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I am starting to have a snail problem in my 4ft despite being meticulous, or so I thought, in removing them from plants prior to putting them into the tank. I think they are ramshorn snails. I have been manually removing them as I see them but there is just more and more babies.
The tank is heavily planted and is home to my betta. The tank also has a few Darwin Algae Eating Shrimp and also used to have a mystery snail in it which died about 2 weeks ago and removed. I don't feed the shrimp very often and my betta gets 2 pellets morning and frozen foods evening (not ever reaching the tank floor before he consumes it) so I can't feed less to aid the problem, I do a water change with a gravel vac once a week so the tank bottom is fairly clean of debris also.
My thought is that the MS was eating a lot of the remaining debris and this helped keep the pest snails from having an excessive food source? I am planning to get another and also have some more DAE shrimp coming in the mail. If the pest snails are outcompeted for food this should help keep their numbers in check right?
Ithis does not work are they any other ways that I can remove them (I have a snail trap but can't use because the snails are so small at the moment) /are there any types of fish that would eat them and be suitable for my current stock?
Tank is 260 litres so I have a lot of room to add something else so long as they would be okay with my betta
The tank is heavily planted and is home to my betta. The tank also has a few Darwin Algae Eating Shrimp and also used to have a mystery snail in it which died about 2 weeks ago and removed. I don't feed the shrimp very often and my betta gets 2 pellets morning and frozen foods evening (not ever reaching the tank floor before he consumes it) so I can't feed less to aid the problem, I do a water change with a gravel vac once a week so the tank bottom is fairly clean of debris also.
My thought is that the MS was eating a lot of the remaining debris and this helped keep the pest snails from having an excessive food source? I am planning to get another and also have some more DAE shrimp coming in the mail. If the pest snails are outcompeted for food this should help keep their numbers in check right?
Ithis does not work are they any other ways that I can remove them (I have a snail trap but can't use because the snails are so small at the moment) /are there any types of fish that would eat them and be suitable for my current stock?
Tank is 260 litres so I have a lot of room to add something else so long as they would be okay with my betta
