It's a Snail Trap! An Easy Way to Get Rid of Aquarium Snails 

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I love the Admiral Ackbar reference!

+10 for the thumbnail!

I enjoy my snails. But this is still a neat contraption. Great vid!

I need one for catching feeder snails for my puffers

I will keep this in mind if the snails ever get out of control, thank you! I would so love for you to do a thorough nano tank cleaning video. I've struggled doing vacuuming in my small planted tanks , and any gadgets or tricks you might know would sure be very helpful. Love your channel, I watch every week!

Yep. I need one. From two individuals who stowed away in my plants I now have an army of snails after 1 month. Thanks Joanna!

Very cool

I just got this, life saver

For me this would just be a fancy snail feeder! Haha I love snails 🐌

This is cool. I used to just put a lettuce leaf or zucchini round in and the snails would cover it then I would net it out. This looks much neater though. Thanks, Joanna!

Interesting will have to get one. Broke up with my girlfriend today fifth one for the same reason. She didn’t think the fish in my aquariums are gods and I disagree!

Needed this right now. These bladder snails are making me crazy. Thank you!!

That looks great! I like having a few around for cleanup but they get out of control too quickly!

1st 😁👍 Notification squad 😊 Snails can be good but also bad 😆 i did a species profile on Emperor Tetras today

What an excellent idea. Super!!!!!!!

Happy Saturday Joanna. Thankyou for this video. It’s exactly what I need. Great timing. Sincerely, Marty Borst

Just ordered! My wife and I got a pea puffer to feed it the snails, but we need a larger method of removal.

Going to give this a try. Like my snails…but not so many😁

Which fish are those at 1:39? They’re so curious and cute!

I wish this had been around about 15 years ago. Man did I have some pest snail problems back then.

How cool. It looks like a little alien spaceship. I like my snails, but once in awhile they get a little zealous with over breeding. This would be so useful for those times, plus it just looks so stinking cute 😍

That is so cool. I have 3 varieties of puffers, but they just cannot eat enough to control my little snail outbreak. It is in a tank that houses plants, but there are still waaay too many.

My tank is infested. I bought one these things , and it absolutely works. I bought it from temu for a few dollars. Very thin plastic, wont last long. But I think I can make a home made one instead.

I found the snails would not touch the trap with the supplied food , a slice of cumber worked wonders .

I’m going to try this for sure! All my diy solutions catch everything but the little snails. I need something smaller. This will make feeding pea puffers super easy.

I had a problem with pond snails in my aquarium. It was a nightmare. They came in in a plant I bought at a local fish store. They kept coming and coming. This is a great contraption. Thank you Joanna. Enjoy your weekend 😎

Happy weekend !!! I really need this !

Good Morning

I got a couple of Assassin snails and they're doing the work! I just got a planaria trap like this so i hope it works!

This looks really useful. 😊 Thanks

Thank you. I’m going to give this a try.

What do you do after catching them? Put them in the tanks in the next room?

Super!!!😎👍

Joanna, that looks like a good item for sure. Was thinking maybe a small piece of fishing line (or similar) could be attached for easier addition/removal. Good video. 👍📺😎

Yoyo loaches also work, they eat snails

These are great traps, I've got a couple in storage! Great for extracting snails to feed to puffer tanks. Thanks for sharing Joanna!

Hi Joanna! I got a couple of these traps for trumpet snails and just a heads up to people on your channel. I seemed to have done something stupid with mine - i added a few sinking pellets and a half of an algae wafer cut into pieces. I decided to leave it there for 24 hours..... I got an ammonia spike in the tank. I wouldn't haven known if not for the bubbles at the top of the water. So probably not a good idea to put junky pellets into the trap. I didn't buy the Yum Yum Snail food, obviously!. I'll try again.

As always, thank you, I'm hooked and getting it today

I will be ordering one right now, thankyou. I've been battling snails for months. I'm going to be happy to hopefully get rid of them. Thankyou 😊🦋😊🥳

Thanks Joanna 💚🐌 I've been busy packing and getting my fish settled in totes!! See you guys soon 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚

I have this product. It really works. I don't mind ramshorn snails but the trumpet snails drive me crazy. Liked👍

It's a snail snare!!! 🐌😁

Several of my tanks became over-run with trumpet snails and ramshorns... I boil chunks of seeded yellow squash and put it in the tanks overnight. The next morning I scoop out the whole blob of squash covered in snails and discard.

