaches can’t keep up. Should I just let nature take it’s course? I’ve had wonderful luck with loaches before, but like I said, these guys are very small.
Hello; I guess it depends on how quick you want the snails to be gone. Given time the loaches will grow and likely get the population under control.
I have been keeping tanks over 50 years with snails in my tanks. For nearly two decades some of my tanks were overrun. It took me a while to get the food source they use under control. I now use so much less fish food over time than before and have a useful sized population of snails. It may be worth considering such an approach.
If the snails are killed off and the excess food is still being added to a tank then what becomes of the excess food? It decays and rots in the closed system of the tank. Since the bottom line is there is a direct connection between a large snails population and excess food, then it makes sense to do something about the excess food rather than the snails.
some folks just plain and simple don't like snails. I am one of those people. ive been keeping tanks only 35yrs not as much as u mind ya,,,, but I have managed to keep nice clean balanced tanks without the use of snails. its all in balancing tanks. wich includes less feeding sometimes. koipie doll i would remove the loaches if at all possible. do u have another tank to put them in for a month or so???
I have found that dojo loaches eat the pest snails, you could go for some sort of a puffer fish too
homer.... if it kills snails, wont it kill shrimp too??
I take it back. Other people do seem to be using it with snails with no problems. It may be that Chinese Mystery/Livebearer snails ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mystery_snail ) are sensitive to it, or that I did something else at the same time that killed them; I really don't know. I was just talking from what happenned when I used the stuff. I put the stuff in and came back to dead snails , suffering fish and sky high ammonia.
Thats why i was curious, coz i’ve used melafix and primafix in tanks with shrimp and sensitive fish before (at half dose) with no ill effect to the fish...
So with that said, im guessing its okay with shrimp, but never tried it against snails as the tanks i used it on never had snail problems lol...
soooo lucky dude. im proud to announce my piranha tank is snail free for little over 3 weeks now LOL all my others are fine. I didn't even share my gravel vac or nets from that tank to the others so as not to transfer eggs somehow LOL
