my new 125 gallon snail farm...

[The Zigman]

Holy Smokes, i got snails.. How fast do this things reproduce?

Just the other day I could only find 5 in the tank, now like a week later, I must have at least 30.

Anyway, What FW fish will eat these friggin pond snails, and be a good tankmate for discus?

But more importantly what is this string like stuff that is covering my driftwood? Is this snail poop?
The snails are all over in this stuff, they must like it or something...

 

[---MR.CLEAN---]

I have never seen this before i dont think unless it is LOTS OF snail poop
here is sight there are millions more of sites remember that nay help you out

http://www.drhelm.com/aquarium/snails.html

 

[msjinkzd]

That is poop, looks like either ramshorn or pond snail. you must have quite the collection!

 

[The Zigman]

I havent even begun to cycle this tank yet... Was going to use biospira... Looks like with this much snail poop that my cycle might have started already?

I thought I had just pond snails... what do rams horns look like?

 

[Fishy_Fun]

heres a pic



if you dont want the pond snails you could throw a piece of lettuce in there and they'll be all over it in no time then you can just discard the lettuce

 

[msjinkzd]

 

[FtwayneFish]

nice poop. I know loaches love snails.

 

[grannylvsfish]

holy cow ! thats a lot of poop never knew a snail could make such a mess LOL!

 

[The Zigman]

holy cow ! thats a lot of poop never knew a snail could make such a mess LOL!

Only in my tank...
I am going to get about 5 clown loaches when I am sure the tank is cycled... That'll fix 'em!!:cool-1:

 

[Squawkbert]

Clown loaches are among the larger species seen in the trade. Horseface, Skunk, YoYo and other species are smaller and will make just as short work of the snail population. You could also manually remove them (not as tough as it sounds) and prevent serious outbreaks in the future by limiting food in the tank.

While loaches are effective snail control, they can also be quite boisterous and/or at least somewhat aggressive. They are not the best tankmates for some fish... (Angels, Discus, other species that like things to be pretty quiet & mellow, very small fish).