how do i get rid of snails in my freshwater aquarium? SERIOUS ...
You can buy a snail eating fish, such as a clown loach (or any other kind of loaches) but I’ve noticed the don’t go after the ramshorn snails. There are also chemicals you can buy, such as Had-A-Snail, that kill the snails. The reason these snails multiply fast is because one snail has both male, and female parts. The store I work at also used our big goldfish to eat snails, but while this works really well, I don’t recommend it for a tropical tank, just because goldfish and tropicals need completely different environments and get sick otherwise. It means you don’t need to go adding anything to the the tank such as "snail eating" fish (they won’t touch Trumpets) nor chemicals (which will leave your tank littered with dead bodies). The pick and squish method is best teamed with the vege trap method – pop in some cucumber or lettuce at night, pick it out in the morning covered with snails. Since your tank is so big, you need to get an snail eating fish. DSo snail eating fish I reccomend is the nice little zebra loach, they only grow to be about 3", but they need to stay in schools. Coppersafe, a very reliable medication for getting rid of Ich, also (as a happy side effect) kills snails. The downside for both of these is that they kill ALL invertebrates, so if you have snails you WANT to keep, or crabs, or any other invertebrates, this isn’t the best choice for you. There got to be so many snails that they were crawling out of the tank and into the room. The squished snails will make supplemental fish food. For larger snails, pick them out and dispose of them in the bin. Snails are just -hard- to kill. Our tank was really small – 20 gallons – and we only had guppies which are cheap, reproduce quickly and are fairly easy to raise in "new-tank" water, so it was more of a hassle than an expense for us. I hope you find something that will get rid of... Thus it can lay eggs without any other snails. com/Snails/pond-snail1. The way I ridded my tank of a Ramshorn invasion was the pick and squish method. The Trumpets in particular are excellent burrowers, while they will all infiltrate the substrate, if you have a Trumpet invasion you will need to concentrate more on the substrate than the others. Another is the clown pleco, but be warned they get pretty big, and need a bigger tank then you have now. Although that method won’t work so well if you have a Pleco or other veg-munching fish.
5.11 The rapid growth of invasive water hyacinths has taken a serious toll on Kenya's Lake Victoria, creating inhospitable conditions for the fish local people depend on, while sheltering other unwelcome guests: disease-carrying snails and deadly
