Pest snails in the Aquarium- the good, the bad, and the ugly
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Learn how to make a DIY snail trap, identify many different pest snail species like bladder, pond, MTS (malaysian trumpet), ramshorn, and mini-ramshorns as well as strategies for reducing or removing them from your tank.
I added a pea puffer to my tank and it ANNIHILATED all of my pest snails. just empty shells everywhere. It was a savage!
Rank1 lmaooo
I was about to say. If you have pest snails, just get a pea puffer. Most effective way to eradicate snails lol. I actually recommend starting a colony of pest snails first before adding puffers, especially those snails that are prolific breeders. Your puffer will always have food then.
Lol
Cryssa Rose hey! Can you use bladder snails for a continuous cycle like what you do?
Wow..
Great video.
I had a problem with buying the wrong plants (ludwigia repens) for my lighting and ended up with lots of diatoms and dead leaves.
Combine that with apparently overfeeding fussy fish (some prefer flakes over NLS pellets) and now I'm constantly removing 10 or more bladder snails a day from my 20g high tank.
I picked up one of those ISTA snail traps and am planning on getting some amano shrimp to assist with getting the bottom cleaned up.
My nerite snails are doing a good job on the glass.
Vacuuming and 50% water change each week.
Really hoping that the trap and shrimp will do the trick.
Hunting bladder snails with a turkey baster is a good time killer though ...
Terrific info and tips! Gonna make a trap now! Also, you’re super easy on the eyes.
Keep in mind.
The amount of ponds you find (natural little ponds) are full of snails and healthy plants .. its all about a balance.
I dont think any snails are pest unless they hurting fish with parasites.
as for plants, they usual only eat dead leaves.
Definitely
Well yes, but also remember there is also an almost endless supply of decaying plant litter on the bottom of ponds at all times for them to eat too
Ramshorns have eaten healthy plants in my tank. Trumpet snails never eat healthy plants only dead ones. Trumpet snails are pretty much impossible to get rid of once you have them.
Thanks for the information about snails
I just got rid of 11 bladder snails in my 12 gallon. I have 2 rabbit snails that I love. I had a problem with the bladder snails eating a completely healthy plant! It has little holes and I had been yanking the baby bladder snails off of it! They are a pain!
Do all snails crawl out of tank? I got some blabber snail for free wondering if its like mystery or nerites that will crawl out or will it stay in the water
Hi Rachel, again thanks for the video. I've just had peppermint bristlenose catfish lay eggs in a tank in which I have pest snails. On asking for advice as I've not had fish lay before I was told snails eat fish eggs. What is your experience with this?
Which species eat live plants & which dont?
Hi I noticed in this video that on the glass at front you had white looking worms I have them in my tank and don't know what they are my tank is very clean I have pea gravel and live plants
Do you sell snails need a dozen small ones ?
what do you think of the mystery snail?
I'm a big fan
could you keep them as pets ?
I just found a snail in my tank and cannot tell if it is pond or bladder snail... I spent all day trying to figure it out.
If its antennae are thread like it's a bladder. If they are triangles and iridescent it's a true pond snail
@@RachelOLeary Ok. Thank you. I'll observe his antenas. (I just found another one.)
Looks like I have 1 of each
I just caught these "pest" snails and added them to my betta tank
I put all my pest snails In 1 gallon fish bowl
I just put a S**tload of snails in the Fishbowl I use for holding my Guppies whilst I'm cleaning their 20 gallon tank.,Snail Ball the size of a lemon!
I had thousands of snails in my 75 gallon. They were out of control. I added 6 assassin snails and in no time they annihilated my snail problem.
wantsome480 how o.O
Did this leave thousands of empty snail shells?
Rob Lucas yep
That’s actually pretty cool
@@lillian.catherine what do they eat after the snails are depleted?
I actually embrace the "pest" snails. I will purposely introduce them to a tank because I think they are beautiful and very interesting to watch.
Fishy Business I was actually thinking the same, they are beautiful.
You look like a girl use to work with at tj maxx. Is your name Jamie? lmao anyway I'll try the bottle thing
Yep same, I don't even need to clean my tank now the snails keep it so clean and free of algae
I like pest snails too, though I will cull them on occasion if the population size threatens to get out of hand.
they are fast to multiply and you won't like it for sure.
