Snails Attacking..... And Attacking...

**Rooster** · 14th May 2010, 13:17

I've got tiny water snails growing feriociously in my tank....
I'm aware of and have tried some of the non-chemical approaches to snail removal (manual removal, blanched veggies, ...etc.)
I was just wondering, are there any brands of chemical that anyone has tried which has SAFELY removed the snails without killing fish and plants?

I've got mainly tetras (neon, cardinal and rummy nose) in my tank. Can anyone advise? Thanks!

**eviltrain** · 14th May 2010, 13:25

get 1 or 2 killer snail, job done.

**sheng** · 14th May 2010, 13:25

Try using the Killer snails

**Rooster** · 14th May 2010, 14:48

the thing is... wouldn't I be replacing a snail with another?

I know they're slow to breead but the idea of snails in my tank is unpleasant. Anyone tried using chemicals? Any TRULY safe ones out there?

**felix_fx2** · 14th May 2010, 17:27

chemicals... no matter how low content it is you can't change the fact your using it.
if you don't want, give the extra ones out.

I just bought 3 killers and i am feeding them my excess pond snails to them.
i used to have 2 but they dug in and never came out

**r4211z** · 14th May 2010, 18:16

and if you notice, the killer snails will whack only the bigger snails.
I see a lot of empty shells on the sand.
The smaller ones get ignored.

I manually crushed thos visiable ones.. shimps love to eat them.

**felix_fx2** · 14th May 2010, 19:22

bro, your right.
noticed that they attack larger ones 1st, smallers ones only if they can't find food.

Currently using the floating tanks to keep them from running till out of sight.