I'M DONE!!!!!!

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daayda3

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help!!!!!:help:
it all started a YEAR ago....
i was getting a fish at meijers (i know i know) and they gave me a free snail... big deal
well i got home, put it in my tank.. and little did i know, that snail was pregnant:eek:... so i was stuck with a mamma snail and 4-5 babies
THEN it happened again! the babies had babies and those babies had babies... (this was in my little 2g) so i decided to move one over to my 10g, not knowing IT was pregnant too!:eek: so, the babies had babies and those babies had babies...:mad2:
so i TORE down that 10g (i didnt know anything about the good bacteria)
and washed everything with bleach and i let the snails dry out!
(snails lay eggs, a wad of 10-15 eggs in a slimy pouch)

OK so i got rid of them! right? WRONG
nope there was a couple of snail eggs in my net that got in my 10g while catching a fish
that same story happened ALL over again! i didnt need gravel! just snails!:eek:

so i tore down the tank AGAIN and threw away that evil net and started ALL over again!

so i was snail free for about 6 months untill one day... what did a see?
a baby snail! so i crushed it!:mad2: then there was more! so i had my lil bro get them all out LOL

so i was fine till about a month ago... what did a see?!!?!!?
yup! a baby snail, so i took it out then there were two, three, FOUR... BUT i concord them all! (or so i thought)

yup... right now i have about 20 of those little devils...
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?!??!!?!?!?!?!??!!!?!??!?!?!?!?
now my 10g is empty (except for those snails)

HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM FOR...THE...LAST...TIME?!?!?!!?!?

thank you. LOL;)
 
HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM FOR...THE...LAST...TIME?!?!?!!?!?
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got plants? that's the way most snails make it into your tank. wash the plants in potassium permanganate BEFORE you install them in your tank. got no plants? well then, snails are just your cross to bear i guess. :) i've never had snails.
 
Sounds like a problem I had with some pond snails.

After reading several stories similar to yours, I didn't even bother removing them.

I suspect the only way to properly do it would be tear down the tank. Bleach it, bleach dip all of your plants, nets, etc. Toss your gravel/bake your substrate (where applicable) let the whole mess sit in the sun for a week or two, and go from there.
 
Excessive snail populations are usually caused by overfed and under-maintained tanks (specifically those that do not get gravel vac'd), so if you have an unbearable amount snails, your probably doing one or the other. All my freshwater tanks have both malaysian trumpet an pond snails, and in every one of them, I really have to look hard to see a snail. I actually add them to my new FW tanks for their scavenging abilities. These snails are hermaphrodites, meaning that you only need one snail to get an infinite number of snails.
 
ill get a pic, of them

and no, i dont have plants...;)
 
I wouldnt worry about them,they dont harm your tank at all...they actually help it.
they clean up all missed foods and some eat algae...why do you want to get rid of them??
 
I used to have quite a few snails in my 75 gallon planted tank. Usually at any time I could find at least 20-25 snails crawling on the glass. I didn't mind them but my wife found them unsightly. I recently put some clown loaches in the tank and the snail population quickly dropped. Now I have to really search the plants closely to find any.

As clown loaches can get pretty big, you may not wish to add one to your tank, though. I have heard of some folks sinking a slice of zucchini in the tank overnight. Snails will gravitate to the zucchini to eat and in the morning you can toss the zucchini in the trash along with all of the snails clinging to it.
 
OK.. i cant get a pic. of them because my dad vacumed up the cord that uploads them into the computer..! LOL

and thanks for the tips everyone!;)
 
If theres nothing else in the tank get some commercial snail killer AP makes one called 'HAD-A-SNAIL' any one will work as long as its copper sulphate based. Works FAST in 2 applications 1 to kill the snails and one about a week later to wipe out hatched eggs.
 
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