At one time in my fish life, I had snails that actually caught guppies to eat. NO JOKE. They would float and if one could attach to an eating or sick guppy, the others would pile on and eat it. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just have a mystery snail. Love him/it.
Free snails are free snails haha I like them in all tanks eat extra food in all my colony tanks
Yeah haha i bought a plant whit apparently a snail 🤷🏻♀️ and now idk if i will have babies
@@frederiqueconstant8819 any luck?
snails are friends :x
Not food
lol u 2
Shauna Louise that’s exactly what I thought when I read this comment
and food
Yes
I've got bladder snails in my setup, but they don't seem to be hurting my plants at all. (as a matter of fact they really helped knock down my hair algae problem)
I added mine on purpose and they have not touched my plants but clean up a lot of uneated food in my fry tank.
I added mine on purpose; delicate plants and hardy alike are untroubled by them. Only sick and algae-covered plants get snail'd. Love em!
I have one (accidently) and i have hair algae , he ate a bit of my plant that had a brown spot , but now i hope "they all" will eat
I once havent fed my 2 angelfishes for a couple days on purpose so they turn to eating bladder snails and snail eggs. Now they happily pluck snails keeping a balance in my aquarium. Angelfishes are curious eaters so definitely introduce those snails to them 😄.
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Rachel O'leary, get flying foxes, they gobble snails like a beast
Don't they get a little mean tho?
Rachel you should really do a video about the good and really sweet looking snails for the aquarium, like rabbit snails, Brotia Pagodula, different nerites, etc.. should be an awesome video... keep it going.
Love the vids you're making
Dani I love my little horned nerite it's nice and smaller than the bigger nerite. I hope I can get more horned nerites. I also like the Japanese helmet looking nerite it's interesting. I miss my lovely pair of mini rabbit snails. I should have known better when I added the assassin snail to take care of the trumpet problem. I want my mini rabbit snails. ive seen some Brotia at MLF store but I I think they're too big for my 10 gallon. I wanna try to keep things small
Still one of my favorite videos on your channel; I re-watch it every few months. This video has helped me help so many of my own customers, in troubleshooting their tanks.
You are an amazing person and a priceless resource to our hobby.
Thank you.
For being you, for doing what you do, and sharing your love for the hobby, and inspiring me and others like me, every day.
Happy New Year~
I know they are annoying to some hobbyist, but i really do enjoy watching them slowing nom nom on algae with their cute mouths.
The comment section is full of cringe. The bladder snails have reproduced in my EMPTY tank for months and there's been no feeding at all. The only thing they can be relying on at this point is algae growth, and they're obviously only skimming over that enough to get enough to grow and reproduce, repeat process for each snail. They don't even take the algae completely off of anything they happen to crawl over, to the point there is no visual evidence they did it at all. I have a total of three small live plants in the last few weeks they've eaten the rotten leaves off of, and then didn't complete that job at all, actually leaving most of the rot to move on and....repopulate.
And you guys can "embrace" these snails all you want to. I actually like trumpets myself. But PLEASE WARN your potential victims of the fact you grew your plants in a tank with these snails if you sell them or take them to the pet store. Mine came in on plants and I was not warned and needless to say, wasn't impressed by the seller at all afterwards.
Hal, aren't you a homicidal robot? I didn't know robots kept pets. Or plants... Please don't hurt me...
🎶Daisy, 🎵Daisy, give your answer, do... 🎶
@@ZomBeeNature LOL that song is in my head now! 🙉🙉🙉
I love snails, they eat the extra food and help keep smaller tanks clean and less likely to crash. I think they're cute too. Also if you're going to eradicate your snails, remember to feed less food because there won't be snails left to eat it all and it will rot and produce ammonia. (Yes that's why you had so many snails, you were overfeeding.)
Padric Combest I added the trumpets to stir the sand in my tank and eat up the leftovers. Problem is they're too prolific
Just collect them on the glass after you turn off the lights. Case solved. :)
Teagan Combest I dont know why anyone would kill a snail 😭
they tried to eat my expensive plants...then i beat them to death with hammer :D
i would never harm a snail
The water in my area is so soft that bladder snails do not manage to reproduce and they die pretty quickly. This happened with bladder snails that came along with some plants I ordered. While it does drastically limit the amount of species of fish I can keep. It also makes snail pest control very easy :D
Kuhli loach's have done quite well in my community for killing off bladder snails. They love the eggs. Kuhli's have become my favorite bottom feeder. In groups of 20 plus there great for string up that top layer. Ill agree, i dont consider snails to be pests at all. I find them essential in my dirted tanks. As you say, its an indicator.
weird my Kuhli never touch snails... at least mts
Andrew Ingalls Watson do you know if kuhli loaches would attack horned nerites?
