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evelyn80
01-22-2009, 4:54 PM
how in gods name do these things breed so fast!?!?!?!?!! i started with 2 that were unwanted hitchhikers now i can look at m 35 and see at least 50!! and theres piles of clutches to! any snails that like to eat other snails?
jackiomy
01-22-2009, 5:15 PM
Just use your magfloat to squish the eggs on the glass. I put a babyfood jar in the tank with some thawed green beans. The snails will go in there and you can scoop them out and get rid of them. I have a couple of ponds that I put them in so I don't feel guilty. My briggs go in too and it is pretty funny to watch. Oh, and cut down on feeding. They breed faster if there is an abundance of food.
stezatois
01-22-2009, 5:27 PM
assasin snails
msjinkzd
01-22-2009, 5:32 PM
i would increase your maintenance and decrease your feedings. Make sure your plants are healthy. I only get an abundance when there is too much of a food source for them. Assassin snails do eat other snails, but I would recommend trying to figure out why they are reproducing so readily first.
I have a knack for looking at my plants so thoroughly for eggs that I do not have many pond snails.lol Just don't want a bioload increase in my apple snail tanks.:grinyes:
NilsBaees
01-23-2009, 1:33 AM
wait, by pond snails we dont mean ramshorns? sorry, im a bit of a newbie when it comes to pond snails. i have ONE pond snail only, and about a million ramshorns.
wait, by pond snails we dont mean ramshorns? sorry, im a bit of a newbie when it comes to pond snails. i have ONE pond snail only, and about a million ramshorns.
Pond snails-generic term as it is applicable to several species. The ones we often have can be donkey snail, pouch snail (Physas sp.), etc.
Ramshorns-spiral shelled planorbids.
NeonFlux
01-23-2009, 2:46 AM
Send in the assassin snail snail-eater troops
PondCometer
01-23-2009, 5:26 AM
If anyone has pond snails they want to get rid of I need some! I'll pay postage
evelyn80
01-23-2009, 6:43 PM
id send u them pond cometer but i doubt theyd make it the border sorry. and to bad they dont have assasins at my lfs. ill just cut down on feeding and put a bottle with a small mouth(stop my brigg from going in) and put sme veggies in it
Sounguru
01-23-2009, 8:02 PM
Since you are out of the US you can get Assassins via aquabid
Fishy_Fun
01-24-2009, 1:55 AM
About 3 months ago i had them in every tank.Now that i feed less i don't have a single pond snail.