Nerite Snails To Algae But Baby Assassin Snails Have Appeared!

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jancarius

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Hi,
 
Exactly as the title says! 
The story to this is that a few months back i had snails all over my tank due to some plants i purchased of Ebay.
I got 2 assassin snails and lo and behold they eradicated the problem within 2 months and saw no more pest snails.
So out of the blue i got black algae all over my tank so got 2 Nerite snails and currently are doing a lovely job of eating through the black algae. (assassins were moved to another tank)
any ways i was looking at my tank just now and saw a whole heap of baby snails every where... googled it and it turns out to be assassins snail offspring.
 
How do i get rid of the babies as i don't want them eating my nerite snails even though they are bigger? there seems to be more and more of them each time i look.
 
Many thanks!
 
Kam
 
you could sell them/ give them away on craigslist.
 
Lol thanks but I think you've missed the point. What's the best way of getting rid of these without harming the nerite snails
 
You could put the nerites in a breeding trap so that they can escape the assassins until you ran remove all the babies. The babies will be hiding in the substrate.
 

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