Problems with snails and vampire shrimp

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burnse

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My 46 bowfront has currently got 5 three-lined corys (I had six but just found snails feasting on the carcass of one) :(

It also has a vampire shrimp, about 3.5", and a fairly large mystery snail.

I also happen to have hundreds of snails which should NOT be in there :angryfire:

I need something that eats them, but will leave my mystery snail and vampire alone.

Suggestions?
 
your best bet would to bait and catch them. i wouldnt advise to get any fish to clean your tank of snails. any thing that will eat small snails, will certainly try to eat big snails or harrass them.
 
I agree with Bullit. Take an old water bottle, cut the top off (right where it widens), invert it, and place it back in the bottle. Then put a piece of zucchini, lettuce, green bean, wafer inside as bait. Place in the tank at lights out. Check a few hours later and remove any pest snails...repeat. This way you don't add a critter that could harm/harass your apple snails but you thin populations of your "pest" snail. I like to crush the pest snails for a treat for my fish.
 
If you do the bottle trap method, make sure you are able to check at it at least once an hour. Fish can get stuck inside sometimes and die because they don't know how to get out.
 
I had a puffer fish , but had to get rid of it, when I got 3 vampire shrimps. The puffer kept tormenting them, luckily I removed the puffer soon enough that no damage was done to the shrimp. I didn't think the puffer would bother the shrimp, given it was at least twice the size of the puffer.

Speaking of the vampire shrimp....they are wild. I've never seen anything in a fish tank sleep the way the vampire shrimp do. They lay on their side and look dead. When one of the corys comes along, all you see is the antennae twitch, but they don't move.
 
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