When ur tank being overrun by snails.....!!!!!!

snails are good for algae, but if there's too many of them...they will turn to plants for food....you will notice when u see ur plants has holes on the leaves.....sometimes like dustin's said due to lack of potassium....which is true...... for my case its not the case....

this is what i did....

1] bought a mini puffer fish (i do not know what species is it but does not grow big)

2] left it inside the tank.......(for 2 weeks)

3] snails population decreased by 50% - 30%

4] remove the puffer from the tank....after ur done & kept it in other non planted tank

that's how i do it....guys if u were in my position what would u do?

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on December 26, 2011 at 5:22pm

i would just buy 2 assassin snail and let them be in my tank which has a bit of MTS.

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Permalink Reply by Rizal on December 26, 2011 at 8:56pm

thanks for the input Hmoobthor

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Permalink Reply by Krystian galazka on January 21, 2012 at 7:25pm

Get a clown loach mine eats them lik crazy and keeps the population of shrimp and snails dwn :)

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Q on January 22, 2012 at 5:39am

I get tons of snails from time to time in my nano. When i do my water change I remove as many as i see and drop them in my other tank for mine clown loach to eat. I don't really get bugged by seeing snails. They don't eat my plants.