Snails

55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those low
life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.

What do I use to kill them. Mostly cone shaped snails, no bigger than
1/2 inch. Don't say buy a snail killing fish as I already tried that. I
declare chemical war!

And once they're dead, dead, dead how do I get the chemical out of my
tank?

Thanks, in advance.

"Boris" wrote in message
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| 55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those
low
| life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.
|


Despite your plea, I'd recommend visiting www.loaches.com, many
loaches are voracious snail killers.
That said, there are several products, "Had-a-Snail" is one I've
used. After dosing is complete, use carbon and water changes if
you're concerned about chemical residue. Be warned, these products
can have undesired effects on other living things.
http://www.bigalsonline.com/search/?...ywords1=snails

(watch wrap)

billy

"Boris" wrote in message
news:Ly_9c.25099$wl1.1067@fed1read06...
55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those low
life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.

What do I use to kill them. Mostly cone shaped snails, no bigger than
1/2 inch. Don't say buy a snail killing fish as I already tried that. I
declare chemical war!

And once they're dead, dead, dead how do I get the chemical out of my
tank?

Thanks, in advance.

I have the same problem and was advised to drop a piece of cucumber
(elasticated to a stone) into the tank at lights out. Remove the cucumber
before lights on and millions of snails would be attached (to the cucumber
not the stone). I haven't tried it myself yet!

HTH - Dave

Boris wrote:

55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those low
life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.


Why would you want to kill them painfully? Sounds a bit nasty to me!
Loaches are the trick, failing that pick them out. Snails aren't necessarily
a bad thing!

Geezer From Freezer" wrote in message
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Boris wrote:

55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those low
life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.


Why would you want to kill them painfully? Sounds a bit nasty to me!
Loaches are the trick, failing that pick them out. Snails aren't
necessarily
a bad thing!

Well, I can't think of a more painful way to die than being
eaten alive by a loach...

coelacanth wrote:

Well, I can't think of a more painful way to die than being
eaten alive by a loach...

Being eaten is a quicker death than chemicals thats for sure!

Ok,

This have probably been asked before but I have a tank with plants and
mostly tetras. I do have a ton of snails though. Are loaches too agressive
and if so is there some alternative other than salt (I was under the
impression that salt could be bad for tetras) or chemical Snail - B- Gone
type product?


"coelacanth" wrote in message
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Geezer From Freezer" wrote in message
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Boris wrote:

55g tank. artificial plants, community fish. Infested with those low
life snails. I want to kill them all. And painfully if possible.


Why would you want to kill them painfully? Sounds a bit nasty to me!
Loaches are the trick, failing that pick them out. Snails aren't
necessarily
a bad thing!

Well, I can't think of a more painful way to die than being
eaten alive by a loach...

"Tylan" wrote in message
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Ok,

This have probably been asked before but I have a tank with plants and
mostly tetras. I do have a ton of snails though. Are loaches too
agressive
and if so is there some alternative other than salt (I was under the
impression that salt could be bad for tetras) or chemical Snail - B-
Gone
type product?

Some loaches eat snail eggs. Can't recall which though, Bengals, Banded
something like that, long snout. Some snails also eat snail eggs (Nerita
or MTS possibly, also can't recall, must be an age thing ;~). Anyways,
if you have something which eats snail eggs, then you are left with
dealing with the adults. Not a very quick solution, but it keeps you
away from aggressive loaches and copper based snailacides which don't
really work anyways.

I think that the amount of salt needed to kill snails might be beyond
your tetra's threshold (and maybe even your plants). Maybe someone has
some practical experience they can share regarding salt dosages as a
snail killer.

NetMax

"NetMax" wrote in message
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| some practical experience they can share regarding salt dosages as
a


This salt dosage issue just keeps coming back to haunt you, eh?g

billy

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:58:53 -0400, "NetMax"
wrote:


"Tylan" wrote in message
newsyKcc.316$FE2.55@lakeread01...
Ok,

This have probably been asked before but I have a tank with plants and
mostly tetras. I do have a ton of snails though. Are loaches too
agressive
and if so is there some alternative other than salt (I was under the
impression that salt could be bad for tetras) or chemical Snail - B-
Gone
type product?

Some loaches eat snail eggs. Can't recall which though, Bengals, Banded
something like that, long snout. Some snails also eat snail eggs (Nerita
or MTS possibly, also can't recall, must be an age thing ;~). Anyways,
if you have something which eats snail eggs, then you are left with
dealing with the adults. Not a very quick solution, but it keeps you
away from aggressive loaches and copper based snailacides which don't
really work anyways.

I think that the amount of salt needed to kill snails might be beyond
your tetra's threshold (and maybe even your plants). Maybe someone has
some practical experience they can share regarding salt dosages as a
snail killer.

NetMax



Had-a-snail did nothing for my snails. Hex-a-mit killed most kinds.


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