My Khulis never touched any snails, however my clown loaches had a feast with the infestation of snails I had in my tank.
Khulis wont harm the larger snails. What they do is eliminate all the eggs and very small snails before their shells harden. They are only a tool to manage pest snails in a manner thats beneficial to your system. Nor will you see them do this as they hunt when its totally dark. Its what they do in nature. So all you have to do is remove the larger ones and your problem is solved. Water bottle trap is still the easiest way to catch adults. Clown loaches kill every snail, inducing those you want to keep.
+Andrew Ingalls Watson never wanted to keep snails, they're a pest to me and they eat plants, destroyed my amazon swords so that's when I got clowns to rid them. Never had a snail problem since.
I just found a ram's horn snail in my aquarium yesterday :D
I have one ramshorn, and he does a great job! I got him for free, and he is a blue leopard and I am pretty happy with how well he does :D
nice mine are pink
Mine’s yellow
I walked in to my local fish store, and saw a tank they had that was infested with Malaysian trumpet snails, but it just so happened that I had spent weeks looking online for some for sale with no luck. You should’ve seen the look on the owners face when I told him that I actually wanted them on purpose. 😂 I got a small number for free, and I’ve had them for years along with some blue leopard rams horn with only 1 outbreak. 10/10 would do it again
I had Malaysian trumpet snails sneak into an aquarium years ago, had several aquariums since, and the offspring of those original few are still going today... Even after having no tanks for a long time, they survived in a bucket of gravel in the garage for a very long time.
Now I have a large turtle and American cichlid set up, my musk turtle spends his days digging for snails. The snails are also a huge help on breaking down solids. Have also put a few in my African tank.
The thing is with these snails, you don't even know they're there, until you clean your canister and start picking them out.
I've tried a variety of foods to 'attract' the snails to the traps. The best I found was banana skin, the browner, the better. Will cloud up your water for a few days, but works the best.
ty! I just found first pest snail think it's a bladder snail, I used a aquarium only turkey baster to suck it up.... wish me luck I don't get invaded!
I should’ve done that... now I have baby snails appearing 😑 I’m plucking them out as I see them. I should probably go take out the mother 😳 I do love her, but when she’s having babies, I don’t anymore lol.
I see this vlog is nearly 3 years old BUT what GREAT, lasting info!! Thank you so, SO much. You went well beyond every other vlog I have watched and I feel more secure in my own knowledge now for what I am dealing with. One thing I didn't catch is, how long to decrease feeding to get rid of the trumpet snails? Boy, did I mess up putting in four little snails, which are now enjoying the sand as a nursery in the hundreds! Word to the unwise....do your research FIRST! :0)~
Until you have the numbers where you want them to be
I love your channel. Very informative and direct to the point.
is kevin o'leary your father?ironic enough that he's in shark tank
I like snails, the more the better.
I have had Cichlids for a long time, which meant I could never have snails. Now I have another tank (10 gallons) with plants, shrimp, and snails and I like the snails just as much as I thought I would. I bought some Ramshorn Snails and they are bigger than I thought; they lay eggs but they don't seem to hatch. I bought a plant and got three teeny tiny itty bitty Malaysian Trumpet Snails, and I would like to have a lot more and bigger ones. I bought some Mystery Snails and those are very interesting to watch eat, and the Gold ones are very outgoing, and one of them laid some eggs last night. 🎉 I also have two Spixi Snails, which are much smaller and slower and not outgoing at all, and one laid a few eggs, maybe 20, on a plant and I have spent weeks waiting for them to hatch, but nothing so far. They might be eating the Ramshorn snail eggs, I don't know. And I have some pond snails that I caught myself and they lay eggs on everything and they hatch. I even have a golden-shelled one, which I hope will have more. If I could find other kinds of snails, then I would get them too.
I added a golden dojo loach to my tank and he deals with most of the babies and small snails. But he leaves enough of the big ones that the snails are there but not out of control
Do you think Tinfoil Barbs and Plecos will eat Malaysian trumpet snails?
