I guess they are from the gravel, they appeared 1 or 2 at first and I removed them, now there are hundreds of them and I don't know how to remove them without having to get rid of the gravel and recycle the tank again. It houses my 4 African Dwarf Frogs and 1 Pearl Gourami, she is still very small.
I have two 55 gallon tanks but the inhabitants in these tanks will no doubt kill and possibly eat the frogs and pearl.
I have considered removing them to a 3 gallon bucket with air stone and heat, then over salting or chlorine bleaching the tank.
Anyone know of a simpler and/or safer way?
Thanks in advance!
2007-06-18 03:56:39 · 6 answers · asked by Tammy 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
First, the Had a Snail will harm or possible kill the frogs, especially in a dosage high enough to kill all of the snails.
If you want the tank completely snail free your suggestion of over salting would be the way to go.
If you can live with a few in the tank I would suggest trapping out the majority.
Use a small plastic food container with a snap on top. Poke holes large enough for the snails but too small for the fish around the container. Place s few pieces of gravel from the tank insode the container to weight it down in the tank and bait it with a piece of lettuce. Place this in the tank over night several days in a row and you will be amazed how many snails you can remove this way.
MM
2007-06-18 04:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are your snails Malaysian trumpet snails by any chance: http://www.yamatogreen.com/MalaysianTrumpetSnails.htm ? These would be the types most associated with being in the gravel of your tank. Having a few of these is beneficial because they do a good job of cleaning into the gravel, but if you've got a population explosion, they have too much food.
An easy (and environmentally safe) way to get rid of them is to use bait - add a lettuce leaf to the tank and weight it down with some gravel before you turn off the lights. Overnight, the snails will crawl onto the leaf to feed, so in the morning, you can remove the leaf and snails all at once. You may need to repeat this a few times to get most of them out.
Once most are gone, do a thorough gravel cleaning with a gravel vacuum to remove as much of the waste as possible from the gravel. With less food, the remaining snails won't reproduce as quickly. Don't worry about eggs if it's the Malaysians you've got - these snails bear live young.
Malaysians are small, but they have a tougher shell than most other snails and snail-eating fish don't have as much impact on these.
2007-06-18 04:28:00 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A snail and a handful of shrimp might be satisfactory. Shrimp placed an particularly, particularly small quantity of pressure at the bio-load. Your tank is not terrible for a betta, however a two+ might be larger (and that is at a minimal). (Also, in order that you already know, they Photoshop the ones pix out the yin-yang to cause them to seem greater. In truth they might certainly not be ready to residence five platies, like they exhibit within the photograph.) But as I mentioned; a snail and a couple of shrimp might regularly be satisfactory.
2016-09-05 20:02:02 · answer #3 · answered by alleyne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to petsmart they sell stuff to put in there. I started buying snails and checked before hand just in case this happens to me. I like the snails but I don't want 100's.
2007-06-18 04:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snails reproduce on their own and when they do...its alot...if you dont want that many ...id clean the whole tank out to get any babies you dont see...and fill it back up with one snail and see how that goes...maybe your snail was in crazy reproducing stage and you just got caught up in it hahahaha...try another ...
2007-06-18 04:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by Hen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catch them by hand crush them, free fish food. Or get a loach they love them
2007-06-18 05:02:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