Snails

Clip veggies to the wall of the tank every night and remove them, and the snails, every morning until you feel they're gone.

If you're looking to start from scratch, you could always bleach the tank. BUT you would need to make sure that the filters aren't running at the same time to retain the BB and you would want to go through the substrate, decor, etc. and remove all dead bodies. You don't want all that decomp happening when you set it up again.

Generally I would agree with the veggie method, but since fish aren't involved you can get a little more extreme and still be safe.

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is this on the 180g? is it still for africans?

have any malaysian trumpet snails? If you do, you could sent me a bag of them. I love snails. Usually, if you keep from overfeeding, once they run out of algae, they just die off.....

What type of snails? MTS are amazingly hardy, mystery/apple, ramshorns would be easier to kill off that way.

cbster said:

Yes it is on the 180. I am still undecided on Africans or discus. I am thinking of draining everything and letting it all dry out and starting over. Do you think that would work?

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It depends on what kind of snail and how you will be drying it out. If you just leave the substrate in and drain the tank... even though after awhile the substrate seems dry... you could have snails again. I read a post not long ago about someone emptying a tank, removing the gravel after they though it was dry. Put it in a garbage and stored it. 6 months later, gave it to a friend setting up a tank and within a couple of weeks there were snails.

You could dry baking it in the oven for awhile maybe?

I agree with others...MTS are surprisingly hardy and may still survive even if the substrate seems dried out.