WesleyAPEX clown loach will
Thanks for the content. Really appreciate it. I had a few snails in my 25g aquarium and wanted to get rid of them. After seeing this video I decided to keep them and cut back on feeding and doing some more maintenance on my tanks more frequently.
Thanks again
I definitely need a little clean up crew in my 5 gallon planted tank. I think I am going to add MTS and ramshorn to it. I am the worst at overfeeding. I only have a betta in there at the moment, so when I feed frozen foods there tends to be more than I like leftover, or it hides in the nooks and crannies of my eco complete substrate. I have noticed some detritus worms (which tells me there is too much leftover food). In the future I may add a Nerite variety (but a little unsure at the moment). I think I may add a few other fish as well to help eat the food (something small that goes well with a betta).
Thanks Rachel. That was really helpful. Got a few bladder snails when I added plants to my newly cycled tank. I left them as I figured they would help clear up some algae. They have done a good job, but have increased in number very quickly. So some of them have got to go. Was thinking of adding a pea puffer, but I don't think it will be a good fit for my community tank in the long run. The plants seem healthy, so going try increasing my maintenance, and cutting back on my feeding ( have been away from the hobby for 30+yrs, so it will take me a minute to figure that out. )
My Assassin Snails have done nothing in my tank. I had 1 bladder snail and I recently found a Nerite snail in my tank. Guess my Assassin snails are just friendly haha.
how much they go after pest snails depends as well on what you feed. For instance if you feed a lot of live or frozen foods, they will also readily eat those.
It was disgusting. They were eating leftovers, breeding, and cannibalizing on each other as well. And they were pooping endless. I had to destroy everything in the planted aquarium. Now i don't do anymore aquariums, just koi and goldfish ponds.
Breeding and cannibalizing each other lol that sounds hilarious. Snails are something else...
I don't understand the bias against snails. They are a good cleanup crew. I have some pink, translucent rams horn snails that I really like.
yeah! I love ramshorn snails
Mine just got busy, I'm excited about babies lol
I found a bladder snail and she apparently reproduced. I’m currently picking out any that I see and I’m so stressed about overpopulation 😭
I manually remove pest snails, squish them and feed to my glow lights, I think they really enjoy them and it’s an easy free treat :)
awesome channel, Rachel! I am sure that you will feel at home here in Asia where the aquarium hobby is ridiculously popular.
I don't mind having MTS and Ramshorn snails in my tank but I absolutely dislike Pond snails.
Which owns are pond snails?
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Having a problem with ramshorn snails. The population is huge so I cut back on feeding and they started eating my plants, particularly my Rosaefolia. The leaves look bright and healthy, but they got tiny holes in them from the snails. My guess is a snail would rather eat a healthy plant than starve to death, which makes sense.
Maybe the key was to never let the population get that big?
Hi Rachel, I really enjoyed this video. I have the bladder and the rams horn snails and I agree with you. They are part of the natural tank but increase happens when something is out of wack! LOL overfeeding, more water changes, and sometimes ,I have plant decay or miss a dead fish. Yep, I hand pick the bladder snails out and keep the rams horns usually. some of mine have a shiny bronze shell. pretty I think
I've heard they eat fish eggs, can you confirm that?
add mini puffer fish, they will eat all the snail in your aquarium effectively.
Thanks for the info i just started the hobby recently and found this to be very informative.
glad to hear it!
This was excellent! Thank you!! I had my community tank controlled with 1 mystery and a few nerites. Bought some plants at the aquarium and noticed 24 hours later TONS of what looked like baby snails on the log the java was on so I immediately took it out and returned to store. Needless to say, I suddenly started finding what I now know to be ramshorn and bladder snails everywhere. My tank looks amazing but I do have plants that are suddenly not doing well so this was great info for me to take some steps. Love snails but of course don’t need hundreds and hundreds of them. So again thanks for the info!!
You sound so different. From your appearance , helpfull info
I don't know what kind of terminator snails I had, but snail traps had too large a gap for them to get trapped, so it only really was a food source for them. They ate ALL my plants, and when I put assassin snails in, one day I woke up to hollowed out assassin snail shells, and half a dozen of those pests in and around each shell. The largest of them were not even two tenths of an inch, while the typical size was one tenth of an inch.
