Re: [RML] Snails

Wright Huntley (huntley1 at home.com)
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:24:44 -0700

PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Dave Wilson wrote:
>
> > Snails, does anybody know how to kill snails without killing the fish or
> > the plants.
>
> You can kill them on plants with alum (aluminium sulphate if I remember
> correctly). I can't remember what dosage, but it was a ten minute dip. That
> would mean cleaning out the ponds though..... Most commercial anti snail
> stuff I have seen is copper based, which is not nice to either fish or plants
> typically.

I've had a lot of problems with the little egg-eating monsters in my tanks.

Recently, I have seen some modest, if not 100%, improvement with a
"biological cure." I'm using clown loaches. Some other loaches (zebra?) have
an even better rep for eating snails and leaving plants alone.

I hear that most puffers are also eager snail eaters. Mollies and others
will gradually kill all ramshorn and pond snails, but find the trumpet
snails just too hard to crack. The loaches audibly overcome that problem --
CRUNCH! (^_^)

Wright

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