Snails Going Away

[Charles]

I am infested with trumpet snails, similar to MTS, but they differ a
bit, they are larger and not strictly nocturnal. They are very
prolific, and in my hard water the shells are very strong. The Green
Terrors ate all the ramshorn snails but can't deal with these. The
baby snails get into everything, they clog the impellers of the
filters to the point that the filters stop, just like packed sand.

One of the Green Terrors is showing hole-in-the-head, so I got some
"Hex-A-Mit" which is supposed to kill Hexamita, and also warns :Use at
own risk in the presence of invertebrates." Well, it seems to be
doing a job on the snails, way better that Snail-Rid ever did.

Too soon to see if it is doing any good for the fish.


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- Charles
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[RedForeman ©®]

MTS snails are livebearers, I learned that from Victor, but they aren't
predated by anything, just because they have a hard thicker shell than most
snails... it's more need for manual extraction... they really aren't a
problem, not like pond snails.. MTS help keep your substrate clean and
really are a help in some areas...

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"Charles" > wrote in message
...
> I am infested with trumpet snails, similar to MTS, but they differ a
> bit, they are larger and not strictly nocturnal. They are very
> prolific, and in my hard water the shells are very strong. The Green
> Terrors ate all the ramshorn snails but can't deal with these. The
> baby snails get into everything, they clog the impellers of the
> filters to the point that the filters stop, just like packed sand.
>
> One of the Green Terrors is showing hole-in-the-head, so I got some
> "Hex-A-Mit" which is supposed to kill Hexamita, and also warns :Use at
> own risk in the presence of invertebrates." Well, it seems to be
> doing a job on the snails, way better that Snail-Rid ever did.
>
> Too soon to see if it is doing any good for the fish.
>
>
> --
>
> - Charles
> -
> -does not play well with others

[Victor Martinez]

RedForeman ©® wrote:
> MTS snails are livebearers, I learned that from Victor, but they aren't
> predated by anything, just because they have a hard thicker shell than most
> snails... it's more need for manual extraction... they really aren't a

That's what I've been told (about the predation), but I'm not sure about
that. I keep putting more and more MTS into the large tank and they just
don't seem to thrive the way they do in the small tank. The large tank
is full of loaches and the small one doesn't have any.

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[RedForeman ©®]

"Victor Martinez" > wrote in message
...
> RedForeman ©® wrote:
> > MTS snails are livebearers, I learned that from Victor, but they aren't
> > predated by anything, just because they have a hard thicker shell than
most
> > snails... it's more need for manual extraction... they really aren't a
>
> That's what I've been told (about the predation), but I'm not sure about
> that. I keep putting more and more MTS into the large tank and they just
> don't seem to thrive the way they do in the small tank. The large tank
> is full of loaches and the small one doesn't have any.


what kind of loaches though? I've got clowns in one and no MTS, Kuhlis in
the other and plent of MTS... the MTS won't thrive in the CL tank, they're
there, just not thriving.... I feed that tank snails....

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RedForeman ©®
still trying to remember to BOTTOM post....

[DonkeyQong]

RedForeman ©® wrote:

> "Victor Martinez" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>RedForeman ©® wrote:
>>
>>>MTS snails are livebearers, I learned that from Victor, but they aren't
>>>predated by anything, just because they have a hard thicker shell than
>
> most
>
>>>snails... it's more need for manual extraction... they really aren't a
>>
>>That's what I've been told (about the predation), but I'm not sure about
>>that. I keep putting more and more MTS into the large tank and they just
>>don't seem to thrive the way they do in the small tank. The large tank
>>is full of loaches and the small one doesn't have any.
>
>
>
> what kind of loaches though? I've got clowns in one and no MTS, Kuhlis in
> the other and plent of MTS... the MTS won't thrive in the CL tank, they're
> there, just not thriving.... I feed that tank snails....
>
> --
> RedForeman ©®
> still trying to remember to BOTTOM post....
>
>
Clown Loaches LOVE snails. I have breeding snails in my overflow filter
that are occasionally blown through the filter into the tank. As soon
as I see a small snail blow in, the clown loaches nail it. The only
snails that survive the attack of the clowns are Apple Snails with the
trapdoor.

[Jim Renschen]

I've got a 120gallon freshwater infested with these MTS and I'm sick of them
sucking up all the calcium in my tank. They are so plentiful that my water
gets depleted of minerals and pH starts to crash (try to keep pH around 6.8
to 7.0 w/CO2). My CO2 system w/ pH controller never kicks on to feed my
plants since the pH is always to low. I've been pulling them out by hand,
but am ready to use some copper treatment the LFS said would kill them-- but
that's always a risk, and lots of water changes too.

Even if they didn't deplete my buffer I'd say these snails are more pests
than anything. I'm sorry I bought 8 MTS at LFS because I've got thousands
of them now... !


--- Jim


"DonkeyQong" > wrote in message
...
> RedForeman ©® wrote:
>
> > "Victor Martinez" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> >>RedForeman ©® wrote:
> >>
> >>>MTS snails are livebearers, I learned that from Victor, but they aren't
> >>>predated by anything, just because they have a hard thicker shell than
> >
> > most
> >
> >>>snails... it's more need for manual extraction... they really aren't a
> >>
> >>That's what I've been told (about the predation), but I'm not sure about
> >>that. I keep putting more and more MTS into the large tank and they just
> >>don't seem to thrive the way they do in the small tank. The large tank
> >>is full of loaches and the small one doesn't have any.
> >
> >
> >
> > what kind of loaches though? I've got clowns in one and no MTS, Kuhlis
in
> > the other and plent of MTS... the MTS won't thrive in the CL tank,
they're
> > there, just not thriving.... I feed that tank snails....
> >
> > --
> > RedForeman ©®
> > still trying to remember to BOTTOM post....
> >
> >
> Clown Loaches LOVE snails. I have breeding snails in my overflow filter
> that are occasionally blown through the filter into the tank. As soon
> as I see a small snail blow in, the clown loaches nail it. The only
> snails that survive the attack of the clowns are Apple Snails with the
> trapdoor.

[Charles]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 04:41:39 GMT, "Jim Renschen" >
wrote:

>I've got a 120gallon freshwater infested with these MTS and I'm sick of them
>sucking up all the calcium in my tank. They are so plentiful that my water
>gets depleted of minerals and pH starts to crash (try to keep pH around 6.8
>to 7.0 w/CO2). My CO2 system w/ pH controller never kicks on to feed my
>plants since the pH is always to low. I've been pulling them out by hand,
>but am ready to use some copper treatment the LFS said would kill them-- but
>that's always a risk, and lots of water changes too.
>
>Even if they didn't deplete my buffer I'd say these snails are more pests
>than anything. I'm sorry I bought 8 MTS at LFS because I've got thousands
>of them now... !
>
>
>--- Jim
>
Then you could try what worked for me.

I'm the OP for this thread, I believe.

Hex-a-mit from thatfishplace.com

$4.29 for 10 capsules, enough for one treatment of 100 gallons of
water, although I expect it would do 120 just as well. I now have
zero snails in the tank I treated, at least as far as I can see.

I have tried snail-rid in other tanks, with my water conditions it was
not at all effective.
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- Charles
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-does not play well with others