snail problem

[ashhhh]

did anyone ask him what type of fish he keeps?
 
Maybe clownys wont be suitable if he keeps large or aggressive natured fish.

If you do have aggressive or large fish that will not get on too well with clowns, you can allways use some eggcrate to divide your tank and let them 'clean' out a section of the tank for a couple of days and then move them to the otherside to finish the job, without getting harrassed by other tankmates, and then as grummundi said you can allways sell them when your done with them.......hope this helps :wink:

[jason]

i have frontosa venustas and peacocks and a few others. They all leave the bristlenose alone so i think the loaches of 5 or so cm should be fine.

I have kept them will all those breeds, should be fine.

[Alan Caboolture]

Clowns, or any othe loach are great on rams horn, pond, paper, mystry, and all sort of other snails , but they have practically no impact on cone snails.

Redclaw crays will crack and eat them, but at a cost to all the plants in the tank.

Even chemical 'cures' have little impact.  They just shut up and out wait the 'cure'.

I have infested gravel (cubic meters of it) that has been sitting in the paddock, dry, for 15 years, and the snails are still in it. Add water an out they come.

How can an aquatic animal live that long dry ??????????

They are definately drought proof....Well adapted to Australia.

Boiling all the gravel on the BBQ is the only solution I have found.

Alan

[ashhhh]

[quote:38642acb51]Boiling is the only solution I have found[/quote:38642acb51]

I was going to mention that in my own post, as that is the way I originally got rid of my snail problem, I think I posted the same response in another thread on eradicating snails on the old forum,its a pian in the ass but anyways
yeah boiling everything including substrate,ornaments,heaters,powerheads everything except your fish, will eradicate the snails and eggs 100% - but only dunk the heaters,powerheads in for a short period of time as it will erm, wreck em if you boil the guts out of em.
Also the filter will need to be completely cleaned out (as they like to congregate there) and thouroughly clean the inside of the tank too.
as I said, its a pain in the ass, but tis the only chemical free way to get rid of em for good.

[Rod54]

The other alternative is to learn to love them??

New snails can be a problem...introducing parasites/etc....but if snails are in your tank they will clean up uneaten food and I've been told that bacteria that grows on their waste is beneficial ???

They are particularly good in tanks where you are raising fry.

[Dyce]

I have yet to kill all my snails in my bristlenose talk  :x .

If I put a few clown's in there will they hurt the bristlenose as the tank bottom is a bit crowded as is.

nah they will eat around the bristlenose

[Robert1964]

Im in cichlids for only few years. Ive been to see many breeders and i found that there is never one solution to a problem. Clownies may be one solution but what about a trap for snails???    I have seen  once A trap for sails made out of small coca cola botle. The idea is to use botle with a long neck and im not sure about the bite,  BUT it works I asure you....


Ive attached small pic. of the idea. Try that.

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Robert
Good luck

[Robert1964]

The only problem with that is if the snails will like it , you will have to empty that trap very often.    ?   Make the trap out of bigger botle  that may help.



Robert

[Bubblesx4]

Don't forget BGK's for getting rid of snails they just love them. But be aware Loaches and BGK's will eat anything smaller than they are, even baby B/nose.

[jason]

An update on my snail problem. Snails 1 clown loaches 0. The clown loaches  lasted nearly a week but then i noticed 1 swimming around in my venustas mouth :?. So they are no more. The venustas leaves the small bristlnose alone which were half the size of the clownys but those orange and black stripes must have been just to tempting. Will have to try the snail trap.

[nemo1981]

:o  8O  damn!

[Alan Caboolture]

50 + years of fish keeping,,,,the onlly cure for cone snail infestations is boil everything !   Believe me, they are totally immume to every other 'cure', chemical or biological.

Alan.

[aloosh]

Yep I agree with Alan,

I even tried chlorine on them and they still survived.
These snails are really quite ressistant to chemicals that it frustrated me.

It wasn't until I boiled them is when I saw results.

I have clowns now as well though and they do a great job.

I am thinking if there was an all out nuclear world war I know one species that will survive and it's this snail.

Cheers
Ali