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    getting rid of snails

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    Need to get rid of snails, think they are ramshorn; quite young no larger than 2mm with a single colour tone shell.Right nw have cardinals and shrimps(yamato,cherry,glass) in my tank. Please advise?

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    Simple lah ... Just engage Juggler to train your glass shrimps! []

    On a more serious note, there are several ways to reduce your snail population :
    • Manual removal
    • SMALL (and preferably tattered) Dwarf Puffer
    • Rams
    • SMALL glass shrimps
    • Reduce algae! (my personal fav)
    ThEoDoRe

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    thanks for the advice. Will getting the puffer intimidate the other fish and shrimp?

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    I think licorice gourami will also eat snails. The good thing is that it takes flakes as well
    so it wont go hungry once all your snails are cleared

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    Will Rams take pellets or flake food as well?
    Or do they just purely take live food?
    What about the gourami?
    Read about it on the net and seems like its a "cave deweller"...and i have no caves for it in my planted tank...
    One also advise that it should not have too many neighbours!
    So to control my small population of snails,is a ram better or a gourami better? or a puffer?

    Cheers!

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    Snails are pretty good critters...just control the amount through weekly pickings should limit their amounts.
    Plant Physiology by Taiz and Zeiger

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    Badis badis badis.
    very good snail eater.

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    On 8/7/2003 12:18:13 AM

    Simple lah ... Just engage Juggler to train your glass shrimps! []

    On a more serious note, there are several ways to reduce your snail population :
    • Manual removal
    • SMALL (and preferably tattered) Dwarf Puffer
    • Rams
    • SMALL glass shrimps
    • Reduce algae! (my personal fav)

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    ha ha... I have made peace with the Ramshorn snails. I no longer put in glass shrimps to combat them in one of my tanks (Tank #3). The snails did a good job of keeping the tank glass clean so I need not scrub it. They also wipe clean any algae on the leaves. They eat dead leaves as well. I am not bothered by their numbers (actually not much around). I now love the snails so much that I introduced them in a newly setup tank. []

    But if you still want to get rid of them, glass shrimps are a cheap option:
    1) they eat leftover food so the snail population is kept in check.
    2) those hungrier shrimps can take on snails for food.

    The first and only puffer fish I got did not do his work of catching snails but nipping at the long fins of my Swordtails. So I don't quite trust them. But other folks seem to get good results from these puffers.
    koah fong
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    Hahaha...
    Think we can coexist then....

    Cheers!
    Sein

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    I have very good results with puffer. I have a small tank that had quite a number of snails in it. Put 1 puffer in, it immediately went to "work", happily chomping up the snails. the tank is cleared of snails within 2 days!!!

    Bad thing though is once there's no snails to feed on, puffers cannot be entirely "trusted" to behave and resist the temptations of ambushing other fishes![:]
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    I agree. It did the job to clear snails in 3 days, without disturbing anyone. I thot I was lucky. But after that he went after the tails of other fishies. I saw it with my own eyes man. He literally move like a X-Wing fighter, stop short at the target within a 2 cm range, and then he strike at the tail. After that I put him on the most wanted list and is now sitting alone in 'Alcatraz prison'. But I have admit the way it swims is quite fascinating, really like a space ship, with its eyes like moving leftrightupdown, like scanning for enemies...hee hee...

    Hey Adrodema, if you like, I don't mind releasing the 'prisoner' to you if you wanna come pick it up. But monitor its movments in the tank though.

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    I'm not too bothered with the snails thought...puffers are good but i prefer Rams they do a better job in general due to no fin nipping after finishing the snails.
    Cheers!

    Benetay

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    You can just remove the snails manually using the long pincers without getting your hands wet. Of course, only those above the mid tank. Unless, your pincer is long enough. A little pratise is required.

    Now, my parents also enjoyed doing it. I don't mind since i got extra helpers.

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    Just wondering....
    You remove liaos...then how u deal with them?
    Set them free elsewhere?
    Flush them?
    Crush and feed to fish?

    Cheers!

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    Clown loaches also love snails

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    Do badi badis really eat snails?

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    I would think the small red Badis badis might eat snail eggs and very young snails, while the larger blue species would be able to tackle larger shells.

    Has anyone wondered how these little fish manage in the wild? How do they find food? How do they evade predators? Why do they resemble a certain group of cichlids from South America in appearance and behaviour? Now these are questions I would really like to have answered.

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