Too many snails

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cschilly

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I have a problem... my tank is overrun with Malaysian trumpet snails. I bought maybe 40 of them last year I'd say I now have anywhere from 5000 - 5 million. lol.

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Does anyone have any suggestions on culling the herd? I don't want to totally rid the tank of them. They seem to do a good job of keeping my sand bed aerated. I just would like to be able to see the sand that's under all those stinkin' MTS.....
 
make more friends and send them gifts XD

i read from previous post, more food = more MTS
 
Yes cut down on the feeding, assassin snails will help but think well well only keep them in check and it would be a long time before they eat that many. Maybe just pick and dump but i would never do it :)

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Yeah I'd like to try the loaches. In fact I picked one up today to see how it would do in the tank but I don't think it made it. I have really high pH in the tank, around 8.5. I acclimated it as slow as I could but it didn't look like it was doing too good and I can't find it now. (Tank is 130 gallon w/ 13 juvenile frontosa)
 
It all depends on the tank size. Clown loaches are own of the common reccomended snail eaters, but really aren't suitable for anything except for a big tank (they get 12")

I would reccomend cutting back on feedings and adding some assasain snails. I would buy 5-10 ish, and let them do their job. You won't lose many at first, but as their population builds the pest snails will decrease in number. Eventually (1-2 year maybe) your assassains may eat all the pests.
 
cschilly said:
Yeah I'd like to try the loaches. In fact I picked one up today to see how it would do in the tank but I don't think it made it. I have really high pH in the tank, around 8.5. I acclimated it as slow as I could but it didn't look like it was doing too good and I can't find it now. (Tank is 130 gallon w/ 13 juvenile frontosa)
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sorry, I missed this part! What species of loach is it? I personally keep my weather loach in a low PH, I don't have much experience in a higher one with loaches. Keep in mind that loaches are scaleless, and can be killed easier by medication (even if they aren't sick). Many also prefer a low tank temp.
 
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