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u can add salt!!!
juz not too much little amount will do !!![:]
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What is the safest way(for the plants)to make sure that no snails will be transferred to a snail-free tank when you buy new plants? Is there something else other than bleach?
u can add salt!!!
juz not too much little amount will do !!![:
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Just fyi, I tried to eradicate Pond Snail with SALT. Seems no effect to the tank.
Worried my Corys will do badly so did not test to the extreme.
Inspect the new plants before planting them in.
Look out for eggs/snails.
I have no idea how snail eggs looks like, I just plant in the new plants and let nature takes its course.
They may look like little white dots in a white membrane among plants leaves..I've seen these membranes amongst my plants.
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Hi Cory....cories are pretty okay with salt treatment....I have cories under salt treatment. If happened that your tank is infected with pond snails, lowering KH and having fish like rams and aspitos will help....
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Hmmm... if I can I'll take a pic, I get snail eggs all the time.
Snail eggs are encased in a transparent blob of gel. As the eggs mature, they become tiny visible dots in the gel.
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Thought most snails are harmless. How about rams horn snails? I see a lot of them in my tank, do they attack the plants? What kind of snails is considered dangerous?
Any pics will be nice.
To remove snails from newly bought plants, juz give them a good wash. I never encourage bleaching esp for sensitive plants.
Actually for me I simply leave the snails alone. Afterall, they do help in tank maintenance i.e. clearing dead matters and eat some algae. They don't seem to harm my plants so why bother with them. The worse they can do is cause a bit of an eyesore.
Up to you if you still want to rid them.
yiannis: like sher said, just wash them throughly, the eggs are transparent so may be a bit hard to spot, but just wash properly esp using your fingers to "scrub" clean every leaf, should be able to remove the eggs and any snails.
Adi: there are lots of threads on snails in the aquarium with many differing views and experiences, best do a search and check it out yourself
Currently I am trying to bred ramhorn snails - very orange translucent type in my 3 ft. As they add colours to the tank.
David, thanks for the info.
I add a bit of SALT when I feel the tank is not very right or when I add new fishes.
Never play with KH ... no plan to start yet.
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Hi,to control the snail you can try to add 1 or 2 SMALL(young) Botia Macrantha (Clown Fish) or Botia Striata (Botia India).The young/small one has better appetite than the bigger one.
They are effective eating the snail's egg. But if the snail is highly populated then no other option to get in the Puffer Fish, but be carefull as puffer can also attact your shrimps ! 1 puffer fish can eat 30 amano shrimps a day....
Good luck
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On 4/25/2003 9:59:38 AM
Hi,to control the snail you can try to add 1 or 2 SMALL(young) Botia Macrantha (Clown Fish) or Botia Striata (Botia India).The young/small one has better appetite than the bigger one.
They are effective eating the snail's egg. But if the snail is highly populated then no other option to get in the Puffer Fish, but be carefull as puffer can also attact your shrimps ! 1 puffer fish can eat 30 amano shrimps a day....
Good luck
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Clown loaches do handle the snail population well but I wouldn't advise as the can grow to quite a large size. As they get bigger the digging power gets stronger and you'll see more short rooted plants floating. In some tanks, ppl have complained that they were munching on plants.
I have to disagree that the puffer would eat yamatos like you mentioned. Dwarf puffers nip on fins/tails of fishes but never i've seen them eating live fish/shrimps. a_scape, hat puffer fish are you talking about?
Puffers are supposed to love snails. But I heard they will take leaves when there aint any more snails. Havent tried them myself though, dont have a problem with snails. In fact I love them cos no other form of algae crew can survive my aro!!!
No, puffers do not take leaves. They will rather die than to take leaves... really...----------------
On 4/25/2003 5:14:46 PM
Puffers are supposed to love snails. But I heard they will take leaves when there aint any more snails. Havent tried them myself though, dont have a problem with snails. In fact I love them cos no other form of algae crew can survive my aro!!!
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Clown loaches do handle the snail population well but I wouldn't advise as the can grow to quite a large size. As they get bigger the digging power gets stronger and you'll see more short rooted plants floating. In some tanks, ppl have complained that they were munching on plants.
I have to disagree that the puffer would eat yamatos like you mentioned. Dwarf puffers nip on fins/tails of fishes but never i've seen them eating live fish/shrimps. a_scape, hat puffer fish are you talking about?
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That's why I advise to get young clown loaches, normally once mine is grow bigger I'll go back to the shop and do free exchange with the small young one.
I quote the article of Aqua Journal saying that puffer fish is effective to eliminate snails (that ruin leaves)and once the snail finish they also like to have "amano shrimp" as their snack.
I also have an experience using the puffer fish (exactly like in Aq Journal) and at that time the first one is die only stand 1 night because of over snacking the snail (guess more than 50 snails/day) and the second one is also die after cleaning the rest of snails in the tank...amazing !
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my co2 is fed through a reactor at 5 bubbles per second
and the kH is as near zero as you can imagine
the only times i see snails are the babies
and they never grow bigger than 1mm
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