I recently bought some Java Moss from Petsmart that was infested with snails. Now, they r in my tank and reproducing rapidly. Half of my plants r destroyed. I read how some people catch the snails using salt shakers and lettuce. I hope it works... No more plants from Petsmart. After I catch the snails, I hope to try other plants. I ordered some new ones from aquamagic (ebay) and I was thinking of ordering some moss off of the ac classifieds.
Petsmart Snails!
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Aquaticmagic is pretty good about not having random snails in the package. but that doesn't mean that they still can. The snails that you got are going to have to be trapped using a food source(try using some fish food?), otherwise poisoned. Another route would be to get some assasin snails. I'm sure Jinkz may know of a poisoning method.
D: Sorry for the infestation. Yeah, try and bait them. You got plants from aquamagic.....? Well first of all let me tell ya..it's hard to trust them. The shipment usually doesnt even get to you;well in my experience, I ordered a plant from them with free shipping, and it didn't even come from august 3rd to now.
I take a piece of zuchinni, weight it down in the evening, and the next morning you will have most of the snails on the zuchinni and you won't have to use chemicals!
I am not for sure there is a way to totally remove them. Reduce your feedings that should cut back on them.
What I would recommend is to manually pick out as many adults as possible. Then you can take an old clean water bottle and cut off the top just where it starts to taper. Invert this and stick it with the threaded top on the inside of the bottle. Place some veg inside the bottle and place it in the tank around lights out. check the trap about 2 hours later, remove snails, replace, repeat. You could also pull the plants and do a 20:1 water to bleach dip to kill snail eggs or use potassium permanganate. If you do the bleach dip, be sure to rinse the plants well in dechlorinated water before replacing. Also, increase gravel vacs and decrease feeding substantially until the snails are under control.
buying a fish to eradicate the problem..is not typically a good solution.
you can do as suggested and clean the tank..or simply reduce food ..the snail populations is usually directly tied to food source..reduce food for the snails and reduce the population of snails.
having snails is not always a bad thing. many are part of the 'clean up crew'
you can do as suggested and clean the tank..or simply reduce food ..the snail populations is usually directly tied to food source..reduce food for the snails and reduce the population of snails.
having snails is not always a bad thing. many are part of the 'clean up crew'
I agree. I also think they are an excellent gauge of how well tanks are maintained and whether or not one is overfeeding.