Re: [APD] Damn snails

[Stuart Halliday <stuart at mytriops_com>]

I believe Harry Martin wrote this email section below:
> Stuart Halliday wrote:
>   
>> Add a snail trap remover?
>> This works. But you need to remove it every day.
>> http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/JBL_Snail_Trap_Review
>>     
>
> That looks like a useful gadget.
>
> For a while, I was using a long narrow sheet of glass with dried flake 
> fish food smeared on the surface of both sides.
>
> The snails were attracted to it and you just pulled the glass out and 
> wash off the snails.
>
> Again, this works until you run out of snails or you get tired of 
> playing "trap the snails". After a while, they slowly gain the upper hand.
>
>   
Here is my snail trap in use.
It needed a few holes drilled in it so it sinks quicker and I used waxed 
thread with a piece of plant weight so it sinks better and I can put it 
in and out without getting my arm wet. The plastic sinks but its a touch 
too buoyant.
If I had designed it I would have also made the base black. Snails seem 
to like dark surfaces.

http://mytriops.com/mypics/snailtrap_in_use1.jpg
After 1 hour.

http://mytriops.com/mypics/snailtrap_in_use2.jpg
After 6 hours - Zillions of MTS!

-- 
Stuart Halliday
http://mytriops.com/
200 Million years in the making...

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