how in gods name do these things breed so fast!?!?!?!?!! i started with 2 that were unwanted hitchhikers now i can look at m 35 and see at least 50!! and theres piles of clutches to! any snails that like to eat other snails?
pond snails
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Just use your magfloat to squish the eggs on the glass. I put a babyfood jar in the tank with some thawed green beans. The snails will go in there and you can scoop them out and get rid of them. I have a couple of ponds that I put them in so I don't feel guilty. My briggs go in too and it is pretty funny to watch. Oh, and cut down on feeding. They breed faster if there is an abundance of food.
i would increase your maintenance and decrease your feedings. Make sure your plants are healthy. I only get an abundance when there is too much of a food source for them. Assassin snails do eat other snails, but I would recommend trying to figure out why they are reproducing so readily first.
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I have a knack for looking at my plants so thoroughly for eggs that I do not have many pond snails.lol Just don't want a bioload increase in my apple snail tanks.:grinyes:
wait, by pond snails we dont mean ramshorns? sorry, im a bit of a newbie when it comes to pond snails. i have ONE pond snail only, and about a million ramshorns.
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Pond snails-generic term as it is applicable to several species. The ones we often have can be donkey snail, pouch snail (Physas sp.), etc.
Ramshorns-spiral shelled planorbids.
id send u them pond cometer but i doubt theyd make it the border sorry. and to bad they dont have assasins at my lfs. ill just cut down on feeding and put a bottle with a small mouth(stop my brigg from going in) and put sme veggies in it