Snail Preventation

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What's the best way to make sure Snails do not enter the Aquarium on new plants?

It has to be 100% effective, hell maybe 200% effective.
 
What's the best way to make sure Snails do not enter the Aquarium on new plants?

It has to be 100% effective, hell maybe 200% effective.

Keep at least 1 YoYo loach..... I have the same problem... they are unsightly when they take over... esp. the Trumpets.
 
What's the best way to make sure Snails do not enter the Aquarium on new plants?

Dip them in a molluscide like potassium permanganate for a period of time (typically 20 minutes, but depends on the concentration).

It has to be 100% effective, hell maybe 200% effective.
There is no such thing as "200% effective". If it works completely, it's 100% effective. If it doesn't work completely, it's some percentage between 0 and 100%. If it doesn't work at all, it's 0% effective.

Snails are quite useful animals, and in tanks with a sandy substrate, Malayan livebearing snails are well worth adding. Nerite snails are hands-down the single most effective algae-eaters in the freshwater hobby, far better than any catfish or shrimp. What comes as a surprise to some people is that snails are unable to break the laws of physics. To hear some people talk, you'd imagine they somehow multiply in numbers without any need for food. Obviously that's rubbish. What snails do is convert uneaten food and organic detritus into snails. The messier (the more badly maintained) your aquarium, the more snails you'll get. Since snails breed inside filters, among other things you'll need to clean your mechanical filtration media on a regular basis. Almost everyone with a snail problem also has a hygiene problem, so snails should be viewed as a symptom, not the problem itself.

Snail numbers are not difficult to control. There are plenty of snail-eating animals, my favourites being Clea helena, the snail-eating snail. Loaches and puffers will make some headway into them too, and to a lesser extent so will various cichlids and catfish.

Cheers, Neale
 
Get some Assasin snails if you really need to get rid of the pest snails. However I agree that snails do a good job and therefore should be looked on as a bonus. :good:
 
i like having a few snails in my tank, i rarely see them anyway, and they don't do enough damage for me to worry too much. if there's ever a little outbreak of them i trap them by cutting down feeding my fish, then put a piece of cucumber or something similar in a jar, put the jar in the tank and leave it over night. in the morning it'll be full of snails and you can take the whole thing out
 
a lot of my snails have dissapeared and im seeing lots of empty shells. I think my Kribs have learned to suck them out of their shells :blink:
 
the same as the above happens in my tank, I put it down to the snails having so many babies that the food supplies run low, the fittest survive and then the food builds up and the cycle starts over.
 

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