It's a Snail Trap! An Easy Way to Get Rid of Aquarium Snails
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2021
- Hello Everyone,
In this video we take a look at a snail trap that has been working pretty well for us!
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If you are interested in purchasing this snail trap here is an Amazon Affiliate Link: amzn.to/3x2JuDK (note: you can choose a larger size as well).
Snail Trap Food: amzn.to/3wWL61W
Check out our cool new merch here! www.primetimeaquatics.com/merch
If you want more unique ideas check out my Instagram: @thesmallscape
If you want to see some of my more traditional aquascapes check out
Aquascapes by Joanna at Prime Time Aquatics: ua-cam.com/channels/YVN7EN0ALL6CE4U7NpMUTA.html
I've got 3 it doesn't work
I love the Admiral Ackbar reference!
Haha! Glad you enjoyed!
I enjoy my snails. But this is still a neat contraption. Great vid!
Than you can just catch them to say hi! 😆
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!
Oh those fishies ....
I need one for catching feeder snails for my puffers
Omg - YESSSSS!!! 👍👍👍👍
Someday I hope to have pea puffers, and I will have to keep this in mind.
Got a snail catcher from Aquarium Coop. This is how I am slooowly getting my husband into the hobby. He enjoys snatching snail for the puffs! bwah ha ha
+10 for the thumbnail!
Lol! Jason did great 😊
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!
Thank you for watching every week, that means a lot! At some point, I will get together a nano cleaning video with my nano 🧼 artillery! ☺️
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!
I’ve even tried the cucumber 🥒- no luck! I will try a different veg maybe. ☺️
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!
Oh, don’t you hate that! Wishing you luck!
That looks great! I like having a few around for cleanup but they get out of control too quickly!
Just ordered! My wife and I got a pea puffer to feed it the snails, but we need a larger method of removal.
For me this would just be a fancy snail feeder! Haha I love snails 🐌
Lol! Yes! You could use it for treats. 💙
Needed this right now. These bladder snails are making me crazy. Thank you!!
These are great traps, I've got a couple in storage! Great for extracting snails to feed to puffer tanks. Thanks for sharing Joanna!
Yes! Exactly! Woohoo!!
Happy Saturday Joanna. Thankyou for this video. It’s exactly what I need. Great timing. Sincerely, Marty Borst
This looks really useful. 😊 Thanks
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.
Happy weekend !!! I really need this !
Thank you. I’m going to give this a try.
Good luck!! 🍀👍
Going to give this a try. Like my snails…but not so many😁
Well said. I concur. ☺️
I wish this had been around about 15 years ago. Man did I have some pest snail problems back then.
Thanks Joanna 💚🐌 I've been busy packing and getting my fish settled in totes!! See you guys soon 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Hi Mary Paige!! Best of luck to you and and your fish!!! 💙🙏 🐠 🙏 💙
Good Morning
I have this product. It really works. I don't mind ramshorn snails but the trumpet snails drive me crazy. Liked👍
As always, thank you, I'm hooked and getting it today
Yay! ☺️ Hope it serves you well! 🙏👍
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.
Yes it does!! Helps a ton!
What an excellent idea. Super!!!!!!!
Hi Tom! ☺️
Very cool
1st 😁👍 Notification squad 😊 Snails can be good but also bad 😆 i did a species profile on Emperor Tetras 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 😊🦋😊🥳
I hope it helps out! ☺️
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 😎
Hi Bonnie! That’s a terrible story. I hope you have a lovely weekend too!
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. 😊
That’s nice. I love 🐌 in small quantities too!!
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!
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.
Super!!!😎👍
I just got this, life saver
Nifty gadget. 👍🏻 If needed in the future I would give it a try! Hope you are having a great weekend Joanna! 😊
Oh hello - yikes - and here we are at almost another weekend! Yahoo!!
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 😍
I totally agree! It does look CUTE!! 😆
Awesome I have to many truphet snails....thank you for the video
I hear ya. Good luck!
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. 👍📺😎
Oh yes!! Great thought! Lol - Bobbing for snails!!
For the algorithm!!
🤭😆🙌
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.
Exactly! Crunch crunch.
I’m pretty sure that I have the same trap, and I like it a lot.
Really?! Sweet! An ‘official’ review! 🙌
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.
It's a trap! 🤣 I'm actually setting up my Star Wars Aquarium soon!
