AW: Getting rid of MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snails)

["Erik Pfingstner" <erikpfingstner at freenet_de>]

If it is abig tank with much gravel, you ought to take a metallic drum and
have that one over an outdoor woodfire for boiling.
Erik

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> Von: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]Im
> Auftrag von Barry Cooper
> Gesendet: Montag, 6. Januar 2003 22:34
> An: killietalk at aka_org
> Betreff: Re: Getting rid of MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snails)
>
>
> The original post asked how to get them out of gravel. I've never
> had them,
> but if the tank is stripped down, I would try boiling the gravel. I doubt
> they could survive that. You would have to make sure, as Wright pointed
> out, that you REALLY had got them out of the tank too, before
> restocking it.
>
> Barry
>
> At 04:17 PM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I've got some "infested" gravel that's spending the winter outside in a
> >bucket in an effort to kill the little monsters. I'll let you know in the
> >spring if anything survives.
> >
> >Catherine
> >in snowy (but not like upstate NY) Ohio
> >
> > > I removed all the gravel (and most of the MT snails) from a
> tank and was
> > > going to just dump the gravel, when it occured to me that
> they might be
> > > susceptible to freezing. Has anyone ever tried freezing gravel (easily
> > > done here this time of year) to kill the snails ? I
> understand that people
> > > have tried bleach, but the snails remain in their shells,
> impervious to
> > > the bleach. Cold however, would penetrate the shells quite
> easily. If they
> > > can survive freezing, then they are obviously a real danger
> if released
> > > accidentally, if not, then freezing would be an effective
> sterilant for
> > > MTS.
> >
> >
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> Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences,
> Cornell University
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