Snails would take an awful long time to starve normally... Excel's active ingredient is an industrial cleaner that just so happens to work as a carbon source- it kills algae, which I suspect is what kills your snails by starving them of algae.
Snails
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why take the risk of introducing possible illness to your tank from the lfs? It would be a bit ridiculous to quarantine the loach for four weeks, then put him in your tank, then back to the lfs. And also can't be very pleasant for the loach.
As it is clown loaches get picked up by uneducated keepers and plunked into a 10g and then returned whrn the poor thing grows up, or dies from improper care... Why encourage this revolving door practice?
/rant (sorry, got off topic there...)
I think i found a way to get them. I did a water change last night and must of hit the ph controller or something. when i got home from work today i looked at the tank and all the fish where on the top gasping for air. So i turn the controller up a little and moved the power head to wards the surface. I then noticed a big pile of something on the glass at the top of the water and it was all snails. Looked around and found three piles of them and i crushed them all. So i am thinking about once a week pull the fish out and turn up the co2 and wait for them to come to the top. Anybody ever heard of this?
1. My 2 LFS (not box stores) Quaratine already, so why Quaratine longer? You can not go into my my 2 lfs and buy fish that just came in, they Q them for 6 to 8 days.
2. I didnt suggest she buy it to keep it, I told her to buy it and take it back. WHICH is a practice some do here.
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http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f20/diy-pond-snail-trap-126550.html
I may find myself posting that link a lot :lol:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f20/diy-pond-snail-trap-126550.html
I may find myself posting that link a lot :lol:
All well and good, but we don't all have access to your lfs. So the practice between yourself and this lfs is an isolated occurance, not the standard.
Just because the guy next to you jumps into the fire, does that mean you should, too?
Personally, I don't buy a fish with the specific intention to take it back. I buy fish I want to watch & care for & see thrive in my tanks.
Lets get back on topic. snails. I wouldnt recommend taking your fish out once a week. Way to much stress on the fish. Get yourself a turkey baster and suck em up when you see them. pond snail, only become invasive in an overfeed tank. They kinda self control their population.(this is the general rule of thumb but not always the case) If you are only seeing a few I would just suck em out. If you have hundreds, well then suck out a lot. and watch your feeding
