What chemicals do you use?

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wbaker01

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While researching why we can't keep snails alive in our tank, I'm coming to the conclusion that we may have copper in our tap water. None of the LFS's near us have copper testing kits so I haven't been able to confirm that conclusion yet. What I am wondering is if we do have copper in our water, what can we use to remove it?
I read online today that API's Tap Water conditioner removes it but was wondering if other products remove it as well. We use Prime during water changes and Stress Zyme from time to time as well, our fish are fine, it's just the snails that we have becoming experts at killing and we'd really like to have some snails in our tank.
Another question is, I am wondering what other chemicals people use from time to time in their tanks. Are we using too little chemicals using just the Prime and Stress Zyme? Should we also use Stress Coat?

Thanks,
Bill
 
How long do the snails usually live?
 
The snails usually live a day or so, if that. Water parameters are fine and we've never used copper in the tank for any reason.
We've also bought all of them at PetSmart, maybe that's our problem :-)
 
What kind of fish do you have? If I put them in my 90 gallon my fish would look at them and say lunch.lots of fresh water fish do eat snails.Snails can over run your tank without prediters to keep them in check. :shark:
 
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