Total Pond/MTS/ramshorn snail removal plan

NeonFlux

NeonFlux

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I'm motivated. Why? Well because I am going to change my substrate to a different substrate anyway, so I thought ah mind as well take out those pond/ramshorn/MTS snails for good and then introduce the new substrate that is snail free (of course) and bleach every new plant, I buy from now on. So my tanks stay pond/mts/ramshorn free.

What's your bleach diluted solution to kill snails on plants anybody?

My plan is to take out all of the fish, net them in to my 10 gallon captivity tanks (cycled).

From here, I want to know what to use(chemicals?Snailcide?Had-A-Snail product?) fully kill all the snails, gel sacks, eggs, and etc in the tank (without the fishes in the tank). Then once I kill all of them, I'm gonna plan take out the plants, take out the substrate, siphon all the water out, clean the insides fully dry and then maybe do a little scratch removal(I have a 60 gallon Acrylic tank, no glass at all), anndddd introduce the new substrate, fish, plants.

...Or I have another plan, it's a rather risky plan, it's to bleach the plants and driftwood.....which I don't recommend myself.

What's the best method?

msjinkzd? You have any thoughts on this?

Thanks!!!


-William
 
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I would love to, but they are still very very small, I have a ton of babies....
 
Well, you can use those snail killing agents, but if you do, you may never put another Invertebrate into that tank. All those snail killing agents have copper in it, which kills all inverts so unless you want inverts in that tank, dont do it.

You can try making a trap or just taking out all the gravel while the snail are inside..

Or maybe get some assassin snails to kill off all your snails. :D
 
dont understand why you would not want any snails?? they are great clean up crews. It would be so much better to collect as many as you can , send them to someone who would like to have them and empty the tank , clean it well , dry it out , use a blowdryer , to kill the rest of the eggs . replace with all new substrate and plants.
 
bass n ri said:
send them to me i pay shipping
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I have tons of baby ramshorns and pond snails. I probably take 100 out every evening and throw them to my pond fish. PM me and we will talk.
 
OhNo123 said:
Well, you can use those snail killing agents, but if you do, you may never put another Invertebrate into that tank. All those snail killing agents have copper in it, which kills all inverts so unless you want inverts in that tank, dont do it.

You can try making a trap or just taking out all the gravel while the snail are inside..

Or maybe get some assassin snails to kill off all your snails. :D
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:crazy: Will the copper leech into driftwood and my plants? If no, if that's fine? I have a couple assassin snails on the move already. I have not seen one suck out a pond snail just yet. Question. Do they fully consume baby snails WITH the shells?(if they are small enough?)so are they bite-sized snacks to my 1 inch assassin snails?

:Angel:Omg msjinkzd is not here..??? Of all invert people lol

ladyblues1965 said:
dont understand why you would not want any snails?? they are great clean up crews. It would be so much better to collect as many as you can , send them to someone who would like to have them and empty the tank , clean it well , dry it out , use a blowdryer , to kill the rest of the eggs . replace with all new substrate and plants.
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Easier said than done. Ha.. You can't expect me to get new replace plants when I have collected over so much and they costed me over a lot of money... I don't want snails because well they have the tendency of eating plants/leafs..i know the mts don't but meh... I rather have the harder to find type of snails that are not common like nerite snails, assassin snails, and the like.
 
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I have heard those the copper in those snail killers is enough to kill your plants as well. Bleaching will damage or kill your plants and won't work for some snail species (your plants will die before the MTS probably will). Pond snails, ramhorns, and MTS do not eat healthy plants. I think the copper gets into the silicon of the tank so it stays forever but I am not positive on that.

Assassin snails only eat other snails of a certain size (around their own size)

http://arizonainverts.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=204

The link above has a lot of good info on assassin snails.
 
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