Snail Problem - Please Help

FishyTT

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Aug 28, 2005
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We have a lot of snails that come with the plants. We've tried to trap them using letuce leaf but very few of them (at most 2 or 3) attached to the leaf overnight. We even have 5 clown loaches, but somehow our loaches do not eat these snails.

Are there other ways to get rid of the snails?

Thanks.
 
why do you want to get rid of your snails so much? i used to want to get rid of them too, but now i let them be because many of my friends want some of my snails. here is the way i got rid of mine, not fully, but it keeps them in low numbers. you must wash your plants when you get them from the store, then when you clean your tank look out for clear patches of eggs and scrape them off, also when you shuffle your gravel you will get many of them out. also snails don't do well if temperature is high(please, note that too high of temperature also can kill plants and fish, so you must take them out for few days, while your tempertature is at 92F or so.) i had that high of a temperature for my sick discus, all snails died from that, but not their eggs. now i find snails just a part of a healthy tank. many people that i know can't keep those guys alive if their life depended on it.
 
I have heard weather loaches really like to eat snails. Mine hasnt, but I only have one huge snail(which I think may have died yesterday, I am going to check him when I get home if he still hasnt moved.)
 
Some folks have said they need to "train" their tank-raised loaches to eat snails, and have done so by taking a few snails, breaking them open, and dropping the snail back into the tank. Once the loaches realize there's something "tasty" inside those shells, they'll start eating the snails. I've also heard some loaches aren't such great snail-munchers--not sure if clown loaches are in that category, though.
 
My weather loaches killed of all my snaills I used to have great quantities of them before they got disgusting
 
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