Great video! I was wondering though, as a keeper of many snail eating loach species, is there a species of ornamental snail that could safely be kept with them? I was researching the larger sulawesi rabbit snails, but I didn't see much info pertaining to their compatibility.
I like those 'mini' ramshorns myself and I thank you so much for the species name! I've been trying to find it for ages. Never seen one larger than about 1/4". They're unobtrusive and do no harm I can see. Most of the one I have are red with clear shells and given that I keep mostly very minute fish species, they're an appropriate size, especially in a nano tank :-).
Standard ramshorns are very useful, I think. I read a neat article and later heard a lecture on using them with Cory cat eggs as clean up crew in place of using antifungals like Meth blue. They don't eat healthy eggs but do eat any fungus that may appear. Natural fungus control, how can you not love that?
Btw, I find there are more than two MTS type snails. I have at least 3 types so far. One of them grows rather large, some to more than 1.5 inches long with a foot close to a half inch in diameter. At first I thought they were rabbit snails but they aren't, they're MTS or something very closely related. Their shells are a dull olive colour without stripes but do have dots on them. Another type is a rich dark mahogany brown with a deeply ridged shell; greatly resembles a baby Orange Poso rabbit snail but it only grows to roughly 3/4" in length. They're very dark in the body too and rather attractive really; plus, they don't show up on a dark substrate the way the most common MTS does, especially the one with the light beige shell and rusty stripe marks.
The Limnea species of snail that you mention, does it have a light grey-colour body? I see snails like that now and then but they have appeared to be major plant nibblers and thus I have not encouraged them. The ones I see have a pale grey body, pale grey shell and short, fat tentacles. They grow a lot larger than the bladder snail does, certainly, but I've never allowed one to grow to full size. They are slower to reproduce, for sure.
just brought 10 snails and added then came across this ..... oh joy .... wondering if ive made a mistake .
sod it ... got 10 new friends and to be honest looking forward to having loads more
How are your snails now? I like snails, I wish I had more.
thanks you for sharing your wisdom with us. So glad I found your channel. Sara
Lol, the “snail trap” is a miniature version on how I make an inexpensive bait trap for bass fishing!
******DON'T USE THE BOTTLE TRAP IN A TANK WITH A BETTA******
I lost my pal this way.
Please either edit the part about the bottle being verticle by putting in earlier or please put a warning (graphics) right by your tutorial on how to make the trap?
I hope nobody else lost their pal this way. He was a stunning pearl delta tail. Just gorgeous. It was a small opening, he got through.
I'm heartbroken.
Edit: I did watch the video, but when it sounded like she was wrapping up at the end, I got up and made my trap. Too bad, because I learned about the snails but didn't catch that tiny snippet.
YESSS I LOST MY BETTA SAME WAY. ;(
How did you lose him. I dont get it he could have gotten out the same way he went in, right?
Deborah Pickert noo they cant get out
@@samidaliphoto thank you
Thank you so much for this video. A huge help and very informative for a new aquarist.
I have a lot of snails in my sump tank (150 gal sump). I’d like to add a predator fish to eat them but the sump tank is very active (about 3000 gallons per hour in/out)
Any suggestions?
Very informative video. I kinda like the snails and the trumpets are my favorites out of the ones that I've picked up from purchasing plants from the LFS. I've been lucky and haven't had them go crazy in either of my tanks. I guess it's been luck or routine maintenance
That's a sign you're taking good care of your tanks.
Impressive knowledge about all things aquatic..thanks
Please be nice to the snails. In turn, when they become the ultimate race, they will be nice to you.
3 clown loaches do a really great job of cleaning my 39 gallon of snails.
I have a small planted 5 gallon though that is a bit overrun, bottle trap is too big so every week I grab the planting tweezers and start pulling them. Seems to work ok.
Could you do a quick vid on your siphons?
I had a problem with the Malaysian trumpets. I had a very heavily planted Aquarium and purchase my plants from a trusted source. However at a local fish store picking up ghost shrimp for food I impulsively bought a beautiful mother plant Amazon sword. Wipe down the leaves put it in there started growing and within a week hundreds and hundreds of tiny lice sized snails everywhere the tank again heavily planted could only gravel vacuum certain areas of the aquarium they quickly overtook that tank then via my water change tube / - aquarium siphon they transferred to all seven of my aquariums. The 55 within a few months they date between the glass and silicone so badly to certain algae grows underneath the Silicon that tank leaked my 125 they did the same the leak was below the gravel line and below the dirt because all of my tanks are dirt and tanks anyway I'm down to just a 55 gallon tank over ran by snails so I recently uploaded a video of my final solution for that I drain the aquarium to just above the gravel line an added 4 large bottles of a hydrogen peroxide and it killed every snail in the aquarium and I'm now rebuilding the aquarium to get it heavily planted like my old tanks were. The peroxide was my last and only hope and it worked beautifully
I thought snails were good for your tank. Wow! I have many things to learn. If snails are bad why do stores sell them?
