Snails are overrunning my tank

stratusfearrr

stratusfearrr

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The title says it all. All the snails that came in on my plants are taking over my tank! How do I get rid of them? Is there a way to get rid of the snails without harmful chemicals?

Please help me.
 
like petluvr said, stop overfeeding and deep gravel vacs. you can also put pieces of lettuce or cucumbers in at night and then yank them in the morning.
 
i also heard somewhere that red-tailed sharks will eat them. so i was thinking that i might get three or four of them, and leave them in my tank for a month. Would that be a bad idea?
 
buying fish to solve a problem is never a good idea
 
I agree.

As far as I know RTS don't feast on snails as would a "botiine" loach.

Either way there should be no reason to buy a fish just to get rid of a problem.

Snails are hard to erradicate completely without causing other problems. But the population can easily be controlled by not overfeeding and manual removal. Try the "bait" method.
 
whats the "bait" method?
 
Either weigh some lettuce down with a rock or decoration,or get a small plastic container,(yogurt container) and cut holes small enough for the snails to get in,and put the lettuce in.Do this after the lights are out.Then check it every hour or so and remove what ever snails are on the lettuce.
This method,picking them out by hand,not overfeeding,and good gravel vacs should help keep their numbers more manageable.
Adding more fish or assassin snails to eat the pest snail is never a good option.
 
FastFly67 said:
like petluvr said, stop overfeeding and deep gravel vacs. you can also put pieces of lettuce or cucumbers in at night and then yank them in the morning.
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This is the "bait" method. The snails will go to eat the food and then you can just pull it out with all the snails attached.
 
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