Snail Infestations and Solutions to Eliminating them: Discussion thread

[rocker92]

Snail Infestations and Solutions to Eliminating them: Discussion thread

Please post all discussion pertaining to THIS (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1829162#post1829162) article in this thread.



great thread lupin!!!!

[bitbot]

Thanks for the article Lupin, good info.

[pik01]

thanks lupin, this is a very common question and it looks to me like you covered all the bases. How do we go about getting this stickied? This question will surely be asked time and again.

edit: oh hey, how about mentioning the inverted bottle top trap in the Baiting Section?

[keithnj]

great article , very useful information, thank you

[colinsk]

Thank you, all the information I was looking for.

[Kashta]

That's a wonderful write-up, Lupin. Thanks for posting such a great resource for us as a handy reference when others ask about this.

[Lupin]

thanks lupin, this is a very common question and it looks to me like you covered all the bases. How do we go about getting this stickied? This question will surely be asked time and again.

edit: oh hey, how about mentioning the inverted bottle top trap in the Baiting Section?
LOL..Ask Rachel or she'll be mad at me for using up another sticky space. The treatment sticky was bad enough not getting much responses which was why I stickied it in the first place to avoid being buried under hundreds of threads.:grinno:

I tried that trap with my loaches and ended up trapping the rams though.:lipssealedsmilie: PM me the details or post it here please, Pik as I haven't tried one for the snails.lol

[pik01]

sure thing lupin.

Take a water bottle, remove the cap, and off with its head right where the bottle begins to taper.
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Trim so that there is a snug fit when you turn the top upside down and shove it into the bottle.
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Stick bait inside like a veggie or a delicious pellet, add some gravel or a plant weight to weigh down the trap, and place it in the tank on its side. Wait overnight and it should become Hotel Snailifornia - snails check in but they don't check out :eek3:

[msjinkzd]

Please post all discussion pertaining to THIS article in this thread.

[Mexican Racoon]

YAY. This article was certainly in demand.

My tank is full of MTS, but I only see them when I gravel vac or hit the lights at night. I say, let em stay in the tank as long as they aren't hurting anything.

[dixienut]

edit: oh hey, how about mentioning the inverted bottle top trap in the Baiting Section?

i tried this one in my cherry tank to get out tons of ponds, the next morning all i caught was my shrimp,...lol snail aint stupid, at least mine arn't:confused:

[addicted2fish]

yea so far my best to rid snails has been cucuber, I put in a pc at night, then when I get up , I grab the whole thing snails & all and toss it . it works good if you put it in a small comtainer too, that way you dont loose the snails that jump off, just use a plant weight and tie to veggie with string, I went and bought rid -a -snail ~~ WHAT A MESS!!!! it killed my loach, 4 fish , and ALL the snails cam e back double !!!!! so that does NOT work . the veggie slice woeks great just have to stay on top of it for a long time to rid alot . zuchini works great too, I cut it kinda thick so they will stay on it till I get back .....hehe ~~~~

[Sounguru]

This entire thread and what it is disscussing is a crime. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Snails are people too and deserve your respect and love not your hate you evil snail haters.....

Signed
PETA

PS. We declare that snails no longer be called snails. We declare they be renamed Water Bunnies and if you don't agree we will stomp our foot really hard and throw a tissy fit.

[dixienut]

Water Bunnies,.
you ain't kiddin, those buggers multiply like energizer bunnies

[Lupin]

I say, let em stay in the tank as long as they aren't hurting anything.
They aren't hurting anything but some idiots find a way to blame the snails anyway.

[mroth_3]

They are hurting me. My cherry shrimp tank was taken over by them. Ever since I started removing them, I've been able to cut my water changes in half. Its amazing how much waste they produce. My back feels a lot better since i do half as many water changes now.

[bettabrat]

What about salt? I was manually removing them and putting them into a salt/water mix. Maybe it's not as nice and simply crushing them but it appeared to work for all those pesky pond snails that snagged a ride on some of my water sprites.

[rocker92]

thanks lupin, this is a very common question and it looks to me like you covered all the bases. How do we go about getting this stickied? This question will surely be asked time and again.

edit: oh hey, how about mentioning the inverted bottle top trap in the Baiting Section?
i tired this and i caught one of my catfish. i think it still holds a grudge aginst me!!!

[cam191919]

helpful

[Kennedy327]

sure thing lupin.

Take a water bottle, remove the cap, and off with its head right where the bottle begins to taper.
80577

Trim so that there is a snug fit when you turn the top upside down and shove it into the bottle.
80578

Stick bait inside like a veggie or a delicious pellet, add some gravel or a plant weight to weigh down the trap, and place it in the tank on its side. Wait overnight and it should become Hotel Snailifornia - snails check in but they don't check out :eek3:

We do this with 2 liter bottles to catch minnows for fishing. works good for that.

[Starálfur]

I just recently had a bunch of snails ride in on some pennywort. I dipped the pennywort in a bleach solution for two minutes too, it wasn't enough. I'm super bummed. I guess they're getting a veggy snack tonight.

Are loaches the only way to completely get rid of them? I don't want to have to be putting veggies in and scooping snails out for the rest of my life... haha.

[jpappy789]

Completely? Probably the easiest way other than chemicals.

But limiting the population by controlling feeding with some manual removal seems to work well for me. I rarely see snails (except the brigs).

[Lupin]

Assassin snails work well but they ignore baby snails completely in my experience or at least the ones that are smaller than half their body size.

[cam191919]

grrr, iv been trying to get rid of the snails in one of my tanks forever now. iv been siphoning them out and putting them in another tank but they keep coming. iv seen MTS, bladder snails, and some kind of ramshorns and its only a 20 long. i think im gunna try baiting, and if it gets too bad assassins

[colinsk]

I now have spent nearly 6 weeks pruning snails with no signs of them abating. I have tried to get them as young as posible hoping to catch them all bofer breeding age and that has not been posible.

It is clear to contain them I will have to bait them and change my feeding habits or prune them everyday for life. I have snails and shrimp I do want so copper is not an option.

[BreellaBlue87]

now, how do I get rid of limpets? they've started to take over my tank! I can't look at it without seeing their little dot bodies on my plexiglass!

[Orcalinkinpark]

Salt is the best way to Kill snails they HATE SALT.. just dip the plant in a bucket of high content saltwater mix that should do it.

I was overrun with applesnails and this got them.

[f|sH gUy]

Arghh snails! The good things about them is that if you have sand or even gravel and food gets stuck inside the snails eat it up and keep it clean and eat algae bad thing is I dont think you cant get rid of ALL of them at all unless restart the whole tank. Snail can reproduce by themselves so I just take some snails out everyday to try to keep the population low I am just worried about my planted tank.

[jpappy789]

not all aquatic snails are hermaphrodites and they most certainly don't just spontaneously generate either.

[Arakkis]

No one put any of the other non-copper poisons in the article??

[vanillaXtiffy]

I know this is old but, very good article. I tell my friends all the time when they ask me how to get rid of snails to just stop feeding their fish so much. If you have a snail explosion, it's because there are enough resources for all of these snails to breed. I got a bunch of plants after my supervisor pruned one of the tanks at work. That tank is snail city, so of course when I put the plants in I had a huge explosion in my snail population. A few weeks of very light feedings and I now barely ever see any snails. The ones I do see are doing me a favor and cleaning up uneaten food, so I'm not complaining! xD