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"Jeff" wrote in message
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Thanks to a lot of people on this group my tank is doing great. Havent
lost
a fish since I started following EVERY recomendation from the group. Water
is crystal clear and all levels are darn near perfect. One thing I didnt
listen to was about the snails. I let the one I saw hang around and now I
have at least dozens of them. In order to get them all it looks like I
would
have to start all over and after 5 weeks of getting it right I dont want
to
do that. I was going to put in 2 Clown Loaches but was told by Pet Smart I
couldnt do that because they are semi aggressive and would kill all the
fish
in my Community Tank. The snails are on the glass, in the rocks, on the
plants (Live and artificial), they are everywhere. The fish look to be
real
happy and content and healthy (If fish can be happy) and I really dont
want
to go through 5 more weeks of cycling and setup and in all probability
kill
all the fish. Any suggestions?



You can either tolerate/live with the snails or get some clown loaches,
which if you arrange it right with the right pet store/lfs, can be a
temporary thing. You should almost always be able to return fish you bought
previously. Listen to what others have said here too (especially netmax the
macgyver-like knowledge big grin to you netmax), you should be able to
return the clown loaches after they have finished their job, I am not
totally sure if the clown loaches will eat every single snail/snail's eggs
but I hope they would so the clown's could be especially helpful, especially
with snails. Other than that you might try the veggy on a small plate in the
tank overnight but I doubt it would be totally successful at removing snails
as there are always eggs somewhere at this point. I used to take in many
bags into my lfs for donation, of fancy guppies which are descendants of
some chain store's fancy guppies, and they took them all, admittedly though
I had to change from a chain store to a lfs because the chain store soon
changed their policy to only taking pets that have been officially shipped
to the chain store from an authorized shipment, so that chain store no
longer will take any fish in from hobbyists. Good luck and later!

P.s. I never needed to even wait to bring the fish in I just called the lfs
an hour or two before bringing them in and they took them.