I don't think snails are bad for your tank, and I don't think Rachel said they were. She even mentioned a couple of her favourites! Some people think they are, of course, but not everyone. That's why stores sell them! It's only if you let the numbers get out of control - usually through overfeeding - that it really becomes a problem.
"Really the best 'barometer' for tank health" is mentioned near end of video as far as pond snails go...
Please explain how
I was under assumption that barometer was a tool used for the atmosphere, as opposed to in the water. What am i not getting? Please help lol
This is a great video chicky! When I was new to this hobby I did get lots of snails because I was ridiculously over feeding my tank I learned tons of lessons in the planted tank hobby. What I have learned is all of these snails are a potential threat but if you can not go crazy feeding your fish they all can be beneficial I have three or more species of thes guys and they are kept in check by my every three day feeding regimen. In the past I used to throw in a loach to bring them down in population but now I just do not feed the tank as much and the use of shrimps as cleaners usually out eat these snails so the tanks don't get crazy with them anymore. I have apple snails, trumpets, rams horns the rams get big fast but if you slow the feeding they will stall or slow right down. I love fish tanks and the beauty they bring to your home snails are helpers for me they keep the algae down and my glass clean as crystal Balance with these creatures is key.
If you guys have finer substrate or sand, get yourself some _clea helenas_ (assassin snails/bumble bee snail/... ). They hunt and eat your pest snails and like to burrow...
Honestly: best buy ever, I love my clea helenas to death, they are so pretty and great to watch.
People say they hunt shrimp, never ever seen my clea helenas go for a shrimp ever.
I had my bad experience with trumpet snails many years ago. They spiked. I looked in the tank one evening and my 40 gal was simply peppered with the b##tards. That was back in 2011. I came up with a most efficient remedy that will wipe them out completely with no returns. This method doesnt involve other animals to eat them, chemicals or creative traps. This is what you do. 1. REMOVE ALL YOUR FISH FROM YOUR TANK. 2. USING A PYTHON OR SIMILAR TAP DRIVEN SYPHON HOSE, DRAIN YOUR TANK 100 %. 3. NOW REVERSE FLOW ON THE HOSE AND CRANK UP HEAT USING SCALDING HOT WATER. 4. USING THE EDGE OR LIP OF THE SYPHON HOSE RUN THE WATER UNDER THE FRAME OR LIP OF THE TOP SUPPORT OF YOUR TANK ,TAKING CARE TO RUN HOT WATER ALL ALONG THE HIGHEST REACHES OF THE GLASS. LET THE SCALDING WATER SIMPLY TRICKLE DOWN INTO THE FLOOR AND GRAVEL OF YOUR TANK. THE IDEA IS TO MAKE SURE THE HEAT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH EVERY INCH OF YOUR AQUARIUM WHICH LEADS US TO THE NEXT STEP. 5. DISESEMBLE YOUR FILTER AND ITS COMPONENTS PLACING THEM IN A LARGE BUCKET, A SINK OR EVEN IN THE TANK YOUR TREATING IF THERE IS STILL ROOM ENOUGH. POUND IT WITH THE SCALDING WATER SUBMERGING IT WHEREVER POSSIBLE TO ENSURE THE HEAT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH ITS ENTIRE SURFACE. 6. NOW YOU HAVE COMPLETELY KILLED ALL THE SNAILS. NOW THEY ARE SITTING IN THE GRAVEL BEGINNING TO BREAK DOWN. NOW YOU MUST CONSIDER YOUR OPTIONS. FIRST I WILL OFFER THE SIMPLE ANSWER THEN I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I CHOSE TO DO. BOTH WILL WORK. SIMPLY REMOVE THE GRAVEL FOR DISSPOSAL OR LET IT SIT IN A RESERVOIR OF ITS OWN PERIODICALLY CHANGING OUT THE WATER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS UNTILL THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE DEAD SNAILS IS COMPLETE. AT THIS POINT YOUR FISH ARE BACK IN A GRAVELESS SNAILESS TANK. HERE IS WHAT I DID. REFIL THE TANK LEAVING THE GRAVEL AND SNAILS IN. BRING FISH BACK IN THE AQUARIUM IN BAGS TO ACLIMATE THEM TO TEMP . 