I have baby snails well i think they are, they look like little globs of goo with something brown inside them??? have quite a few over the tank now, have been taking them out as I see them, but they seem to be appearin g from nowhere!!!, how can i get rid of them without harming my corydoras & plec and without having to add a snail eating fish to my tank??
Please help!!!
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Hi mermaid
If you have corys they may eat the snails . I have 2 corys in with my four clown loaches and they try to get to the snails and eat them is they can . This started when my loaches were just tiny and I had to crush the snails first to teach them to eat them . The cories were all over the crushed snails too ! Now that the loaches are much bigger then the cories they get all of the snails but , if you can stomach it , try crushing them and letting them sink to the bottom and see if it works . I also know that many of my snails in my snail breeding tank died when the temp was higher , like 78-79 . My fish like this temperature but the snails like it cooler .
good luck
dag
If you have corys they may eat the snails . I have 2 corys in with my four clown loaches and they try to get to the snails and eat them is they can . This started when my loaches were just tiny and I had to crush the snails first to teach them to eat them . The cories were all over the crushed snails too ! Now that the loaches are much bigger then the cories they get all of the snails but , if you can stomach it , try crushing them and letting them sink to the bottom and see if it works . I also know that many of my snails in my snail breeding tank died when the temp was higher , like 78-79 . My fish like this temperature but the snails like it cooler .
good luck
dag
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you could also try a big piece of lettuce weighed down with something...leave it in there overnight and they will gravitate to the lettuce to feed on it...just remove the lettuce the next day....
you might have to repeat the process a few times to get all of them, especially if there're more eggs...
it worked for me though...
david
p.s. that way you don't have to introduce new fish into your tank, nor wait through a quarantine period for new fish as the snails continue to multiply...
you might have to repeat the process a few times to get all of them, especially if there're more eggs...
it worked for me though...
david
p.s. that way you don't have to introduce new fish into your tank, nor wait through a quarantine period for new fish as the snails continue to multiply...
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Thank you, sounds like a better idea as i dont want to inroduce any more fish to my tankdavidkozak wrote:you could also try a big piece of lettuce weighed down with something...leave it in there overnight and they will gravitate to the lettuce to feed on it...just remove the lettuce the next day....
you might have to repeat the process a few times to get all of them, especially if there're more eggs...
it worked for me though...
david
p.s. that way you don't have to introduce new fish into your tank, nor wait through a quarantine period for new fish as the snails continue to multiply...