Re: Copper as snail killer

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Re: Copper as snail killer
• From: Jonathan_Kirschner at Energetics_com (Jonathan Kirschner)
• Date: 11 Dec 1996 17:22:36 GMT

>Since copper is such a good snail eradicator <snip>

I'm not so sure it is.  I seem to have raised a strain of mutants in my
10 gallon molly tank (unplanted) that aren't terribly bothered by it...
refugees from the great snail war of last year.

>I was wondering whether anyone has experimented using diluted
>solutions of say CopperSafe as a plant dip, or even intoduced low
>levels of copper directly into the aquarium.

You're probably still much better off using the ol'  1:19 bleach dip.  I
think some plants might be sensitive to high levels of Cu in the
water (some fish too?)

Jonathan

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