For the algorithm!!

Nifty gadget. 👍🏻 If needed in the future I would give it a try! Hope you are having a great weekend Joanna! 😊

Awesome I have to many truphet snails....thank you for the video

Great tip Joanna. Looks like you caught a good amount of pea puffer fish food there. This may just be the impetus to set up a pea puffer tank.

I've got one of those! It worked pretty well in my old tank and I relocated many a snail to my outdoor pond. 😊 I kinda like my snails now. They never get very big and mostly eat the algae on my glass so we coexist now. 😊

What do you do with the fishing line it comes with though

I have one of those traps. I don't have anything but Nerites in my tanks, but at one time, I had an infestation of mystery snails when a clerk sold me the wrong snail. It worked for those.

I’m pretty sure that I have the same trap, and I like it a lot.

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Thank you! I've now reset my tank twice and they just keep coming back :-(

It's a trap! 🤣 I'm actually setting up my Star Wars Aquarium soon!

Super happy Saturday (maybe not for the snails 🐌). The only snail problem I have at the moment is in the garden, but may get a couple of these just in case 🤓

I have one of these and want to use it in my shrimp tank. I’m worried it may effect the shrimps. Can someone tell me if it’s safe to use my tank is only cherry shrimps and ramshorn snails

Show us how you get it out the snails

I ended up with trumpet snails in my tank after purchasing plants from a local pet store. They got out of control pretty quickly. I ended up buying the sera snail trap which works well. But my problem is that I feel bad killing them. (Curse of having a big heart). Is there a humane way of killing the snails after you catch them or do you just throw them in the trash?

I like the sera snail trap. It literally will get hundreds of them. Though you have to import it from UK to USA. Costs about 20$ in total off eBay. This one though will work better if you have small fish.

I am going to give this a try. It appears there are similar products but none of them get a higher rating than 3 stars, though most are rated lower than 3 stars. How long does the snail bait last in the water? Thank you.

These might be a great way to take snails out of one tank and into the pea puffer tank. BTW, my puffers are named Itty and Bitty. Bitty is a bit larger than Itty. 🤣

Thank you for this! I bought one online and it didn't come with instructions 😅

What snails are those? I have bladder snails. Ive seen such trap on joom and i ordered one. Lets hope it works for those bladder snails too. They are annoying lol

How do they not crawl back out? Or do you need to empty it often to catch them?

If have this trap, but honestly I don't want to invest in snail food (it costs me 3 times more that the trap) what can I put in as bait?

Im confused... How does it trap them? Cant they just slither off when they have finished eating?

Bait alternatives? Dyi bait?

Do you just rinse them off?

Neat idea 💡 Q: what do you do with the little buggers after you catch them ? 🤔

How about a trap to catch guppy fry? I have a million in my tank, so tired of trying to rehome them one by one with a net

Thank you so much for posting. I love your videos! Do you think this would be contraindicated in a shrimp tank?

I love my little pest snails, but this is would be great if they ever get too out of control.

I tried one like this. It had trouble sinking and my guppies kept trying to get the food. I just went with assassin snails.

Will my Amaño Shrimp 🦐 go in there? 🤔

Okay they are in the trap now what do I do?

Great easy way to collect snail for puffer food and snail eating loaches. There was one type some one use to make a few years back wished I would have bought one but the trap was a rectangular box and on each end there was black bars that hung down one the snail pushed the black plastic bars up and then once the snails got in the bars would come back down they swung only the one way and it held the snails inside the box. I believe it was called "snail collec by Sera" or something similar. The downside was putting it together as each small black bar had to be attached one at a time other than that it was the only downside I saw. And it seemed very effective your husband made a video on it years ago ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JLw9c9Q-Evo.html But they don't seem to be making them any more. I have see some diy versions on RU-vid but I still like the Sera version best. Their is an alternative to the Sera that is similar the JBL Limcollect aquarium snail trap

Just use a piece of vegetable; cucumber, lettuce

Ah yes trumpet snails, good for turning over substrate but multiply grazily fasy.

I have those same snails. I hate em 😒

It doesn't work