10 Gallon Tank Mini Ramshorn Snails need to go

Help! I have been ignoring my complete infestation of mini Ramshorn snails for about a year (they hitchhiked in on some RRF which all died and just left me with these awful creatures) but recently I decided that I was sick of looking at them. I manually removed all on the glass and on my plants and honestly removed about 100. They are EVERYWHERE. They all crowd around my bubbler filter and I believe they're the reason my swords aren't doing so great. Since that big extraction I've been turning out the light for a few hours and them coming in and smushing the remaining ones that venture out with the end of a chopstick every few times a day. I have heard that assassin snails kill ramshorn snails but my concern is that these awful pests are just so small... would they even be effective? My main questions are what can I do to completely eradicate them? I want to avoid having to tear down my tank by all means necessary. Most people give ways to lessen numbers and control pest snail populations and say that they're good for tanks but I don't want to see another mini ramshorn snail in my life. I need to wipe them out completely. Please help!
- I have a 10 gallon with no snails that I want to keep alive
- Low-Tech cycled planted community tank

 

What stock do you have? If you don't have pet snails or shrimp copper should work. Need to read the instructions very carefully because too much can kill plants too. Then a very careful vac after to get as many bodies as possible.

 

You'll never eradicate them even if you strip your tank,there's always a possibility there's eggs somewhere or snails in your filter, dwarf/mini ramshorn are to small for assissan's to eat and you'll also end up with a load of them, I have them in my shrimp tanks and when they get to much I just siphon off on water change and thats enough to keep the population down

 

What stock do you have? If you don't have pet snails or shrimp copper should work. Need to read the instructions very carefully because too much can kill plants too. Then a very careful vac after to get as many bodies as possible.

Ive got a betta, 6 neon tetras, a lone Harlequin Rasbora, and three Otocincluses. No shrimp or wanted snails

You'll never eradicate them even if you strip your tank,there's always a possibility there's eggs somewhere or snails in your filter, dwarf/mini ramshorn are to small for assissan's to eat and you'll also end up with a load of them, I have them in my shrimp tanks and when they get to much I just siphon off on water change and thats enough to keep the population down

Thats what I was afraid of. I hate mini rams horns sm!

 

three Otocincluses.

And the idea with the copper is buried, it is also a catfish killer.

 

And the idea with the copper is buried, it is also a catfish killer.

That's kind of why I asked the stock. Wasn't sure on all fish.

 

I eradicated them from my 15 gallon by stripping it down, dumping all the filter media, substrate, and plants. I boiled the water change pump, filter, and hardscape. I cleaned the tank with scalding water and let it sit outside for 3 days in the middle of summer.
Assassin snails didn’t do much besides breed.The ramshorns were just too small to be targeted.

 

I eradicated them from my 15 gallon by stripping it down, dumping all the filter media, substrate, and plants. I boiled the water change pump, filter, and hardscape. I cleaned the tank with scalding water and let it sit outside for 3 days in the middle of summer.
Assassin snails didn’t do much besides breed.The ramshorns were just too small to be targeted.

That's what I call overkill, in the literal sense.

 

Its so easy to do the overkill, then the first plant you put in a new setup as eggs hidden and its
Here we go again, so much time wasted, unless you are meticulous in how you add anything to a tank you will have some sort of snail at some point