Another way to remove unwanted snail

[ladygaga]

I know there have one smart trap to collect unwanted snails: to put one piece of lettuce at the bottom of the tank before you sleep and collect it with snail next morning.
Don't know why it just doesn't work for me, either lettuce Singapore imported is not delicious or Singapore snails are too smart.

Now I have another way, fast and easy. Brothers, let's go:

1)Hope you guys have this one:
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2)Take out the cup:
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3) Now you have one very powerful snail remover! Just point-suck-next, super fast compared with your hands or tweezers.

Hope it's one more option for you and make your tank crystal clear....

[ladygaga]

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[itxno1]

Thank you for your suggestion.

[evilfry]

but in a planted tank bro, that will be very hard to manually try and suck them out right
i have been trying periodically to add copper into the tank and knock them out (it doesn't kill) so i can collect them. It doesn't harm the fishes at all but sadly not the best way too. Just makes me feel like redoing the whole tank in order to get rid of it.

[Wolfgangs246]

Have you guys considered the use of Assassin snails? Unless you are keeping other types of snails in the same tank, I've had good experiences with assassin snails decimating my pest snail population. The only downside is that it can take a couple of weeks to months.

[xXXXx13]

Assassin snails do does the job but any snails about 5mm or less will get away. I'm facing this problem now

[blue33]

if you have good supply of CO2, the snails shell will melt and they will die, dont need you to kill them at all.

[ladygaga]

but in a planted tank bro, that will be very hard to manually try and suck them out right
i have been trying periodically to add copper into the tank and knock them out (it doesn't kill) so i can collect them. It doesn't harm the fishes at all but sadly not the best way too. Just makes me feel like redoing the whole tank in order to get rid of it.

Thanks your sharing...
One more thing, shrimps are quite sensitive to copper....that's why I only bought ferts with detail list of containing, like Flourish Comprehensive.

[ladygaga]

Have you guys considered the use of Assassin snails? Unless you are keeping other types of snails in the same tank, I've had good experiences with assassin snails decimating my pest snail population. The only downside is that it can take a couple of weeks to months.

Never tried.
There have 4 red apple in my tank.... they will eat the snail occasionally. See below photo, the beauty is killing an unlucky small snail:

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[ladygaga]

if you have good supply of CO2, the snails shell will melt and they will die, dont need you to kill them at all.

Sorry, Disagree.

I have CO2 3bps (PH6.75) and that will not melt away shell.
Snails prefer hard water to soft as they need calcium to form their shell.

[blue33]

It shows that you did not have a good mixing of CO2. You can check with Unclerobin and he would tell you the same thing. We dont talk for nothing, we experienced it and try it ourself. It doesnt mean you inject 3bps and you get a good mixing of CO2 into the water column.

Sorry, Disagree.

I have CO2 3bps (PH6.75) and that will not melt away shell.
Snails prefer hard water to soft as they need calcium to form their shell.

[ladygaga]

It shows that you did not have a good mixing of CO2. You can check with Unclerobin and he would tell you the same thing. We dont talk for nothing, we experienced it and try it ourself. It doesnt mean you inject 3bps and you get a good mixing of CO2 into the water column.

I always suspect my CO2 system. I'd tried in tank diffuser, in line diffuser, reactor, dissolving cup+diffuser, none is 100% satisfied.

I will check and update...

[evilfry]

if that can melt their shells, then it must be very acidic?

[Cutedragon]

Can't place puffer??

[adeguay]

I know there have one smart trap to collect unwanted snails: to put one piece of lettuce at the bottom of the tank before you sleep and collect it with snail next morning.
Don't know why it just doesn't work for me, either lettuce Singapore imported is not delicious or Singapore snails are too smart.

Now I have another way, fast and easy. Brothers, let's go:

1)Hope you guys have this one:
5464758668_340e672812_z.jpg


2)Take out the cup:
5464159761_f08b520cf9_z.jpg


3) Now you have one very powerful snail remover! Just point-suck-next, super fast compared with your hands or tweezers.

Hope it's one more option for you and make your tank crystal clear....

Thank for your idea. Now my tank snail population have reduce by 90% after 1 week of using this equipment. Cheap and safe method.

[situkwokhan]

i am having many ram horn snail and they are eating away my plants so I think i do not have a snail problem.

however their numbers are huge!!

[o2bubble]

I think it will agree with bro blue that high co2 levels will sort of kill the snails. My tank used to have quite alot of snails but after maintaining co2 at high level, they totally disappeared. I am not sure if the dwarf loaches had played a part as well.

[ladygaga]

Thank for your idea. Now my tank snail population have reduce by 90% after 1 week of using this equipment. Cheap and safe method.

I'd ever almost "killed" all the snail through the way----Now I keep 10% of them alive since the little helix do some general maintenance jobs.

Thanks.

[lizhien]

Dwarf puffers will do the job beautifully.. Just not sure if they will go after shrimplets or the other fishes in the tank..

[fernfreak]

i was planning to restock a tank that had become overgrown with hair algae and tiny snails, but i couldn't decide whether to get clown loaches or puffers-- puffers being aggressive and i didn't want my main species to be a loach school. i went for rosy barbs for algae control, and within a day they had annihilated the entire snail population, even in hard to reach areas. those barbs make a good primary species for a tank as well.