bleach treatment for soaking plants to remove snails, how long?

[.D.E.]

I'm over run with trumpet snails and have decided to completely gut my tank,
wash and shift the snails out of the gravel, dip my plants in a 5% solution
of bleach to kill any snails and put the plants in a bucket of water which
I'll change a couple of times with fresh water. I was going to leave the
plants in the bleach solution for about 3-5 mins, then rinse them off and
put them into a bucket filled with ordinary water with a shot of chlorine
remover. I'll change this a couple of times just to make sure all the
chlorine is gone.
So 3-5 mins should kill all the baby snails on the plants correct?

Suggestions?


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".D.E." > wrote in message
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> I'm over run with trumpet snails and have decided to completely gut my
> tank,
> wash and shift the snails out of the gravel, dip my plants in a 5%
> solution
> of bleach to kill any snails and put the plants in a bucket of water which
> I'll change a couple of times with fresh water. I was going to leave the
> plants in the bleach solution for about 3-5 mins, then rinse them off and
> put them into a bucket filled with ordinary water with a shot of chlorine
> remover. I'll change this a couple of times just to make sure all the
> chlorine is gone.
> So 3-5 mins should kill all the baby snails on the plants correct?
>
> Suggestions?

It might be worth putting some loaches in first.
Should be less snails to bleach off later.

[Richard Sexton]

In article <iEgMh.47509$DN.43033@pd7urf2no>,
..D.E. > wrote:
>I'm over run with trumpet snails and have decided to completely gut my tank,
>wash and shift the snails out of the gravel, dip my plants in a 5% solution
>of bleach to kill any snails and put the plants in a bucket of water which
>I'll change a couple of times with fresh water. I was going to leave the
>plants in the bleach solution for about 3-5 mins, then rinse them off and
>put them into a bucket filled with ordinary water with a shot of chlorine
>remover. I'll change this a couple of times just to make sure all the
>chlorine is gone.
>So 3-5 mins should kill all the baby snails on the plants correct?
>
>Suggestions?

I've tried stronger and longer bleach treatments than that - it didn't kill
trumpet snails. Get some clown loached to eat them and if you ever take the
loaches out, boil the gravel for an hour. Freezing it for a year won't kill
ramshorns, I dunno about MTS.

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[.D.E.]

6 clown loaches as well as 2 zebra loaches. The mts shells are too touch for
the loaches to crush them. I can't crush them against the glass, and they've
become quite the mass of snails. So, since I have a bunch of Japonica
shrimp, snailaside is not an option. I was going to tear down the tank, wash
all the snails I can out of the gravel, bleach dip the plants and start over
again. No only to get them out of the filter. Suggestions on how to do that?


".D.E." > wrote in message
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> I'm over run with trumpet snails and have decided to completely gut my
> tank,
> wash and shift the snails out of the gravel, dip my plants in a 5%
> solution
> of bleach to kill any snails and put the plants in a bucket of water which
> I'll change a couple of times with fresh water. I was going to leave the
> plants in the bleach solution for about 3-5 mins, then rinse them off and
> put them into a bucket filled with ordinary water with a shot of chlorine
> remover. I'll change this a couple of times just to make sure all the
> chlorine is gone.
> So 3-5 mins should kill all the baby snails on the plants correct?
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
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> Later.
> DE
> Have a better one.
> To reply, remove: forget.the.spam. from my email address
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