snail zap/had-a-snail

actually, i wouldnt use any chemicals.. chemicals are man made products ( as you already know ) think of the wild.. if any fish are sick, they go to the shallow end where more heat comes in. but yeah, i dont use any chemicals, do what others said. bait the snails. also snails are good for sand ( snails sift through the sand so you get no air bubbles which CAN kill your fish )
 
livebearerfreak said:
also snails are good for sand ( snails sift through the sand so you get no air bubbles which CAN kill your fish )
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the only snails that are really beneficial for sand substrate are malaysian trumpet snails (the long conical shaped snails). other 'pest' snails don't burrow in the substrate quite the same.

as for air bubbles in sand, it's not air, but gas. and if those gas bubbles are released from the sand, they usually just bloop to the water surface and off gas without hurting anything. keeping your sand less than 2 inches deep and keeping it regularly stirred/sifted with your fingers or a stick type tool will keep those gas bubbles from forming.
 
dereks said:
I want something that will get rid of them forever, so I dont have to mess with them anymore.

And sick of messing with sick clown loaches.
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If it were any easy then we would never have to deal with "pest" snails in the first place.
 
assassin snails are a type of snail that eat other snails. i didn't intentionally put one in my tank for snail control, it came in on some plants from a fish friend, and i decided to keep the cute lil bugger.
 
Adding stock to control a maintenance problem is never advisable, what will happen is the assassins will breed and then you will be over ran with assassins and trying to figure out how to feed them. Reduce your feedings, manually remove what you can, and up your vacing and you will se a decrease in their numbers.
 
dereks said:
I guess I always thought they ate the plants.
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Healthy plants shouldn't be targeted but in a way they can be helpful by getting rid of some of the dying and decaying plant matter.
 
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