I left my old tank out to dry completely for a week and then I filled it up again and was about to set it up and the eggs survived, I will now bleach them into oblivion, if that doesn’t work I will burn it in a landfill
😂😂 funny thing is, they will probably survive! Just nuke them and be done with it. Dont worry, its completely reasonable! It's not like we dont despise them on a molecular level 😒 THEYRE EATING OUR PLANTS 😡 That means war! Edit: or burn them with thermite! Nothing will survive thermite. Not even their evil souls!
@@marthanewsome6375 even then, I have yo yo loaches pea puffers eating them and they just keep stealing all the food from my glofish shark and my loaches. It’s gotten so bad I’ve been pulling out about 100 snails every time I drop in some pellets to feed the shark and that’s been the only way I can reduce the population momentarily
The little girl next door had a large Black Moor she wanted me to find a home for. I brought it home and within five days the hundreds of snails in my tank had been eaten. I have no snails left after a four year battle with them. Thank you little Kennedy next door.
If the snails aren't too large, try adding a few medium size loaches like the yo-yo loach (botia almorhae), the angelicus loach (botia kubotai) or the zebra loach (botia striata). They can be entertaining to watch play and chase each other, and they will eat EVERY snail in your tank, but not immediately. These loaches can live for several years and don't get too big. They also don't cost a lot, are easy to feed, and they get along with other fish. The only downside is they need company so you can't get just one. I love mine, even though they hide a lot! Lastly, they will need a few hiding places like fake logs.
@DianaRauzina I'm sorry, but I don't have shrimp. I imagine if a fish can fit them in their mouth, they'll eat them. It's probably also dependent on the size. Baby shrimp are always at risk of being eaten because they're like a chicken nugget, bite-sized. Good luck🍀!
Nice one Stephen. I do it the old school way by picking them out. I usually wait until they're on the glass so it's "easier". I've also found those small, stiff nets with a bamboo handle are an effective solution as well.
Zokomo TV thanks for watching and for the comment! I hear you on the old school method, I just don’t think I can get them all by hand, especially since so many are tucked into my hair grass and under the plants. I do have a survival of the fittest rule when I do water changes: if the snail is in reach, it’s gets picked off.
I used assassin snails in a 39 gallon tank which did a wonderful job, I thought, until I realized how many baby snails were just hiding in the gravel substrate. I ended up moving my fish and assassin snails into a new tank and after cleaning the 39, it’s now a quarantine tank when I need it. By the way, your planted tank is beautiful!
I have trumpet snails. I will never get rid of them all except if i completely take the tank down and start over. I liked the pond snails like you have, better! All my pond snails disappeared when the trumpet snails showed up, for some reason. Those darn trumpet snails came in with a plant and i suspect it was from a plant i bought from Aquarium co-op. I pick them out manually and put them in the bird bath outside. Some people say they are against what i do with them, but it is what it is! Best regards.
What I have found in the past is that assassin snails do help keep the population of snells down however they also to eat shrimp. So before you put an assassin snail into your tank with shrimp please take it under consideration. I've seen first hand an assassin snail hunting and eating one of my neocaradina shrimp.
LOACHES eat snails. they are also supposed to be kept in groups though. kuhli loach, regular lil cory kats, and also things like yoyo loaches (which look hella cool imho). *i got a yoyo loach* and what i can tell you is that i now have the snails in check. i think he only goes after the smaller ones. no longer are there any on the glass sides. some of the others got way bigger and were easy to pluck out. but it no longer feels INSANE and overwhelming. so, i'd say that getting a loach will fix 65% of your problem. you may still have some snails but hardly noticeable. and i think if you pick the large ones out, your loach will be taking care of the small ones and eventually you'll be in the clear. it's a *massive* difference compared to my tank that has no loach. (but i have a shrimp in there and i hear that loaches sometimes try to go after shrimp. don't wanna kill my lil orange guy. might swap the loach to that tank later or idk.)
I always treated my plants before putting them in my tank, except one time, and that’s when I started seeing hitchhikers snails. So far I haven’t (seen) many and I manually remove them. I also have nerite snails and a pleco which might be out competing the invaders. I also tried using zucchini but only my nerites and pleco enjoyed it. There are a few videos where alum is used and it always works. Doesn’t hurt the plants. Originally, I was using 5% peroxide solution and aquarium salt. It kills algae, snails and eggs but It kills ferns tho. It’s also possible for snails to come in with fish or even pooped out of fish. I’ll definitely use alum on my next plants. You can find alum at the grocery store in the spice isle.
