RE: [APD] Re: Snails

["Rick Engstrom" <rick703 at mts_net>]

killing them by hand ,maybe with snails in a tank or two but for me that is
all I would be doing. You could never eradicate snails that way although you
may be able to control the bigger one's somewhat. Snail eating fish are the
best bet and next to that I have success rubber banding a piece of zucchini
or cucumber to a rock or similar item. It will very shortly be covered in
snails, remove vegetable, remove snails, feed snails to loaches , toss rock
back in tank.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com
[mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com]On Behalf Of
Greg Turner
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:57 PM
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
Subject: [APD] Re: Snails


I found the best method of snails is to manually kill them.  Every week (or
whenever your hand is in there), just press them against the glass, logs or
rocks.  The shells break easy (not MTS though), and the fish eat up the
remains.  Do this for a few weeks and you'll notice a big decline.  You can
get fish that eat snails but I've found they prefer their regular food over
snails.  Small snails are great; however once they get to bigger their
appetite changes from algae other stuff to plant leafs.

Another method is to use fast growing soft leafed stem plant like Hydro sp.
as a distraction.  This work well for larger snails you want in your
aquarium such as Apple Snails. Apple snails are great because you can
control their reproduction as they must lay eggs outside of the water.

Cheers,

Greg Turner
<a href="http:www.aquabay.ca" title="Canadian Aquarium
Auction">Aquabay.ca</a>


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