tiny multiplying snails need to go !!!!
- Thread starter zanemgray
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I would like about 20 or so NO MOREill send you some haha my 29 has about 500 in it and im also looking for a way to get rid of them
radioaktiv;2055056; said:
Go to your LFS and see if they have them. Mine gives me 50-100 for 2 dollars, however many they can pull outta the tanks at the time.
If your aquarium is glass, take a hammer and some over-applied anger and very carefully smash each glass panel of your aquarium until all the water evaporates from the room the aquarium was in.
rotfl wtf???
i have snails multiplying, but i dont care, ill just put them in my pond lol
rotfl wtf???
i have snails multiplying, but i dont care, ill just put them in my pond lol
Mampam;2056680; said:
I was being a sarcastic a-hole on purpose to prove a point: If you think having snails in your tank is a problem, the problem is more than likely YOU.
If you don't know what you are doing, bad things can happen. Snails in your tank is NOT a problem. If they are crawling out of the tank and trying to murder you in your sleep, maybe. But any infestation in your tank is - how do I put this? - YOUR FAULT!@!!!
It's ok if you don't know what you're doing - we all started out not knowing what we were doing, but an aquarium is an artificial ecosystem with YOU as it's God. It comes with more responsibility than what Mr. Rogers all led us to believe.
Blaming the snails for your incompetence is a clear demonstration that maybe you aren't as ready for a 240 gallon fish tank as you thought. Get the hammer!
As a guy also living in Arizona, MTS and Ramshorns are like the heat - omnipresent. I swear - on the rare occasion it rains, trumpet snails are there. The whole state is interconnected through canals that are loaded with MTS and Rams and every river and every lake has them. Warm, higher ph water year-round, 330+ days of sun per year to bloom algae and no predators - do the math.
I used to hate them too. How dare thay make my tank look "ugly" - the HORROR!!! I would wake up late at night just to yank them out of my tank to a dry death or smash their shells - it brought me some mild pleasure but they multiply exponentially. Homemade cucumber traps, no more live plants from LFS and loaches (plus I think some corys like to eat the eggs and littlest ones) did the trick after a while but then I realized that live snails = CLEANER, prettier tanks and dead snails = uglier tanks.
Feed right and they won't become a problem. Kill them all at once and you'll have a WORSE mess.
Besides, the snails are just doing this guy a favor (besides thriving on the extra food and manipulating his substrate like champs). Next time it will be a REAL pain in the ass like parasites, fungus or ich, et al... THEN what?
At least he had enough sense to ask for help (too bad I got to him first!!!)
headbanger_jib;2050046; said:salt will do the work
No, it really won't.
I had a ten gallon quarantine tank that got the MTS rash and decided to "experiment" with them, some salt and also a few ghost shrimp.
I dumped a heavy dosage of salt in there and stopped feeding completely to see how long and how much they could take. I figured I'd have no snails or shrimp within 24 hours.
WRONG!
So the next day I upped the dosage with some more salt - By "some more salt", I mean an entire carton of aquarium salt - to the tune of about 3/4 cup per gallon!!!
The snails made it about a 8-9 days before there was no more sign of them moving about. It might have had as much to do with the food supply getting cut as having the salt stress.
The ghosties died off at varying times but two actually made it a full two weeks before I decided my curiosity was quenched. Ghosties are tough little guys!
So I did about a 90-95% water and change and in another two to three weeks I had a fresh new snail population. I did not add any new creatures or water from any outside source and my other two tanks at the time were 100% snail-free. I'm no Louis Pasteur but I take pretty good precautions.
My hypothesis was that even though the snails died, the eggs lived on through the salt stress, whether in the water or on the glass above the water... but they returned.
Eventually, I just dumped that tank and started over (that's what quarantine tanks are for!!!)
salt does not work on snails underwater, salt dehydrates snails at an incredible rate when in your lawn, but it kinda hard to dehydrate something thats surrounded by water
