tiny multiplying snails need to go !!!!

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the last resort for me would be chemicals, as einstein said - every action has an equal and opposite reaction... then again, he married his cousin....

anyway, my solution would be clown loaches - wonderful fish, and can confirm - they love snails!
my 4ft tank also has khuli loaches in (live in the gravel).. two of them once ended up in the external filter (do not know how!) and when i cleaned it, there was not one snail - lots of shells, but not rubbery bit!

also agree, snails are great for controling rotting plants and algae, cleaning substrate etc, but excesive amounts can leave you with a pebble-dashed tank, which isnt great..
 
ive been trying to get a steady population of them in 55g because they keep my smaller 10 and 20g so clean, i've probably dropped around 15 in my 55g, but they dont seem to live in there. anyway to increase your snail numbers? haha
 
Manny Stiles;2049878; said:
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. Once the water evaporates, the snails should die within two weeks. If your tank is acryllic, you'll need to add a fair dosage of anger to your hammer work. If you're out of C4, a drill with a strong bit might do it...

There is another way, however...

How much money are you willing to spend on the black market for some Cesium-234? If you wanna go the cheap route instead, about 10 pounds of lye per each gallon in your tank might work. Borrow or steal a half-ton pickup truck and you can probably get all the lye you'll need in two and a half trips...

Or.... You could put something in the tank that does something like... say... eats the snails!!! But if you're going to do that, you might want to skip the hammer approach (maintain the proper anger, of course) and perhaps save the C4 for a "harmless" prank at school or work...


Let's see... a snail, like any other living, non-imaginary creature also needs a little something called "food" to live. If you cut off their food, they will have a hard time making to the fridge and back with enough supplies for the whole tank population.


Then again, perhaps these pointy little bastards are doing something other than teaching you about biology, wising you up to the theories of contamination, embolding me to tell you to attempt to do a little research and you can find an endless supply of answers without having to ask and frustrating you with their ***gasp*** unsightly, horrid appearance!!!

Perhaps the slimy, icky, stupid snails are cleaning the hell out of your substrate for the small cost of merely over-populating their sunjected, contained environment - which obviously lacks a predator and has a healthy supply of food.

A 240? Get yourself a quarrantine tank...
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hey buddy...... how about no jokes about bombs in school.
 
the only two ways i can think of is puffer and that chemical that drives them out of the water and makes them dry up, theyre the easiest
 
salt will kill snails, some are just more tolerant then others. You have to look at where they come from in the wild to determine this. The reason is dehydrates them is because of their immense water weight. Salted water will still draw water out of the snails.

As for the guy ranting and raving about someone not liking snails, chill. Some people don't like them in their tank. I think they're a dandy addition. You ever sampled water from many lakes that our fish come from? They're full of them, as they are a part of a natural ecosystem.


That doesn't mean someone who doesn't want them sucks at life.
 
I'm actually hoping for a little advice with this. In my Wolf tank i appear to have 3 species of snails. 1 species i introduced on purpose; the MTS. A second does not appear to be multiplying and is actually quite attractive with a brown spiral shell. the 3rd is playing havok. The latter 2 species came in on some plants and at first there wasn't an issue. The Spiral shelled snail seems to be a sole algae grazer which is fine by me but the smaller, more invasing snails seem to enjoy nothing better than killing my broadleaf plants.

While i can see the simplicity of adding snail grazers, i find myself with 1 10" problem. My wolf will eat any fish you add to his tank. So heres the question; i don't want to kill the useful species but i really want rid of the out of control plant wreakers. Putting cucumber in the tank probably won't do much good as the snails have plenty of food in the form of my nice broadleaf plants and the ones it would attract would be the ones i want to keep. the other option i thought of was Assasin snails but again, i would worry about them killing of the good species. Chemicals are a big no no so other than picking them off the glass and plants, at great risk to my own fingers, does anyone have any other suggestions? If i introduced a couple of assasin snails, would they feed on the substrate based snails or the plant based species or both? Likewise, would they spawn at a rate that would have them as the only snail species in the tank before long or from peoples expereince would they find a balance?

If anyone needs pictures on the annoying species i am more than happy to supply pictures. The shell appears translucent and slightly chonical, but at the same time, much shorter than an MTS shell.

Cheers.
 
I introduced clown loaches in my planted tank with lots of snails and within a week all the snails were history.
 
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