when can I add snails?

CaitxSith

CaitxSith

A little too obsessed with neons.
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The pond with some Triops
I'm with the ick treatment (almost over!!! just 1 week left!)... but salt+snail=dead snail so how do i be SURE that there are no salt in my tank?


i just noticed something lol. how do snails live in salt water?
 
the salt in your tank will NOT kill snails. the way salt kills land snails is by drying their bodies out, and salt is not toxic to snails unless in high volume.
 
i dont know the exact ratio if you were to use a hydrometer, but if you have dosed for ich and you change half the water then it will not be too high then.
 
well, i did 3 water changes so far... (that leaves 1 more week lol). all 20%.

answer my post please! :3

*EDIT* lol i guess i was too late lol.
 
There is alot of un-true information in this post.

Small amounts of salt will kill a freshwater snail. Think back to when you were a kid. Did you ever put salt on a snail and watch them fizz? Freshwater snails are just as sensitive.

Some species of snails will eat plants no matter how well fed. Pomacea canaculata (canas) and Pomacea haustrum are two popular snails in the pet trade and will mow down a tank.

Other popular snails such as Pomacea bridgesii (brigs or mystery snails), spixis, mts, and ramshorns will not eat live plants even if starving.

Spixis will eat live plants as babies but not enough to damage the plant.

Marisas will also nibble on plants and are considered plant eaters but will also not do enough harm to damage the plant.

Your on the right track with you water changes. Taste the water and see if it tastes like the ocean. If it does keep on changing!....Only kidding though. If I was you I would do several large water changes and put snails in and you should be fine. There really is no way to know if you got all the salt out besides testing the water. Be sure to clean the gravel well and go for it!
 
OK, I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't saying that FW snails can live in SW or anything like that, I was just saying that IME they can live through low salities for disease treatment as well as FW fish. my RH lived through a fungus treatment. and it's not the same with land snails... it's completely different. I stand by what I said before--- the land snails die from dehydration because the salt messes up their body chemistry. I have kept brigs in FW tanks full of plants, and no harm came to the plants until I stopped feeding them once, and then as soon as i fed them they stopped.
 
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taste the water lol.

soo.........

i guess one more water change (the usual 20%) and a gravel vac will do?

btw, i do gravel vacs every other week. should i change to every week?
 
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