....snails.... HELP!!

let me just say....:nilly:.
so some plants i got a while back had a few snail eggs on them i guess. not a huge deal. but me, being an idiot, thought "hey, they'll help with the algae blooms on the glass!" so i patiently waited for them to get a little bigger, and realized it wasn't helping at all! someone on a different thread likened it to "mowing your yard blindfolded". so today i look and these 6 or 8 little dime sixed snails have left 4 or 5 little gel-like egg clusters on my glass! and these are just the ones i can see!:rant2: they have GOT to go. my wife hates them and i'm not a huge fan either. the catch is, they're in my shrimp tank! so how do i get rid of them?? i read a thread earlier about a similar subject and they gave a few options, but it seems like they would all catch my shrimp as well as they would catch my snails. any advice? anyone want some random snails?? haha..

dang. that's what i was afraid of! those things reproduce insanely fast!! i hear that limiting their food supply will also cause them to reproduce slower, so i'm looking into ways to control the algae that i have blooming.. any truth to the rumor??

its actually a shrimp only tank that's in its beginning throws, so as far as food goes, i feed the shrimp every other day, and the snails never have a chance to get to any of it. if anything i may be slightly underfeeding the little guys (5 berried currently, so i must not be doing anything TOO wrong i suppose) but the snails spend essentially all their time on the glass, which is pretty green still. could that be enough to cause the population boom?

i can afford a cucumber to get rid of these guys.. good idea! the shrimp will probably bail off of it as i lift it out of the water yeah?

i'm sold. assassin snails it is! check out my WTB thread!! haha..