7. NOW YOUR FISH ARE BACK TO NORMAL RELEASED INTO THE TANK BUT YOU KNOW BELOW THEM IN THE GRAVEL LURKS A TOXIC TIME BOMB. THE TRICK IS WATER CHANGES. (REMINDER ) USE THIS METHOD ON A WEEKEND OR WHEN YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF DAYS TO CONCENTRATE YOUR ENERGY AND ATTENTION TO THIS PROBLEM. AFTER 3 OR 4 80 TO 90 PERCENT WATER CHANGES OVER THE NEXT 48 HRS YOUR FISH WILL BE FINE AND YOUR TANK WILL BE OR REMAIN SNAIL FREE UNTIL G-D FORBID THERE IS ANOTHER INSTANCE WHERE THESE BUGGERS ARE REINTRODUCED INTO YOUR TANK AGAIN. THE SHELLS WILL REMAIN BUT NO BIG DEAL. (AFTERNOTE) THIS TECHNIQUE WORKS LIKE A CHARM BUT THERE ARE SOME IMPORTANT FACTORS TO CONSIDER. THIS TECHNIQUE IS NOT DESIGNED WITH THE PROSPECT OF PRESEVING PLANTS IN MIND. YOU WOULD HAVE TO START PLANTS AGAIN FROM A HOPEFULLY SNAIL FREE SAMPLE. PERHAPS YOU COULD TREAT THE PLANTS SEPARATELY WITH COPPER OR WHATEVER IN ANOTHER RESERVOIR OR TANK BEFORE PUTTING THEM BACK IN. BE SURE TO HAVE A GOOD WATER TREATMENT PRODUCT ON HAND WHILE DOING YOUR WATER CHANGES. WHO WOULDNT RECOMMEND (SEACHEM SAFE) ? OUTSIDE OF TRYING TO SAVE ONES PLANTS I SIMPLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FATHOM THE IDEA OF GOING THROUGH SO MUCH TROUBLE TO DEAL WITH THESE PESTS. THIS METHOD WORKS, AND IT PREVENTS RETURNS. HOPE THIS HELPS. IT SURE HELPED ME.
Thank you Rachel, I put 5 rams horn snails in my tank 6 months ago. Within 2 months I had HUNDREDS in the tank. I am still trying to get rid of them. Snail traps didn’t work. I am currently using cucumber in the tank at night which works a bit. I even took all of the stones in the tank out and left it in the sun ( in the Northern Territory australia) for 48 hours but I must have missed one because they are still breeding!
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I see like 100-150 teeny tiny snails with spiral shells. They’re about a cm in size. They are brown. I have all artificial plants. One male healthy crow tale betta, 2 mystery apple snails, and 2 peppered Cory catfish. I have a 10 gallon tank with pebbles. I try to remove them. But I can’t get all of them. I cannot use snail stuff because I have my 2 pet snails on there! (William Wallace jr, and Unnamed.) I got them from a tropical fish store. And never bought anything from a chain store. A Aqua flo filter and a standard heater. I always change my filter once every 2 months. And do a once a month tank clean. Please! I need help!
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I've had never ending issues with Malaysian Trumpet Snails. Yes, yes, I know overfeeding = snails. BUT, I have had MTS sitting in a fishless, mostly empty aquarium for MONTHS and they will still be breeding like effing rabbits. They are like roaches. I wouldn't mind them if they were so out of control but MTS at least seem to be able to reproduce like mad even in the absence of food, clean water, or really anything. :(
I've recently established a cherry shrimp population in my 5ft tank. In no time at all, I have 3 species of snails (I bought a lot of plants for my shrimp) and they are all breeding absolutely in no time at all! I have hundreds, LITERALLY HUNDREDS of baby snails from all 3 snail species. I need to cull these guys before all their offspring start breeding too, there are way too many for me to just take out, squish, ect. And the snail traps would get my shrimp too. My shrimp are breeding so there are limited options for me. I have no idea what I can do about this, I'm ok with some snails, but this is crazy. I can't even take away food, I have baby shrimp and preggers shrimp mumas who need the food. HELP
So a serious question.
