I made a snail trap cutting down a plastic bottle and making a small bottle, gluing one side together with my hot glue gun. Then I took my wood burning tool and make lots of holes (entrances) on the sides all around. I glued a screw on the inside bottom to put the cucumber piece on and would add weight to it. I tied a string on the lid so I could haul it out of the water when mission accomplished. I put it in the tank overnight and in the morning hauled out a sizable amount of snails.
I watched your video before buying the JBL snail trap and was dubious however I am so impressed and happy with this product. I have so many unwanted pest snails and this was my first attempt at using it and I can’t believe the results. Consequently I have ordered a 2nd one for my other aquarium. I feel that I can see a way forward with a situation that was beating me. Thank you for your comparisons. This really works
Liked video! Try your way. 2 changes 1- put a saucer down first. A bigger terra cotta watering bottom would work. 2 - set the pot upside down with wafers inside on the bottom watering saucer. The hole would be the only way in and out. No fish getting a free meal.
Can’t argue with those results! I’ll be honest just looking at them I assumed the bottle was going to win it but I was proved wrong. That’s why these tests are great. Unless JBL have paid you off! And you spent all night forcing snails into that trap 🤣🤣
I used the plastic bottle method it caught plenty of snails but also my fish made there way in there and couldn't get out!! I've recently but a cheap one from ebay but it hasn't been very successful. I'll go for the one now which you used, the green one that caught loads of 🐌 🐌 🐌. Enjoyed watching your experiment thanks very much.I hate snails they make me cringe .
Also, you can just use jars of any size, no lid...glass jars stay down well...and as a bonus, if you need to transfer fish, use jars...put a frozen bloodworm or brine shrimp or wafer in...while they're busy eating, put your fingers over the opening and pick the jar up. Happy fish keeping!
I would like to know how do these little blighters get into ones tank in the first place..I don’t have live plants..but have found three tiny horn like ones at the bottom of my substrate sand.
I have found that just dropping in algae wafer into the tank and waiting several hours till I get a mound of them then I swishing them into a net I get dozens this way.
Thanks! I think I've got my bladder snails under control now but if it kicks off again I'll go with this. Easier and cheaper than getting some assassin snails :D
Lol, the algae wafer technique is how I get out some of the bladder snails from my Walstad tank. I then donate the snails to my local pet store's aquatic plant tank (they give me permission to do this).
Invest in a small tank with pea puffers in it, you're not killing them yourself and you're also giving your pea buddies a good feast its the second reason I wanted pea puffers next to loving the little dudes
Great video. My snails are in my plecko and blue shrimp tank. I have 4 smallish pleckos, full grown yellow blue eyes and 3 red sovereign so I am worried they could be strong enough to enter the JBL unit. Do you think this is an unrealistic fear?
No wonder my snail trap didn't work. I assumed they would all stay in the bottle eating all night long and I could just pull them all out. Apparently they eat a little bit and leave?
Awesome video! Very informative, I've tried snail traps but I got cheap ones that didn't work to well. Although I don't have a huge issue with them, I've sold hundred on ebay haha, so at least those buggers pay the bills
When I had a problem with Ramshorn snail I just turned the light out at night waited a few hours and when they were all over the glass I just scraped the net up the glass, got about 80-100 snails every couple of days till it got back to a reasonable number
When you have so many snails, just suck them out with an air tube!!! You could have gotten all of those hundreds of snails out more easily in a couple of minutes... Though it might be messier if your top substrate is sand (mine is fine gravel)
Question: How on earth do you grow one billion snails? I worked hard to establish a good (I believed) snail colony in my tank. I think I've got maybe a handful. I've never seen more than 3 or 4 at a time. Do you feed them special snail food extra from the lot you feed your fish?
I'm not sure this was a fair test. With all three in at once the snails are probably attracted to whichever one they can smell easiest. I.e. Your pot first then the jbl then your water bottle. No flow in the bottle so most probably didn't know it was there? Maybe a fairer test would be to do each one for 24 hours on its own? Just a thought. Nice video though and shows the job works.
Hello to you, after much research on you tube i watched this great video on catching snails but my problem is more what to do with them for i truly cannot kill them. I bought to rams horn snails on the grounds that the seller told me they cannot accumulate unless they are in salt water yet i do not have a salt water tank and only a few fish, Tetra and guppies and after 2 months i must now have over a hundred of them Grr!.. my tank is small too so please can you tell me how i can get rid of them without killing them? Thank you so much :)
This looks great, but are afraid my tiny salt and pepper corydoras or the shrimps would risk getting caught in it 🤔 Are they safe for all fishes? Also been looking at assassin snails, but don't want them to kill my military helmet snails 🙈 Or risk my Betta take a chunk from their "snable" 😅
You can adjust the gates to keep smaller fish out - but there is a risk they could still get in. As long as you check fairly regularly it shouldn't be a problem though, you can just release the fish and remove the snails!