Lol! ☺️Are you?! That’s AWESOME!!!
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.
Oh wow - glad you’ve had success with it! Yay! ☺️
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It's a snail snare!!! 🐌😁
😂😂 thanks for the literal lol, Norf!
@@thesmallscape 😂👍🏾
Thank you so much for posting. I love your videos! Do you think this would be contraindicated in a shrimp tank?
Actually - this one would probably work ok for shrimp since they would just hop off or you could scootch them off first ☺️
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 🤓
Lol - and um - yikes! Happy Thursday! Would you know that I have NEVER seen a garden snail 🐌?!? Ever!
They can do quite a bit of damage especially to hosta’s, but still cool to have in the garden 🤗
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.
Ya! That’s part of the problem. Plus those little pieces...
Yoyo loaches also work, they eat snails
What do you do after catching them? Put them in the tanks in the next room?
Ya. Put them in Jason’s tanks. Haha!
@@thesmallscape 🤣
I found the snails would not touch the trap with the supplied food , a slice of cumber worked wonders .
Neat idea 💡 Q: what do you do with the little buggers after you catch them ? 🤔
Depends on your situation.
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.
Nice! I may try! Cucumber did nothing for me. ☺️
You can just throw the snails in the trash?
Which fish are those at 1:39? They’re so curious and cute!
What do you do with the fishing line it comes with though
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
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.
I think a good 2 days!
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?
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?
I love my little pest snails, but this is would be great if they ever get too out of control.
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. 🤣
Awww!!! I love those names!!!
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
Bait alternatives? Dyi bait?
Hmm...interesting idea....🧐😊
How do they not crawl back out? Or do you need to empty it often to catch them?
Empty it often ☺️
Thank you! I've now reset my tank twice and they just keep coming back :-(
Thank you for this! I bought one online and it didn't come with instructions 😅
Oh great! So glad to hear it ☺️
Do you just rinse them off?
Yup! Or shake them off. ☺️
Show us how you get it out the snails
Im confused... How does it trap them? Cant they just slither off when they have finished eating?
I understand your confusion, it doesn’t actually trap them - just draws them onto the tray and they hang out there. Then you just pull out the trap, shake them off and place back in there, etc. ☺️
It doesn’t truly ‘trap’ them, it just makes them crawl into something easier to remove quickly. You could even attach a string to it possibly? Also I don’t think they’re able to access to food too easily.
@@thesmallscape you replied!! Yay!!!!! Ok i get it now! Still gonna buy one thanks!! Great help!! 👍🏻
Woohoo!! ☺️
Yes. ☺️
Okay they are in the trap now what do I do?
Hi! I just remove the whole trap and shake them off elsewhere. And then repeat. These traps don’t remove them completely, I just find it helps to contain the population. ☺️
I tried one like this. It had trouble sinking and my guppies kept trying to get the food. I just went with assassin snails.
Oh really? This one sinks great - and kind of a food puzzle 🧩 for the fish.
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
Hmmm...now that’s an interesting question.. 🤔
@@thesmallscape I stayed up all night and caught hem one by one lol
@@jeromiedorrance9403 😭 I feel you man, I got too excited to see live bearers so of course I got two females and a male.. now I'm trying to reclaim my tank after going through a total hostile takeover from the guppy fry.
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
ua-cam.com/video/JLw9c9Q-Evo/v-deo.html
But they don't seem to be making them any more. I have see some diy versions on UA-cam but I still like the Sera version best.
Their is an alternative to the Sera that is similar the JBL Limcollect aquarium snail trap
Yes! We’ve had the sera. You can still find but pricier. ☺️🐌
Will my Amaño Shrimp 🦐 go in there? 🤔
Hi! Amano? I don’t believe so, I don’t think the openings are large enough.
@@thesmallscape yes amano
Mine are from Honduras 🇭🇳 like my wife apparently 😂
Just use a piece of vegetable; cucumber, lettuce
Ah yes trumpet snails, good for turning over substrate but multiply grazily fasy.
Ya. Eww.
I have those same snails. I hate em 😒
They’re gross. Yuck. I hate em too!
@@thesmallscape what are they? To me they are the real and true pest snails. And they swarm when I’m trying to feed my shrimp.
It doesn't work
No? I’m sorry to hear it didn’t work so well in your tank.