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[Durbkat]

No I'd get rid of it because before you know it you could have hundreds of snails in your tank. So get rid of every one you see or if you want to keep it get a 1g with air stone and see what it does if it gets bigger or reproduces.

 

[love_fish]

lol, now I cant find him. He must have dug into my sand. SO I guess I'll just wait for him to turnup and get rid of him. What should I do with him though?

 

[Durbkat]

If you want to keep it get a 1g with air stone and see what it does if it gets bigger or reproduces.

:stupid: LOL

 

[love_fish]

If you want to keep it get a 1g with air stone and see what it does if it gets bigger or reproduces.

:stupid: LOL

lol, I kinda meant if I didnt want to keep him. If I can't find someone who'll take him, should I kill it?

 

[Durbkat]

Yeah if you have a pleco he might eat it if not just take your index finger and thumb and crush it.

 

[love_fish]

Yeah if you have a pleco he might eat it if not just take your index finger and thumb and crush it.

Hmmm, sounds good to me.

 

[Durbkat]

Or you could eat it.

 

[Synirr]

Personally, I recommend trumpet snails. As long as you don't overfeed you shouldn't be overrun, and they're not that unsightly anyway as they stay in the substrate most of time. Should you get too many, you can just put a bottom-feeder wafer or some other tasty treat in a shallow bowl/plate and collect a plate full of snails in 24 hours. Repeat as many times as is necessary. If the fish bother the snail bait you can put it in a bottle instead

Gouramies are a very wide-ranging group of fish. Just as you can get peaceful keyholes, aggressive mbuna, the dwarf rams, tiny shell-dwellers or sensitive discus when it comes to cichlids, you can get giant osphronemus gouramies, tiny sparklers, peaceful pearls, soltary, highly-territorial bettas, or aggressive paradisefish in gouramies.

I dunno if you actually meant it that way or if I just read it wrong, but for the record, bettas are not a type of gourami... they are closely related, however.

 

[Lynden]

From what I have heard about trumpet snails, I would recommend them to. Also, a snail problem is not the end of the world; there are many traps and chemicals to rid of them.

Never underestimate a gourami; my cousin had a dwarf gourami, that was in a tank with a red-bellied piranha, and the gourami continually defeated the piranha, ripping up its fins and chasing it around. But the gourami was boiled one day under an extreme temperature jump from the heater.

One more thought: opalines, from my experience, are not very aggresive; they continually hide and are dominated.

 

[love_fish]

OK, I guess I'll just get 2 trumpet snails then.

Thanks for the tip Synirr and help from everyone else.