Snails everywhere!

[kindaconfused]

Hey, my boyfriend doesn't notice it yet, but i put my snail in his tank and uhh... there are babies everywhere!!! how do i make it stop??? how do i kill them? there's at least 30 and its only been a week or two!

shhhhh!!!!

 

[JNevaril]

before you go to bed...put a piece of lettuce/cucumber in the tank.

the next morning, pull the piece of lettuce/cucumber out, and it will be covered in the snails.

 

[discus4everGrl]

a couple clown loaches will devour baby snails

 

[kindaconfused]

awesome, thanks guys!

 

[Fish Friend]

OR you can risk it by using chemical treatment... it kills the snails but it turns you water very bad because the shells still stay there and rot or you could try the painstaking job of just finding them yourself lol

 

[kindaconfused]

lol, tried the looking around for them thing, seems i missed about all of them!!! i think i'll try the lettuce. thanks guys.

 

[ram man]

i play a game with my betta. i crush the snails on the wall of the tank and he eats them.

 

[JNevaril]

i need snails like crazy.

4 puffers with HUGE APPETITES>

oye.

 

[FisheyLisa]

Ha haa! That's funny! Was it a joke? hee hee. CLown loaches need a pretty big tank if you use that option, but you will never see another snail again...then you'd have to make up something for why you have put loaches in the tank, they are a little more noticable.

 

[CoNMaN]

yoyo loaches are smaller and will still exterminate all your snail woes

 

[radamsk1]

Just get your hands wet and go *CRUNCH* and take 'em out! Better than chemical method, quick and painless... unless you pierce your skin and get an odd infection -- read a story about that one once, woman almost lost her arm... but generally it's safe. Don't even really nee to squish them, just yank them out. Do a few a day, hopefully you can keep up with their reproduction.

 

[Chazwick]

unless you pierce your skin and get an odd infection -- read a story about that one once, woman almost lost her arm... but generally it's safe.

That'll really persuade somebody to use that method lol

 

[DEADLIFT]

Well combine em, remove as many as u can, then use the chemicals to make sure

 

[Ramirezi]

I leave a dozen or so in the tank to clean the plants. I do the pick them out method, then throw them out in a pail that I have under the down spout and the birds eat them when they come close to the top of the pail.