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ImAGMan
04-30-2007, 12:56 PM
Gross Gross Gross, How To Kill Kill Kill?
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kjr928
04-30-2007, 12:57 PM
What is that??? I can't tell from the pics!
whats that in the first picture?
Pallen81
04-30-2007, 1:04 PM
yeah, what is that?
ImAGMan
04-30-2007, 1:10 PM
Snails.
ImAGMan
04-30-2007, 1:10 PM
Hard to take they are tiny, which leads me to believe more are coming :(
I'm guessing it's gross. Ummm, what is it? :confused:
Pallen81
04-30-2007, 1:18 PM
snails aren't gross. :clap: they can be beneficial to a tank as long as numbers don't go bizerk and overun it. hehe.
jessicar613
04-30-2007, 1:18 PM
Just snails??? lol
Leave them, or pick them out! Unless that's too gross for you.... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ramshorns shouldn't get out of control like pond snails, plus they're cute little fellas. I like to watch mine zip around the tank.
J double R
04-30-2007, 1:19 PM
snails aren't gross.. theyre beneficial IMO, cleaning detrius and uneaten food, as well as grazing on any algae.
you can:
remove them by hand at sight
place a blanched piece of lettuce in the bottom for 2 hours with lights out.. come back after 2 hours and it should be covered in snails.. repeat as necessary.
get a loach or puffer and add to your bioload.
use harsh chemicals which will taint your tank permanently and kill ALL inverts living inside, to include shrimp, clams, crabs, crayfish, and the like.
i recommend the lettuce method.
ImAGMan
04-30-2007, 2:00 PM
Heh, yea yea yea, i removed them and put them in my 20 gallon :D Now they can go to work! heh, there 1 big one and two "babies"? Hell if i know i seen them two days ago and almost picked it out thought it was a piece of dead plant haha
ImAGMan
04-30-2007, 2:01 PM
Question: Will my bloodfins kill em? They already speared the big one and knocked him down to the bottom of the tank. The snail is now hiding in moss.
no. kill those ones you find crawling cause they are probably pond snails. they wil form bubble nests and reproduce very, very quickly and will overrun your tank if you do not detsroy them and their nests.
buy a loach, yo-yo would be great. a yo-yo specializes in snail killing.
next, watch your filter very very closely. they will migrate to it and form their nests inside the housing, along the walls where there isnt too much turbulence. i learned this the hard way. they reproduced so quickly when i had a 10 gallon tank running that no matter how many i took using my hand off the leaves and rocks, they would come back stronger than ever. after they literally devoured my plants ( 1 anibia on lava rock, 2 swords) one night, i tore the whole system down. i found they were inside my filter, which was starting to have all sorts of problems in the impeller well. when i removed the impeller, there was a whole pool of snails shells that were grating upon the machine. plus, the nests were all over the inside of the filter, with the culprits nearby. they were even eating the bacteria upon the bio-wheel.
i tried the lettuce method and picking them by hand- they are band-aid solutions, which to me are fruitless wastes of time. they do not remove the root of the problem, they just trim it down. similar to those wretched dandelions that lawn caretakers despise, you have to remove the root and not just the yellow flower so that the thing will not come back. in this case you must remove the root, the nests to terminate the infestation.
so, before they become a bigger problem, buy the loach/es and then start keeping a close eye upon your filter housing. that has been my experience. in fact, right now i am battling pond snails. this time though they have to over come my cleaning of the filter housing every 3-4 weeks, the clown loach, and the ram cichlid i keep. the dwarf cihclid, a male bolivian ram, does eat snails, but not with asuch vigor and as a large an appetite as the loach. between those conditions, they are visrtually non-existent except for the few inside the aquaclear filter in the area between the psonge and the clay cyclinders. they form their nests there.
sorry for the long post, but i do not care for pond snails nor do i have some weird fetish for them as some people do- i see that they have their place in nature, but not in my controlled set-up. good luck
J double R
04-30-2007, 3:33 PM
no. kill those ones you find crawling cause they are probably pond snails. they wil form bubble nests and reproduce very, very quickly and will overrun your tank if you do not detsroy them and their nests.
not if you control their food supply.
and if they were doing anything to the biowheel, they were eating some of the growth which won't affect the population of bacteria.
Oh yeah, snails. I knew that. Hey, snails aren't gross. Not to their mother anyway. Don't you like snails? I like snails. (No, don't mail them to me) OK, scrape them off or get somebody that likes to chow on them. A loach maybe. I'd stay away from chemicals. They kill everything you know. You do want to control them or they will over run your tank.
I have both pond snails and MTS in my tanks, introduced on purpose. I think they're great additions to an aquarium.
aardvark1
04-30-2007, 8:32 PM
use harsh chemicals which will taint your tank permanently and kill ALL inverts living inside, to include shrimp, clams, crabs, crayfish, and the like.
Yep-have a 10 Gallon tank that I used "Had-a-snail" back in my dumber years. Tired raising Red Cherry Shrimp in it-they kept dieing.
Funny thing though; had two Brig snails that hatched 6 egg clutches in the same tank...
My clown loaches do a very good job,befor i got them the snails would cover the glass at night. I have a wet/dry filter and i found a huge amount of small empty shells in the filter wool for about a month and now all is good