After watching so many freaking videos on how to get rid of these pesky bastards and coming up with nothing useful. I FINALLY FIND THE ANSWER by reading your comment. I looked up alum and it looks VERY promising. Thank you
@@katelovell625 Since answering your question I’ve had to treat the tank for flatworms and hydra. I used NoPlanaria first and then Panacur C dog dewormer. Now I can’t have snails in that tank. The meds aren’t coming out. So, try either medication and you definitely won’t have a pest snail problem
Step one, place a "big chunk" not what you did of cucumber on a fork and place it in there at lights out and pull it out each morning. Do this until you have majorly reduced the population. Then use "No Planaria" at the prescribed dosage. It will kill off bladder snails completely, but will not effect the eggs. Repeat the 3 day dosage in 3 weeks will kill off the babies. Assassin snails will eat your shrimplets when they've run out of snails to eat. I would try to remove as many bladder snails by hand or by cucumber and use No Planaria, completely shrimp safe, but will not work with ramshorn snails and limited results with malaysian trumpet snails.
I saw a video, don’t remember who posted it, where he used a small comet goldfish to eat the snails. Said it ate a lot in one day. Don’t know. I just got some in one of my tanks, may try it or an assassin snail.
Except the Assassin Snails will reproduce and they will multiply too. Even Nerites they claim need to have the opposite sex to reproduce, but they lay eggs all over the glass, and some actually mature. I know, I am dealing with that in one of my tanks right now. That tank has only had Nerites in it, yet there were eggs galore, and even though I thought I had gotten rid of all the eggs, all of a sudden I have all these babies showing up.
I haven't tried this, but I believe the best way to fully get rid of Trumpet snails 🐌 is, Keep the tank full of water - dont remove your fish 🐟 - , Pull all the plants and fixtures out, then remove all the gravel wirh A scooper (slowly). Now vacuum out half your tanks water, then put new gravel in, then all new fixtures in - or just clean your previous fixtures and plants 🪴. Then fill the tank up with water 💧🙂👍. NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸
Best way is to keep your gravel clean, keep water perimeters on point, switch to a different food source that doesnt sink to the bottom and remove plants that seem to be a foodsource for snails. I forgot the name but i have a specific plant that attracts them like catnip does to cats (thats my snailtrap).
I took all my fish out, i only have artificial plants so what i did was add viniger and plenty of salt the next day i see some snails moving so i added more viniger and more salt the next day my tank was a ghost town, then i took half of the water out and added half.😂
I dont kill snails in my tank. Just use suction pump and feed to my oscars which is in another tank. Sometime i put spinach and when they are much enough in spinach, feeding time again to my oscars, its a great treat for them
Me and my misses are new to the fish keeping world we started with a 15 gallon tank for 8 guppies and some 5snails then got a 55 gallon tank now we have hundreds of snails and guppies none stop we have loche fish rainbow shark two angelfish and a pleco and a betta fish the snails are a great problem angelfish eat them when they can and so does the loche
not enough love for a well made video! I've read a lot about assassin snails being used and I just had a snail explosion in my tank. Hope it worked out for you!
These snails also travel on your nets into allll your other tanks if you cross contaminated like I do. Even if you don't see them they will be in a larval state or even so small you don't realize.. pancur c will nuke them also but will nuke every invert soooo meh def need a team of assassin snails to get the job done too. Edit. The medicine needs to be dosed in high enough doses to actually kill them
i just got a new 20 gallon tank from petsmart, and got some plants too. this is the second time i have received unwanted snails from their plants. i knoe have two tanks that are completely infested! i’m so pissed man
Just be patient and take a few minutes a day to pick out the snails where you see them. At first you’ll get a few dozen a day, after a few weeks you’ll be down to a few a day and eventually you’ll struggle to find them.
I had one assassin snail for a few months and it disappeared and my snail problem grew so now i went to buy 6 assassin snails i will also be removing manually and I'll by using cucumber
Jesus, I wish we had researched first but we just wanted a small tank with a couple of snails and guppies. 5 snails were cute. Now it's 500 and counting easily, I am in trouble , they are clumped in huge balls , covered every plant, all over my pumps and heater, it happened so fast.
i was gonna use the assassin snail, but 1 quick youtube search shows me that the assassin snail could kill shrimp, and because of that i only do the manual remove and the food bait methods. but they're still in there, breeding.....
