Getting rid of snails

[HarleyK]

Howdy,

There is a lot of end-of-the-pipe thinking here. With a snail problem, it's often best to go to the roots: Snail populations explode due to excess food in the tank. Thus, I suggest to reduce feeding and improve tank maintenance (vacuuming). Picking the snails out by hand will be a good start, though. I would not use any chemicals. They're mostly copper-based and harm all invertebrates (i.e. also shrimps) and affect most catfish and other scale-less fish.

HarleyK

 

[Gooda]

sell them on ebay for 3.99 a dozen. I actually saw a person doing this. It was funny, we lived in the same small town and they would get them for free from the petsmart that I frequinted...

The methods that worked for me was the food that you remove when covered in snails, and removing them by hand.