the problem is when keeping subtropical fish that need a colder seasonal period. This fish are now in my unheated fishroom downstears (18 degrees). The pond snails thrive in this temperature, but the assassins are not doing very well, so i'm looking for another solution...
Same, when I first got them I had a few, then my 20 and 14 became infested.. Tore the whole 20 gallon down and started over, now looking to get them out of my 14 lol but in simpler ways
@@colteng9721 mysterys should be quite easy to get rid of with plain ole Manuel removal, they require both a male and female snail to reproduce and lay egg coccoons above the water line which stand out
I had a recent boom of bladder snails, I had a few rams horn and mystery snails. After the bladder snails popped up they have absolutely been eating my stem plants, but only at the base, I have watched them do it. They eat the entire outside of the stem until it’s only a thin clear strand.
I have about 20 of them in my tank and they keep multiplying. I really need to get rid of them, they are taking over my aquarium like Russia!! Just one would be perfect but not 20 lol
Thanks Cory, this was very good information and timely. For the last couple years I have dealt with a lot of rams horn snails and bladder snails and there are a few people who have received snails from me because mine are producing very well due to lax maintenance, over feeding and receiving them in on plants. I really appreciate your three minute Thursdays I think they are a awesome series!
Thank you! I adopted a big ole tank a month ago, had three snails, woke up to over 50 two days ago, and the pop keeps growing, mini freak out... Glad I discovered Aquarium Co-op!
Great video! When I worked at a fish store, we had a bit of a population explosion of the small pest snails. So the owner put one larger comet goldfish in each tank. We didn't have saltwater, just freshwater, and those goldfish ate up most of the snails in each tank. Here at home, my mystery snail has reproduced, but it's very little so after a year I have one large and 3 baby mystery snails. I divided them into our other tanks. Mom had a bit of a panic when she saw the baby snail I put in her tank, so I had to explain that as long as we kept doing what we're doing, we shouldn't have a ton of them and that they're beneficial. She now is very fond of her snail and freaks out if she can't find it or thinks it's dead! She used to hate and fear them and now she's attached to hers 😂 It was from one of your other videos that I learned more about snails. Honestly your videos have been so important to me and learning about this hobby I love so much! I really enjoy these new three-minute-thursday videos!
This advice. Don't try to nuke the pop, just try and cut back the reason the pop thrives. I love this channel so much! Been watching all your videos all day. Such good content. Thank YOU!
New format is clean sure you will get use to it. Snails are a great addition in the tank they are the perfect indicators as to what's going on in a tank.
This advice right here is one of the many reasons why I would say Cory is the best expert on fish keeping today. Having dealt with snails in 4 of my aquariums successfully, I have to say Cory's advice works wonderfully.
My 10 gal fish tank received too much sunlight this past winter due to the angle of the sun's rays. 70% of it greened out with algae. Along with that, the handful of snails that were in there proliferated into hundreds. These guys then cleaned up the tank. I've crystal clear glass and crystal clear water now thanks to these little guys and gals. I scoop a dozen of them out every other day and feed it to the 2 huge common goldfish I have in my 75 gal fish tank. This latter soon to play a role in the mini-aquaponics raft bed for growing lettuce. It's a mini-circle of life.
These Thursday videos are awesome. Great way to touch on a subject and get a bit of detail without waiting for hours of content. Very focused. Great job guys, I see plenty of these in the future.
Thanks, Cory, for teaching me that snails are not the enemy and how to control their populations. I also found a great benefit of having pond snails. My angelfish will eat smashed snails off my finger. It's fun!
I can never seem to find any aquarium store that can agree on dojo and kuhli loaches haha. I just bought four Kuhlis and was told they’d hoover bladder snails, been almost a week and still seeing lots of new babies and egg sacs popping up. Then you say Dojo loaches are on the shy side, but the store I go to has a tank of Dojo’s that come right up to your hand and will eat food right out of it. I like them because they defy expectations, mine are super active in the daytime and give my cat a lot of entertainment
Thanks Cory . I got mini ramshorn snails and they definetly eating living healthy leaves . I wish i could send a pic but there is no doubt they are eating a leaf or rather eat holes in them Can i put a yoyo loach in a 8 gallon tank just to wipe them out
I agree with you Cory in past videos, snails are the most beneficial organism you really can have in a tank, especially a planted or shrimp tank, I love snails, especially pink ramshorns
@@erikanucci5737 They only reproduce to the amount of food that's available, so if that is a problem, the owner is most likely overfeeding to begin with.
