I know I can physically remove them, or trap them, but is there any kind of passive way to remove them? It almost seems like there are enough snails to actually cover the substrate in my tank. This is in my office so unfortunately I cant devote too much time to physical removal but I would like to thin the herd if possible. Are there any fish that eat them? Would also prefer not to get assassin snails because then I'll have a ton of those afterward.
Ways to get MTS out of tank?
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Hello; Having had massive MTS snail populations decades ago I discovered it was my fault. I was overfeeding my fish. Since figuring this out I have a reasonable population of snails which benefits the tanks overall.
The simplest way to approach this is to have fasting days on some schedule. I usually skip feeding two days a week. You can skip more or less. If I feed a bit heavy one day i may skip the next two days.
The notion took hold after I would be gone for three or four day weekends. I would note the tanks looked better when i got back home. Fish being cold blooded can go many days without feed. The exception being fry which need feedings each day.
The simplest way to approach this is to have fasting days on some schedule. I usually skip feeding two days a week. You can skip more or less. If I feed a bit heavy one day i may skip the next two days.
The notion took hold after I would be gone for three or four day weekends. I would note the tanks looked better when i got back home. Fish being cold blooded can go many days without feed. The exception being fry which need feedings each day.
Im doing at least two if not three 50%+ water changes each week since the tank is so small. I feed only one time a day in managed portions and clean up after the fish. are there other causes for why the snails could be so overpopulated?
Hello; I know of nothing that can crunch the hard shells. I use to keep a set of pilers handy to crush snails when my population were too many. Even with pilers the MTS shells are tough. I basically gave up trying on the MTS. I had Ramshorn populations and learned the hard way to not use my fingers to crush snails..
Hello; Not in my experience. They are getting food somewhere. Of course, i have only had snails in tanks since 1959 so i have not seen everything.
Hello; When i have had kuhli loaches I would find lots of empty shells. I figure they can get the meat out leaving the shells behind. Worth a try i guess.
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skjl47
Thank you!
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MultipleTankSyndrome
while we're on the topic of loaches eating snails, any suggestions?
