"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message
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Dan White wrote:

But what will you do with them once you have sucked them
out of the tank?

It'll be hammer time.

The hammer might not be very practical. Too small and too many. A pot
of boiling water, drop them in. I believe escargo is started this way.

As Mike was suggesting, a couple of Zebra loaches might start making a
dent in the population, but if you are overfeeding, they might chose your
food instead. There are other fish which would help control the MTS
population. Baby MTS are often seen on the top of the water early in the
morning.

Besides looking a little eerie (watching your substrate moving), another
reason for thinning the MTS population down is to reduce the bio-load on
the tank (but you would need to decrease the food supply to get the
benefit).

Let us know which worked best for you.
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I'd prefer not to kill the snails this way, but only because I feel
it's wasting a lot of potential fish food, not out of any sense of
squeamishness. If there is no suitable predator-based solution for my
tank, then this will be the route I take.


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