Damn snails

[Sgooosh]

Please elaborate....I've never heard of assassin snail birth control (?)

Assassin snails also can multiply a lot given good care

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Assassin snails also can multiply a lot given good care

I've never heard of them breeding out of control, though.

 

[Sgooosh]

I've never heard of them breeding out of control, though.

on another forum there was an incident about this i read about

 

[Lynnzer]

I'm really bloody annoyed about the infestation right now. I moved the fish, shrimp and the couple of assasins into another tank and started an execrcise in snail annihilation. The overwhelming advice found online is to use Gastropex.
Well, I did just that. I gave it the mandatory 3 day dosing and the snails just kept on going.
Really miffed now, I did a 3 day double dose.
The buggers are still racing all over the place.
The problem is that I want to use the foam bubble filter and the plants in another tank.
I know I can probably get rid of the snails and any eggs by doing a bleach dip of the plants but I don't want to have to bleach the filter for obvious reasons. I need a fully cycled one for a new tank.
It says on the Gastropex packet that it's fish friendly and shrimp friendly. I thin this is a bit of an understatment. It's also snail friendly. Gastropex. Waste of money. It doesn't do what it says on the packet.

 

[Lynnzer]

I'm rid of the damn things at last. I dosed the tank with an excessive Easylife Easycarbo. I also took the plants out and bleached them so I have them in use already, suitably washed clean of course.
Now that the tank snails have suffered genocide, I can take out the filters for use in the new tank I just built, waiting for water as in the image

 

[GaryE]

If there was copper in the med, hobby lore says it can be absorbed into the silicone. So if that's true, you don't rinse it out. I've never researched to see if that's a myth or reality, as I don't use copper. I have a deep hatred of bladder snails, as they eat the eggs of my killies that should be successfully breeding in planted tanks. Bladder snails stop that.
Squish and remove, an awful but effective process.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

If there was copper in the med, hobby lore says it can be absorbed into the silicone. So if that's true, you don't rinse it out. I've never researched to see if that's a myth or reality, as I don't use copper. I have a deep hatred of bladder snails, as they eat the eggs of my killies that should be successfully breeding in planted tanks. Bladder snails stop that.
Squish and remove, an awful but effective process.

Cories go absolutely nuts for freshly squished snails.

I had a seriously bad infestation of pesky snails years ago, squished them every morning for months using a spatula....Cories lapped them up, I couldn't squish them quickly enough for the little piggies

 

[Lynnzer]

Well, bugger me !!!!!
I'm actually putting a pair of Badis Badis into the new tank, so snails would have been a free lunch for them.

I just hope I can satisfy their appetite anyway as they are supposedly very picky eaters. I'm putting some golden shrimp in with them as they can always feed on those if needed. I have lots of 'em

 

[Lynnzer]

Well, they're back again - sort of.
The new tank that I put the filter into from the infested tank has been free of snails, or at least I haven't seen any in there yet.
However the infested tank that had full double dose and more of Gastropex, then loads of Easycarbo to overwhlem the water and reduce oxygen content has been refilled after a substrate clean (hoover). And then filled with water again and what the heck ---- more snails have appeared. The substrate had been left marginally covered in water so they had somehow managed to survive all that I tried to do.
I've squashed 3 medium sized, and about 10 pin-prick sizes so have recently hatched out.
More investigation and it seems they breathe air, which is probably why we see them racing to the top of the tank so often. As I have no plants in the tank yet I'll leave it as it stands and catch the buggers clmbing the glass.
Now,another thought. They truly are supposed to breathe air, so presumably they can't dissolve oxygen from the water.
If that's the case then perhaps if they are in a tank that has a film of clingfilm on top of the water with no access to air, they may die off like that. Might just experiment and see

 

[Deleted member 149562]

I came to the conclusion that there are nuclear snails in our midst who absolutely refuse to die....they are as indestructable as a cockroach and millions of times more annoying.

 

[Rocky998]

I came to the conclusion that there are nuclear snails in our midst who absolutely refuse to die....they are as indestructable as a cockroach and millions of times more annoying.

The difference between a cockroach and a snail is: One can be squashed easily and the other (the cockroach) just doesnt squish... You have to hammer them five times