hamstermann

Can anyone ID this snail for me?

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Tom

To me it looks like a common pond snail, but I have been known to be wrong at times. Just wait for someone more knowledgable about the topic answers.
Tom

Gargoyle

Pond snail... Very bad.... Kill at once!!

hamstermann

ok
How do you kill them?
We have loads

Gargoyle

Lots of ways....

Catch them and crush them in your fingers, throw them in a pot of boiling lava (water will do as well).

You can place a piece of veggie on a plate in your tank during lights out... Wait an hour or 2 then check to see how many are on your plate. Pull the plate out and dispose of the little parasites that way as well.

Basically do everything you can to get them all out of your tank.. One can breed itself into hundreds. I caught my outbreaks early and disposed of the little buggers quickly. They lay egg sacks that look like mucus stuck to a plant or whatever they stick it to. Remove those as well..

Radcliffe

Or you can look for fish that eat snails- I am trying to breed them on purpose for my pufferfish :-)

--R

hamstermann

fish that eat snails would be the best option. I only have room in my tank for 3.5 inches of more fish, so it'd have to be a non-schooler. and we have livebearers in there so it's need to not eat fry.


the tank is planted, so it'll be hard to see everywhere they can lay. espescially since the hornwort they came in on is so dense. maybe we'll just keep catching and killing, etc.
I did read that copper could kill them as well, so dropped 3 pennies in the tank after cleaning them as best I could. anyone know how quick the pennies will work and if they're bad for livebearers?

griffin

the pennies have to be before a certain year ( i think 1968, but not sure) for them to even have enough copper. not sure how quickly it would work though. if you're not against chemicals, maybe use had-a-snail?

jayfl234

Lettuce has worked for me in removing snails just place some in the tank at night when you shut off the lights and fet rid of them in the morning. I have also had good experience with driftwood I put a piece of driftwood in my tank and then when the lights have been on a while they will hide under the drift wood and i just take the driftwood out and was all the snails off. I have a question could i then boil the would to kill all the egg sacs that are on the wood or would that not work?

Gargoyle

Nope boiling water does it...

griffin

it'll work, but be sure to boil for a while. i did that before (boiled everything in the tank aside from the fish - gravel, decorations, everything) and still ended up having some snails after that. a lot less, but not zero.

zeddy

loaches love snails

Isabella

Pond snails are real good algae eaters!

lolagurl

thats too bad they pond snails..cuz it hink theyre cute..but i guess dozens of overpopulating ones dont look that cute eh?