Ah Snails!

[PerryClem0842]

Just managed to set up a really nice 100L tank in my living room, about 1:00pm I bought a piece of bog wood with some Java fern attached to it, several hours later I came back to find that my tank has about 50 pest snails up the front, back and sides of the glass, these are really spoiling the tank and are really not wanted.
Please list as many ways I could get rid of these.

 

[shelaghfishface]

float lettuce on the top of the tank.. they will all go for a munch and in the morning bin it! ( will need several goes tho )

 

[PerryClem0842]

float lettuce on the top of the tank.. they will all go for a munch and in the morning bin it! ( will need several goes tho )

Now about to try that.
Thank you

 

[Meggie :)]

Lettuce didn't work for me but I loooove me some assassin snails!!!!

 

[PerryClem0842]

Lettuce didn't work for me but I loooove me some assassin snails!!!!

Already got one but he doesn't seem to be helping,
no snails at all really though.

Thanks though

 

[dfield]

I only get them in my molly tank, the kribs/loaches in my other tank eat them. I know it sounds cruel but I pick them regularly out of the molly tank, wash them and drop them into my krib/loach tank. It solves a problem and the kribs/loaches get a bit of live food.

Once they are in your tank, you'll be picking them out forever though I usually have a daily trawl. If you dont have any fish that will eat them, then I think the best thing would be to pick them out and bin them. If you look closely on your tank glass you may see little transparent swirls those are snail eggs. You can squash them out but if you have plants its probably a thankless task as you'd never get them all.

 

[CezzaXV]

I crush them with my planting tweezers. My fish will argue over the remains! I wish they sold crushed snails in the LFS

 

[Dieses Madchen]

yeah, i was going to say crushem with you see them. the fish will love a tasty snack

 

[PerryClem0842]

I might try these ideas even get a loach when ive got rid of the nitrate

 

[Baccus]

Some loaches are better than others at snail destruction, I haven't seen my Khuli loaches so much as glance at a snail but my Pakastani Loaches have proved themselves to be expert snail dispatchers, even my two young ones are getting stuck into the snails they can manage. Ideally though I would stick to trapping the snails on bait food, I have found raw carrot wonderful for attracting the snails and then all you have to do is scrape them off the carrot and if it hasn't all been eaten put it back in to catch another load of snails. If you keep up daily assults on the snails you might be able to be rid of them.