Re: [Killietalk] kill Malaysian Trumpet Snails

["David Lains" <davidlains at gmail_com>]

Hi Bob

They are all over the springs and streams at Ash meadows, they are
beautiful.  It's likely what you saw in Florida too.  They get huge in the
cooler water systems.

Best fishes
David

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces+davidlains=gmail_com at aka.org
[mailto:killietalk-bounces+davidlains=gmail_com at aka.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Goldstein
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:24 PM
To: killifish discussion list
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] kill Malaysian Trumpet Snails

I must be missing something. What is it about these snails that nobody 
likes? If they multiply, it means they are eating organics such as rotting 
food or vegetation. So what's the problem? I've never found them in mops 
like pond snails. I recall collecting a similar looking snail in the sand of

beautiful clear sand-bottomed forest streams in the Florida panhandle and 
thinking they were better looking than lots of hobby snails. - Bob G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Cooper" <barry_cooper at mac.com>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] kill Malaysian Trumpet Snails


> Sue & Charles Harrison wrote:
>> Killing MLTS is easier if you use Flubendazole on
>> them. It takes about 5 days to wipe them out of a
>> normal tank but it does kill them. The snails
>> with the jelly coated egg bundles require several
>> treatment to eliminate. The med doesn't penetrate
>> the mass very well.
>>
>> Charles H
>>
>>
>>
>>> George's 10:1 covers well if you buy the cheaper stuff (3%?). You can
>>> still get Fish TB from a bleach-cleaned tank, tho.
>>>
>>> A word of caution. None of the above will kill Malaysian Trumpet Snails,
>>> for they just slam the trapdoor shut and will survive weeks of
>>> treatment. Any bad bugs they are carrying will appear in the cleaned
>>> tank, eventually. Beside being voracious egg predators, they should be
>>> kept out of killifish tanks if only for this reason alone. Only boiling
>>> or strong acids will kill them.
>>>
>>> Wright
>>>
>>> George & Melanie wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I usually use about a 10 part water to 1 part bleach ratio. Never too
>>>>
>>>  particualr with the ratio. I just m
>>>
> I agree with Charles that flubendazole will kill the allegedly
> unkillable Malaysian trumpet snails. I used it to clear a badly infested
> 55 gal tank.
>
> Barry
>
> -- 
> Barry J. Cooper
> Sweet Home, OR 97386
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