Before I knew about treating my plants, I was seeing Orange snails which were ramshorns, and I manually removed them but ended up getting a dwarf pea puffer which took care of them and now I also have hitchhikers ( bladder snails) in other tanks, but trying to grab that pea puffer in my 8 gallon bio orb classic is not easy, so from here on out, I will treat all of my plants prior to adding to my tanks
You got 2 options bro. Your assassin snails should work over time. If not,you'll have to rip the tank apart,dip all your plants,media,etc into a bleach solution for 3 minutes then wash everything off really good and hope all the eggs died in the dip.. those snails you have came with a plant and thats how your tank got infested. Hopefully the assassins will work and you wont have to bleach dip.. Also,when buying plants,its good to quarantine the plants for 2 weeks before adding to your nice tanks. If any snails are in the plants,they will show themselves in 2 weeks time and you can kill them off before they make it to your tanks.
I've had assassin snails in my tanks for months. They haven't helped at all. I'm looking for a way to totally empty my tank without hurting my fish. Totally clean it with peroxide and all of my decor. I'm looking for a video on how to do it. I'm going to keep looking. Thankyou for your ideas.🦋❣🦋
@@goodvibesandhealing Thankyou, I did empty the tank, reserving about 1/2 of the water into 3 separate containers with my fish. I used the old sponge filters. I throughly cleaned the tank w/peroxide & hot water. Put all new everything into the tank, but I strained the water 3-4 times, used the water for bacteria with new fresh water and treatments. Its been 3 weeks, so far no pond snails. 😊Sorry for the drawn out story, but after so many tries, I finally got it right. 😊
It’s mostly about the aesthetics of the aquascape and not a functional concern. When you end up with hundreds in the tank it really disrupts the otherwise pristine looks of the environment you’re trying to maintain. Particularly if you like to photograph your work.
@@stephenmanning3978 Ok got it , aesthetics , same taste ( lol ) as my Goldfish and Yellow labs , I like to see them moving all over the place and it look more natural . I had 5 or 6 species over the years , atm bladder snails are my favourites
put a yoyo loach in and from day 2 you will start seeing empty shells building up on the bottom of the tank . They are too big for a nano tank but buy him let him do his job and take him back. Almost like renting a hitman
We got clown loach today as we snail 🐌 population there I love snails and very colourful magnificent fish I could only have two only 70galion tank I named them Pinky and perky and I love to love watch them swimming round in our aquarium I find video hope this helps you
I had pest snails in a tank with my normal ones and couldn’t get rid of them so I gave up I ended up buying some rams that liked the ph level higher so I raised it to 6.5 ish killed all the snails even the ones I wanted to keep but all my fish were fine as I have a community tank rams ended up dying don’t recommend keeping them fish in England nothing but problems
I personally don’t advocate for purchasing livestock for the purposes of removing snails. Pea puffers have very specific care requirements and once they take care of your snail problem, you are left with a fish you need to continue to care for.
I had a huge problem with snails until recently. The method that I chose really only works if you have a smaller tank 10-50 gallons and if you do not use live plants. Basically I completely cleared my tank out, had to put all my cosmetics outside to dry to allow all the snails and eggs to completely dry out. Then both the tank and everything else was doused in bleach. I spent a lot of time scraping all the eggs off the sides and from my cosmetics. From what I have read on the internet, this is the only way to completely guarantee that you no longer have any snails left in the tank. Really great video tho, I see you quickly booming in popularity among fish-tube
Sounds like a ton of work! I’d be worried about losing plants to the bleach but I know others have found success with this method. Thanks for the comment and the words of support!
True but I don’t advocate people stock there tank based on a desire to eradicate snails. Because if you’re not crazy about the fish your still stuck with it after the snails are gone.
i got snails a few years ago from a piece of wood from pet shop next thing i knew had snails everywhere i tried all these methods except the killer snail i did not want snails I had no luck with any methods i had to manually remove them I kept the fish in tank and removed everything but the fish and filter i removed all the gravel.. I did not remove everything at once i removed a little bit at the time . a few decorations at a time and removed the gravel a little bit at a time i did the gravel in sections . and my tank was bare bottom till i clean and made sure all the snails was gone snail eggs can live for up to 14 days i feed my fish very light .. and every other day i did not want to over feed and feed the snails too and have them multiply i boiled all my directions and wood and after a month and no snail signs i stared adding new gravel in small sections at a time and readied everything back ..i am doing plants now With plants i do the alma dip and quarantine the plants before i add to my tank to prevent unwanted snails
