Cleaning tank with baby snails

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lulu

lulu

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I have a snail only tank. They have laid a lot of eggs, and they are hatching periodically now, so there are a lot of teensy tiny baby snails around the tank. I don't want to vacuum the gravel, for fear of scooping up the little ones. Any suggestions on how to keep the tank clean? Thanks in advance.
 
Glabe

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I'd siphon through a net in the bucket
 
Fat Homer

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I use a sponge over my hose to syphon and clean my shrimp tanks...

Its actually designed just for that purpose, a very porous sponge, which is cylindrical shaped, with a hole carved put the center so that you can syphon without worry of sucking up small shrimp / snails...

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It looks pretty much like the black sponge attached to the right side of the filter intake pictured below...



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lulu

lulu

Gangsta Snail
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Ok thanks! Could you put up a link to where I would buy something like that? I don't even know what to call it to google it. I am going to try putting a nylon over the head of the siphon in the meantime.
Thanks again.
 
Fat Homer

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Unfortunately no link, its just something i picked up at the LFS' over here...


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Glabe said:
I'd siphon through a net in the bucket
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I tired siphon through a net, but sorting out the babies from the debris was a mission after a while.
They were so hard to pick up without crushing them.

Once your tank gets over populated with snails, their shells will start to rot away due to the high ammonia.

My suggestions is to just gravel vac away because it's very unlikely you will siphon then all away.
 
Hr0th9ar

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Is there a reason you want to vacuum the substrate? Is there a lot of debris? If so what's causing the debris? I have a lightly planted snail only tank as well and I don't have any issues with debris so I just siphon water from the middle/top of the tank.

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