It helps to put the zucchini slice on a small plate - this way you can just remove the plate/bowl.
Anything I can do about these snails...?
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We have three red claw crabs in our fifty five gallon. We get snails eggs on occasion with new plants. The snails never make it a day. The red claws crunch them into nothing as fast as they can hatch. If you have a large snail like my rams horn or an apple snail they're two big to be bothered by the crabs. A crab will use your large snails as an elevator to the top of the tank if given the chance though.
snails cannot survive in acidic waters - if you can slowly lower your pH to about 6.5 (assuming your fish can handel this, I don't know what you have) they should soon die off - then you can slowly raise the pH again
In my experiance you don't need to as they are great climbers and will find a way to the surface even if they climb a filter or a heater wire
As long as they can get out
Some aren't good climbers and you need to assist them every so often.
I was all ready to disprove this, because it just sounded ludicrous, but I can't...except in one case. MTS may survive bouts of acidic water...the die-off which may or may not happen is related to the inability to properly grow and maintain their shells in acidic water (from what I've found) so it seems as though you might need to do this for a longer period of time...that could be stressful to any fish to have the level of acidity changed threefold or more for an extended period of time and then reversed.
I wouldn't recommend fiddling with the pH at first...try the above mentioned possibilities first. Too many snails is also partly a sign that there is 'enough' food for them to live off; increased snail populations represent an imbalance in the tank, so you also might want to try slightly decreasing what you feed the other tankmates. Excess flakes etc. will be munched on by the snails.
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