Help! snail outbreak!

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Wildiana

wildiana
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i like snail, however there is a outbreak of them in my 29 planted tank. they are dozens maybe hundred but i don't want them.


i'm trying to breed my rams (as many of you know i have little success) and this little guys may pos harm to the rams eggs. righ?

anyway, i'll try the piece of lettuce that i once read, but i also want to get some kind of loach?

what kind?

puffers wont do good in a fw tank, correct? they are brackish, right?

what type/kind of loach should i get?



29g
planted
co2 diy
2 blue rams
3 honey gouramies
1 SAE
1 cory catfish
1 Bamooshrimp
about 7-10 algae eating shrimps
 
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Clean the tank more often. Snail populations only explose when there is a lot of organic waste around to feed them.

However--snails won't hurt the rams, or their eggs. Poor water conditions (from so much organic waste present) may.

Puffers are not all brackish, but are all nippy, and would likely go after the rams.

Loaches will go after the ram eggs (as will the cory). Adding a fish to handle the result of poor maintenance is a bad idea.
 
OrionGirl said:
Clean the tank more often. Snail populations only explose when there is a lot of organic waste around to feed them.

However--snails won't hurt the rams, or their eggs. Poor water conditions (from so much organic waste present) may.

Puffers are not all brackish, but are all nippy, and would likely go after the rams.

Loaches will go after the ram eggs (as will the cory). Adding a fish to handle the result of poor maintenance is a bad idea.
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"poor maintenance"?

i do a 40% W/C 2x week, one of which i do a gravel vac. and media clean.

i got some ricca not to long ago that was loaded with snails, i was feeding 2x a day, i cut down to 1x a day.

so am i guilty of "poor maintenance" i think not, am i guilty of feeding more than once a day, when there was snails in my tank? yes.

thanks
 
Over-feeding without compensatory filtration and upkeep is in effect poor tank operation. If you don't recognize the issue, that is your choice, but snails do not grow and reproduce on air, they do require food. The extra nutrients/low level pollution will not help your efforts to breed the rams either.
 
Have they gotten further out of hand since you changed to feeding once a day? Or have they sort of leveled off?

If they stayed about the same after changing your feeding schedule I would just use the lettuce trick to get their numbers down slightly and see if it becomes a problem. Snail overpopulation is always a product of something else that's not quite right. I don't think anyone's accusing you of anything. It certainly looks like youre cleaning schedule is above what most do. It could also be a result of the tank being overcrowded. It might be an issue not of feeding twice a day, but the size of the portions. But if the snails are getting out of hand something is indeed not quite right.

Curtis
 
Are you perhaps target feeding your shrimp too heavily? I've noticed that when I put sinking pellets in for my amanos they would absolutely shred the pellets. They would raise a little cloud of food every time and only eat a tiny amount.
 
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