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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #241
> From: Stephen.Pushak at saudan_HAC.COM
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 17:34:02 PST
> Subject: Re: snails
> Buyer Beware!
>
> One method to controlling snail population without eradication is
> to keep your water very soft. This makes the snail shells weak
> and they don't get too big or reproduce as much.
Now I know why my snails don't grow too large!!!The carbonate
hardness in my tank is ussually hovering around 4 on German scale.
I guess hardness by itself doesn't stop them from reproducing though.
There is just a ton of those suckers around and if I can't see them I
guess I'll just let them be. Let the mother(aquarium) nature take
care of them.
> Another method
> is to keep the fish a little hungry so there's less snail food.
> I've stopped worrying about them. They only chew on leaves which
> are already rotting. They eat soft algaes.
>
> Steve
> Karen Randall
> Aquatic Gardeners Assoc.
> Boston, MA
> Subject: Snails and Copper
>
> > Well Frank, to get rid of the snails, you can either:
> >
> > 1. Use chemical means. A copper based snail killer (availab
> > aquarium products) will do the job fine.
>
> Be careful with copper in a planted tank! There are a number of
> plant species that are very sensitive to high copper levels. You
> may never be able to grow these plants again in a tank that has
> been treated with copper. Take it from one who knows from
> experience, although my copper comes from tap water, not from
> "snail cures" :-(
I have read that copper is really dangerous when water has very
little calcium(or other) hardens in it. So I wouldn't try it. Also I
don't like introducing dangerous chemicals into my tank. But thanks
for the warning. :-)
Franc Gorenc Kitchener, Canada
franc at golden_net
http://www.golden.net/~franc