Snail Eating Machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nick]

out of the tap!! thats just too wierd lol, its not safe to drink water any more :( lol

[raycam01_au]

I hate snails with a vengance, and unfortunately when buying some fish recently (Shellies) they came with shells



thats how i got em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nearly all gone :) excellent

[nick]

how the hell can they come with fish?? im so confused with that, they come from tap water and come with fish that u buy....weird

[raycam01_au]

hahahahaha


hey mate, i bought some shellies that were supplied with their homes (shells) unfortunately the snails were in the shells also, so the gentleman that sold them to me had snails in his tanks :)
thats how they come to me

hope that helps :)

[nick]

ph when u sed shellies i thought u ment fish.....my tank has snails :( dam things, wont be there for long, im gunna get some clowns :)

[Rod54]

Interesting...

I have Malaysian trumpet snails in all my tanks...

>They don't eat plants
>They don't get bigger than about 15mm
>They eat left over food
>They stir up the gravel
>They breed like rabbits but I just remove a few from time to time

If you have to remove excess
>fish
>plants
>snails....on a regular basis from your tanks
they're healthy!

[raycam01_au]

Mate i'm gunna pull all me little snails out and bring em to ya :),    i must have been attacked or stalked as a child by some killer snails or i have obssessive compulsive behaviour towards them, cause i lie awake at night thinking how i am gunna kill em  :evil:  if they had legs i would pull em off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are only in a 4 x 20 x30 display tank i have, and i am about 2 weeks away from stripping and bleaching the entire tank!!!!!!

HELP ME ROD I JUSS CANT HANDLE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

by the way is your surname pick??

Ray

[Rod54]

[quote:a1c54c9b1e="raycam01_au"]Mate i'm gunna pull all me little snails out and bring em to ya :),    i must have been attacked or stalked as a child by some killer snails or i have obssessive compulsive behaviour towards them, cause i lie awake at night thinking how i am gunna kill em  :evil:  if they had legs i would pull em off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are only in a 4 x 20 x30 display tank i have, and i am about 2 weeks away from stripping and bleaching the entire tank!!!!!!

HELP ME ROD I JUSS CANT HANDLE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

by the way is your surname pick??

Ray[/quote:a1c54c9b1e]

LOL

Just learn to love them....They aren't hurting anything! :lol:

[braddo]

Ok time to put my 2 bobs worth on this little debate I don't mind the snails in fact I have them in the majority of my tanks especially caontaining fry as they eat left over food and their waste produces bacteria and micro organisms that the fry eat to vary their diet a bit from time to time I will do a snail kull but only when they get out of hand. The other plus is the cone snails actually sift through the substrate and stir it up therefore no more bad spots in the substrate. They don't eat the eggs of fish as they are in with my bn's and I get huge batches out. So the only problem is unsightly or aesthetic problems.

[efc]

ok I think it is also time to add my experience with the evil Malaysian cone snails.
Ok first they invade the tank, literally fill every square inch of the tank. Then they climb into the filters, wrecking the impellors of both my otto power heads and ehiem 2028 canister filter, great that only cost me $100, i will clean the tank out in the next few weeks, no worries.
Then when I strip my frontosa female I find that while picking up the eggs she also scooped up a snail, well that means that while later brooding, the sharp snail shell has punctured all the frontosa eggs and has destroyed 40+ eggs, (estimating on average spawns)!!! Well that was the final straw.
Drain the tank fill with bleach and water and now we are free of snails.

Rod54 snails SH*T me off!

[raycam01_au]

Rod and Brad,
Fellow snail lovers i bow to your undying loyalty to these little creatures! I have tried to sit down in front of the tank and think nice things about these little %#%$%$#$^$^&(*^^%^%^ i looked at the nice mystery snails and are quite fond of those, but these little brown mongrels are killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the linni miss, i destroy by squishing them against the glass and watch them get eaten, my wife is alittle worried as now i sit here for hours and talk to myself on how and what i will do to them iffen i catch em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! talk will be bleached in 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cant take it anymore, i have most of the shells and rocks etc in the kitchen as we speak, all undergoing the boiling trick, much again to my wifes disgust!!!!!!!! she thought i was cooking dinner,,,,, I said darling mini escargo,,,,,,but she did not see the funny side of it,,,,,,,,,, i also have them on little toothpicks outside the tanks (DEAD) so all their friends can see them, and they will know their fate
mooohahahahahahahahahahahahahaha  :evil:

[raycam01_au]

Love ya form dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nick]

lol @ raycam, u r going crazy...haha, sounds like they are a real pest aye

[Savage_roo]

I have tanks full of the thingsI have 2 clowns and 3 yoyos i move around
But even thay carn't keep up so its time for 1 more thing a foot of copper pipe
and if that don't work i will pull all the stuff out of the tanks and hit them with it
Its going to be a blood bath lol

Andrew

[nick]

screw the copper bar.....a lead bar...lol