Mayu
Fish Crazy
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I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 mollies and a few x-rays.
I brought in some live plants, and then the snail population exploded. (I'm assuming they're bladder snails), the largest ones are not quite as big as my pinky fingernail. They're pretty small.
I've tried lettuce. I get rid of a bunch, but more take their place.
I've hand picked them out...
I've vacuumed them out (along with a lot of what appear to be dead snails)
I've pulled back on the feeding... while I was out of town for 3 days I didn't add a weekend feeder... and due to an emergency with my puppy, I was out of town 5 days instead of 3 days.
no matter what I do, there are just more and more and more and more. I find tons of what look like sticky water drops on my decorations which I take out and squish (assuming they are snail eggs)
It just seems I turn the light out at night, and when I turn the light on in the morning, they are crawling over the sides of the tank in swarms.
I added a theraputic dosage of aquarium salt (since I used salt to treat an outbreak of ick, and all my fish did fine...) but it did nothing. Then I read online small snails can have a high tollerance for aquarium salt.
They've gotten so bad, my bottom feeder died, cause I think they ate off all of the food supply. I can't take it. I'm at wits end!
So someone recommended getting a clown loach... (not realizing I'm sure, that they get a foot long and are not appropriate for a tank that size.)
I did see there is a Panda loach that gets to be 2-2.5" as adults that are peaceful.
Do you think those would help eat off the extreme snail infestation? (I have a 30 gallon I could transfer them over to after they do their job if 20 gallons is too small once they get fully grown.) I was thinking 2 or 3.
I brought in some live plants, and then the snail population exploded. (I'm assuming they're bladder snails), the largest ones are not quite as big as my pinky fingernail. They're pretty small.
I've tried lettuce. I get rid of a bunch, but more take their place.
I've hand picked them out...
I've vacuumed them out (along with a lot of what appear to be dead snails)
I've pulled back on the feeding... while I was out of town for 3 days I didn't add a weekend feeder... and due to an emergency with my puppy, I was out of town 5 days instead of 3 days.
no matter what I do, there are just more and more and more and more. I find tons of what look like sticky water drops on my decorations which I take out and squish (assuming they are snail eggs)
It just seems I turn the light out at night, and when I turn the light on in the morning, they are crawling over the sides of the tank in swarms.
I added a theraputic dosage of aquarium salt (since I used salt to treat an outbreak of ick, and all my fish did fine...) but it did nothing. Then I read online small snails can have a high tollerance for aquarium salt.
They've gotten so bad, my bottom feeder died, cause I think they ate off all of the food supply. I can't take it. I'm at wits end!
So someone recommended getting a clown loach... (not realizing I'm sure, that they get a foot long and are not appropriate for a tank that size.)
I did see there is a Panda loach that gets to be 2-2.5" as adults that are peaceful.
Do you think those would help eat off the extreme snail infestation? (I have a 30 gallon I could transfer them over to after they do their job if 20 gallons is too small once they get fully grown.) I was thinking 2 or 3.