How did my shrimp tank get bladder and ramshorn snails in it?
Backstory....
I haven't had ANY of those in my tank for 6 months. I've had trumpet snails and shrimp. I just recently saw bladder and RH snails in there. Literally the only thing different is i got my Indian almond leafs from a different vendor. The leaf was boiled for almost 3 min then put in.
So, how is this happening?? Is it from the leaf? If so how when i boiled it....
Snail populations should rise and fall depending on the food available....If its overpopulated at all times, then you may have to make sure there's not alot of excess food in the aquarium.
Thanks for the info. Our 20 gallon tank was recently infested with ramshorn snails, likely coincided with an on-line purchase of red-leaf floaters that decayed after several weeks. Although the snails had initially appeared to be pests, I believe they solved our pH problem - the pH would always stay up around 7.8, and I would rather it was
Very helpful video. I setup my DIY acrylic tank a couple months ago and now have a pond snail population in it. The tank is planted with various val species, java fern, anubias, and some bolbitus. I usually just let the snails live in the tank. It seems that they help a bunch with newly planted tanks since a lot of the plants that I use seem to die back when first introduced to my aquariums. I've also noticed that the longer the aquarium has been setup the smaller the population of snails I'll have remaining. I wasn't sure which snail I had until I watched you video. Without a doubt they are the pond snail so I now have three different pest snails in three different aquariums lol. Trumpets in my bolivian ram tank. These were actually put there on purpose by me. My favorite pest snail. Bladder snails in my Buenos aires tetra tank although there are very few in there. Now pond snails in the platinum angel tank. Not sure if I'll just leave them be and see if their numbers dwindle over time or start to remove them using your trap method or manually but great to know the options. Thank you for the information. I really appreciate all that you do.
I only keep snails in my aquariums. I am feeding them large chunks of lettuce and watching as the population skyrockets. I have ramshorn in one and bladder and MTS in another. I caught some pond snails from a local lake and i'm gonna get them in after my 3 month quarentine. Though i caught only old ones who laid eggs and died so...... idk if I'm gonna quarentine the eggs. Maybe just the plants.
Your trap with catching them in a bottle is amazing and has really helped my snail problem, rather than killing them is there anywhere you can release them without issue
your local fish store will take them. Mine gives them away for free.
... well you could feed them to other fish and snails that eat them? They wouldn't die in vain.
MTS get huge! I was amazed when I saw one come out of the substrate.
Multiple Tank Syndrome???😂😂😂
I know, you meant Malaysian Trumpet Snails.
+Neon Tetra Aquarist Lol, good one!
I have a HUGE rams horn problem, they’ve been killing all my shrimp (or making them go into hiding). I’ve taken so many out but somehow they keep appearing daily! I really want them gone because I’ve spent so much on shrimp and now my main guys are just a side show. );
I bought live plants for my 25 gallon tank and the plants came with a lot of Bladder snails on it so I decided to put as many of them as I could get and I put it in an old betta bowl I had and didn't put any food in it or anything and so far it's worked and a lot of them have died off
Small snails a quarter of my finger nail size have appeared in my tropical freshwater tank...where did they come from and how do i get rid of them
I have about 15 pawn snails, they are transparent and some are brown, they came out of nowhere I have had my tank for 2 months have I just now discovered them lol
When I had my first fish tank I decided to only use live plants. The next day I seen a tiny baby snails. I and my children were all excited about our free snail. Six weeks later it was snail apocalypse. They were everywhere. Now I check my live plants before I buy them.
Just found pest ramshorns. Was hoping not to have to remove/kill snails because I like them which is why we chose nerites for our community tank. The problem with keeping the tank clear of algae and detritus to control their population is that our otocinclus, dwarf bamboo shrimp, pinocchio shrimp and nerites eat that stuff and I want to make sure they have enough. Oh well, I guess we're stuck with manual removal to keep the hitchhikers in check.
VERY helpful video. So now I think I have bladder snails, but I also have very small black ones, no clue what they are. The little black ones seem to be multiplying the fastest. I really don't want to squish them. Maybe I could move them to spare tank. Do they need a cycled tank?