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[scoliofish]

Ok i have a small problem.... well small creatures making a large problem
Snails millions of them chowing down on my plants...
i dont want to use chemicals coz i have a golden apple snail.so what small fish can i get hat looks good and will eat my snails
Freash water tank
42gal
would like a small school
comunity fish..
any sugestions are welcome... please help

P.S is this in the right section?

 

[Curiosity101]

Best way to remove pest snails is to use some bait.

Get a saucer or something with a piece of courgette or blanched spinach on it. Weigh it down on the saucer at the bottom of the tank and turn out the lights.

Leave it and hour or so and you should find it's covered in snails. Simply life them out and dispose.

Repeat the process as well as removing any snails you see and eventually you should be able to get rid of them all.

 

[scoliofish]

Best way to remove pest snails is to use some bait.

Get a saucer or something with a piece of courgette or blanched spinach on it. Weigh it down on the saucer at the bottom of the tank and turn out the lights.

Leave it and hour or so and you should find it's covered in snails. Simply life them out and dispose.

Repeat the process as well as removing any snails you see and eventually you should be able to get rid of them all.

cooliltry that, but i was thinking of getting a loach anyway what would bu the best one?
will kuhlis eat snails?

 

[JustKia]

I've never seen any of my Kuhli's eating snails.
However, the zebra loaches (botia striata) love to chow down on common pond snails. They don't seem very interested in malaysian trumpet snails though.

 

[scoliofish]

I've never seen any of my Kuhli's eating snails.
However, the zebra loaches (botia striata) love to chow down on common pond snails. They don't seem very interested in malaysian trumpet snails though.

i think i only have the pond snails and one apple snail

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

In my opinion you don't want something that eats snails because you don't want it to eat your apple snail. I think the bait idea is best becasue you can just move your snail if he gets on it.

 

[grasshopper_green]

I love my botia kubotai - they don't bother plants, they don't bother shrimp - they're beautiful - they don't bother nerite snails - but they absolutely clean up all mts, ramshorns and pond snails. they're the best. you need at least 3 of them though and sometimes they can be expensive.
look into botia kubotai !!

 

[Gilli]

You are overfeeding - you will only get a massive outbreak of snails if you overfeed!

Best course of action is to pick them off by hand - just squish them and drop them back into the tank - free nutricious food and your fish will love it!

 

[scoliofish]

You are overfeeding - you will only get a massive outbreak of snails if you overfeed!

Best course of action is to pick them off by hand - just squish them and drop them back into the tank - free nutricious food and your fish will love it!

icannotbe overfeeding...idonot putany food in that tank because here are no fish in
it...

and the apple snail is out of the picture i can put him in a different tank

will weater loaches eat snails?

 

[JustKia]

I love my botia kubotai - they don't bother plants, they don't bother shrimp - they're beautiful - they don't bother nerite snails - but they absolutely clean up all mts, ramshorns and pond snails. they're the best. you need at least 3 of them though and sometimes they can be expensive. look into botia kubotai !!

Do you have plants in your tank and if so do the kubotai leave them alone?

 

[scoliofish]

I love my botia kubotai - they don't bother plants, they don't bother shrimp - they're beautiful - they don't bother nerite snails - but they absolutely clean up all mts, ramshorns and pond snails. they're the best. you need at least 3 of them though and sometimes they can be expensive. look into botia kubotai !!

Do you have plants in your tank and if so do the kubotai leave them alone?

ya i do have plants...
will a botia striata eat plants?

 

[JustKia]

My botia striata don't touch my plants, but I read that kubotai sometimes do.
I wondered if grasshopper_green had any plants and if their kubotai were fine with them (if so I might look at getting a small group of kubotai).
My striata seem to have maxed out at just under 4". They don't bother any of the other community fish and aren't fin nippers (although I seem to have an anti-nipping tank as my neons don't fin nip either).

 

[aly_starh]

try assassin snails, i have the same snail infestation problem, going to buy a few assassin snails!

 

[RadaR]

You are overfeeding - you will only get a massive outbreak of snails if you overfeed!

Best course of action is to pick them off by hand - just squish them and drop them back into the tank - free nutricious food and your fish will love it!

icannotbe overfeeding...idonot putany food in that tank because here are no fish in
it...

Were are the snails getting their food then? Can't reproduce without food.

 

[scoliofish]

You are overfeeding - you will only get a massive outbreak of snails if you overfeed!

Best course of action is to pick them off by hand - just squish them and drop them back into the tank - free nutricious food and your fish will love it!

icannotbe overfeeding...idonot putany food in that tank because here are no fish in
it...

Were are the snails getting their food then? Can't reproduce without food.

THE plants..?

assasin snail sounds like a good idea
do they eat algea too?