Urgent Snail Infestation!

I have a 5 gallon and 10 gallon tank, both tropical freshwater. A few months ago I ordered some plants online, and I’m assuming that is where the issue came from, even though I sanitized them in bleach and hydrogen peroxide the same way I do with all my plants. All the fish are still fine this far, but I now have a snail infestation. In my 10 gallon, there’s only a ramshorn (I think?) snail I found and no others, but I know if I do nothing that will go from 0 to 100 in a second if there are any more hiding, or even if there aren’t since they can reproduce asexually I’ve heard. If the population won’t explode I wouldn’t mind the one ramshorn living in there.
However, the 5 gallon has the urgent issue. I looked in there earlier and I am not exaggerating when I say there are hundreds of snails, if not thousands (most of them are incredibly tiny, if I didn’t see one bigger one (which was still at least <4mm long) and then look closer I probably would’ve thought they were air bubbles.) I also can see many clusters of eggs on everything.
I’m not sure what kind of snails they are, they’re shaped sort of like tiny mystery snails but their shells are marbled gold and black and iridescent. They’re actually kind of pretty, would be more pretty if there weren’t thousands of them coating the tank. The smallest ones are significantly smaller than 1mm, they really are the size of those tiny air bubbles. I’m genuinely considering cycling a whole new tank to put my guppies in and just hiding that tank to let the snails and plants do whatever. How do I fix these problems? Can I?
I also feel like it’s worth saying that if possible, I’d rather transfer the snails and things with eggs and have a terrarium of the snails, but if that’s not possible I would definitely rather save my fish and other aquatic plants. Just saying so if anyone has advice on doing that, please share.
Thanks in advance everyone!

 

If you have that many snails you are overfeeding.

You can siphon some up when you do water changes. There are threads one this page that talk about making traps. Some people put a piece of vegetable, like a piece of cucumber, in the tank and then remove it when it's covered by snails.

 

If you have that many snails you are overfeeding.

You can siphon some up when you do water changes. There are threads one this page that talk about making traps. Some people put a piece of vegetable, like a piece of cucumber, in the tank and then remove it when it's covered by snails.

That’s not a bad idea, I’ll try that. I didn’t think I was overfeeding since my fish were healthy, but ill try feeding a little less and making sure to siphon up the extra food. Thanks for the help!

 

Good luck. If it's any consolation, snails help keep your tank healthy by stirring up the substrate and eating dead plant material.

 

I wish I had your snails! I have loaches that would love to eat them! That being said, you might be able to post them for sale some where, I use to have a ton of snails, I would do the cucumber thing, or just scoop them with my hands and my friend would take them and feed them to his fish. Then one day I got loaches. Bye Bye to all snails forever. Even snails I want to keep! They ate my nerites and my rabbit snails. I'm the dummy who believed articles saying that they wouldn't.

 

Good luck. If it's any consolation, snails help keep your tank healthy by stirring up the substrate and eating dead plant material.

Thanks. I hope theyll be helpful, but they’re already killing some of my plants and keeping me from seeing sections of the substrate so I think it’s passed the sweet spot of being beneficial lol, hopefully I can get it under control!

I wish I had your snails! I have loaches that would love to eat them! That being said, you might be able to post them for sale some where, I use to have a ton of snails, I would do the cucumber thing, or just scoop them with my hands and my friend would take them and feed them to his fish. Then one day I got loaches. Bye Bye to all snails forever. Even snails I want to keep! They ate my nerites and my rabbit snails. I'm the dummy who believed articles saying that they wouldn't.

Yeah, I am thinking about maybe selling them to a local fish store or online, but im checking that I don’t need a permit for it where I live first. Sorry about your nerites and rabbit snails!

Also, mini update, I figured out that the ones in my 5 gallon are bladder snails, albeit oddly iridescent ones

 

I have those.

If there's an aquarium club you may find somebody who needs them to feed to a loach or puffer.