I have ramshorns in my tanks- they've become a huge problem and my assassins is not keeping the populations in check. The ramshorns are eating holes in my plants, driving me insane. And they're putting a roadblock in the caves/holes that my plecs and catfish can't go into.
I'm about to go into 2 of my tanks to pull them out by hand as they're going into the pipes/caves and that is making a huge impact with my pleco and catfish being able to breed as they're unable to go in there. I put out pumpkins as they tend to flock in big numbers on those within 30 minutes I just pull it out then empty it then put the pumpkin back in. its just a cycle all over again.
my question is is how well do they ship in the cold weather if I find someone that wants them for free? I have been throwing them out putting them in trash and I just feel its a waste of life just to do that. I brought assassins few times and it seems they don't do the job at all as my assassins are just borrowing deep into ground or getting ate by something in my tanks. I do feel that If I get loach in some of my tanks- I won't be able to have a population of shrimp- ever as I do find shrimp very cool to have in the tanks as I will always have some planted tanks running. And the other tank is just too cold to have small loaches in as its the tank that the ramshorns are actually thriving in.
Any ideas? I do not want to resort to chemicals or anything like that and how well do they ship pirority mail in the cold weather if I find someone who wants to use them as feeders?
I'm about to go into 2 of my tanks to pull them out by hand as they're going into the pipes/caves and that is making a huge impact with my pleco and catfish being able to breed as they're unable to go in there. I put out pumpkins as they tend to flock in big numbers on those within 30 minutes I just pull it out then empty it then put the pumpkin back in. its just a cycle all over again.
my question is is how well do they ship in the cold weather if I find someone that wants them for free? I have been throwing them out putting them in trash and I just feel its a waste of life just to do that. I brought assassins few times and it seems they don't do the job at all as my assassins are just borrowing deep into ground or getting ate by something in my tanks. I do feel that If I get loach in some of my tanks- I won't be able to have a population of shrimp- ever as I do find shrimp very cool to have in the tanks as I will always have some planted tanks running. And the other tank is just too cold to have small loaches in as its the tank that the ramshorns are actually thriving in.
Any ideas? I do not want to resort to chemicals or anything like that and how well do they ship pirority mail in the cold weather if I find someone who wants to use them as feeders?