These 3 minute Thursdays are a great idea. I like Real Fish Talk, but they're real long so I only get to watch them when I have a block of time like for a podcast or something. Also, good example of what you're talking about with maintenance, the malaysian trumpet snails I got from aquarium coop are reproducing like crazy in my guppy fry tank (to where they're almost outnumbering the guppy fry) because it's just a sponge filter and a bunch of java moss, while in my other tanks with actual HOB and canister filters and without algae or a lot of detritus they don't seem to have reproduced at all or very little (like one group of young in the last 3 months).
Corey I hate to disagree with you, but, the other day I actually saw one of the snails that came in on some plants eating my S.repens right down to the base of the plant just the way the garden snails do in my garden. I did not believe they ate plants either but I sat there and watched him chop it right off chowing down like there was no tomorrow so I have to tell you I pulled out all The snails that came in on plants that I could find And tossed them. Then I noticed they had done quite a lot of damage on the S repens I had purchased. Just thought I should give you a heads up on that. I could not believe what I was seeing But that little booger was going to town.
Snails will no doubt eat a dying plant. I personally have never had a problem with snails eating healthy plants. I actively run over 100 tanks filled with plants. We actively use snails to eat algae and help the conversion process of plants as well. So while I can't speak for every snail in every situation for each hobbyist. As someone who makes their living off plants, we actively use snails in our operation. There are obvious plant eaters like columbian snails, tylonessian rabbit snails, spixi snails etc.
Aquarium Co-Op ; Corey thanks for answering. I don’t know what kind of 🐌 snails they are but I have to say again they were eating perfectly healthy vibrant S repens plants. I had never seen them do such a thing before myself as I have been in the Hobby off and on since the late 50s. Wish I had the water you guys have out there in Washington I live in Missouri now and the water is super hard high pH. Very difficult to deal with especially with acid loving tetras.
thanks rory for this . the snails iv counted are about 20 . iv 200 litre tank with fish . the tank is maintain. iv also got baby fish their to . its a nice set up . a friendly tank of fish .its balanced its self out. so snails are not bad .
I’ve had a extreme problem with bladder snails. I rememmber one huge snail that hitchiked on a plant i bought in the store. I didnt want to get rid of him because i thought that it cant reproduce since he (or she) doesnt have a tankmate. 7 days later i had ton of snails that kept clogging my filter. I was cleaning clusters of eggs on glass, then they would lay eggs under leaves of plants so it got almost imposible to remove eggs from aquarium. I thought there is ton of food for them so i bought littile albino pleco. I guess pleco ate all the food and bladder snails started dying really fast. Whats really strange is that the only big snails died leaving a ton of shells that turned white, looking like littile seashells. Since then ive never noticed the snails grow bigger than 3-4mm but they keep reproducing and living in small numbers
I've had ramshorn snails in my planted community for a year or more now I didn't mind them at first, but I noticed little nibbles out of plant leaves, the snails are the only thing in the aquarium that could be nibbling on the plants. I only feed my fish sparingly and I expected the snails to be a benefit to my mini ecosystem aka aquarium. Now I have yo-yo loaches that are slowly eating the snails this is in a tank that is about 47 gallons. In my Nano aquarium which is about 5 gallons putting loaches in to eat the snails is not a option, personally I would try my hardest to stay away from snails in future even though I only feed my Nano tank about 3 times per week the snails population still increases and I'm fighting a losing battle trying to get rid of them. It's a hard no from me on snails.
@@grill6411 not true! I bought a fish tank off marketplace, when we got there we started talking to the guy and he has a pufferfish that eats them. We now sell him pond snails all the time! :)
Key point in this video is why do you want to get rid of snails? Best point is to figure out how limit snails because they will work wonders if you let them, Awesome video Cory thanks for sharing
Great informative video again Cory! I love the quality! It looks like you're talking to me in real life. I love snails, and my puffer does too! Keep up the good work and thumbs up!
Just got three fish yesterday, woke up today and there was a snail on the wall of my tank. The imagine of the tank with 10000 snails popped into my mind and I want him out. Lol.
Funny I found this video because we are 100% the reason our tank has some snails is because of the plants we got from the co-op :). Just discovered a couple babies roaming around this weekend. My kids are so excited. I was always taught that snails in your tank wasn't a bad thing as long as you didn't have a thousand of them
Well said. I like snails. My apisto macs and red hump geos love to chow on them so I maintain a good number in stock. They also help my otos in the algae department so I would never get rid of them.
Had a planted tank for over 10 years, and almost never changed the water or vacuumed the gravel. One day, I decided to 86 about half of the overgrowth and change the water. A month later there were THOUSANDS of snails, which overwhelmed my bio filter and killed EVERYTHING in the tank. One week post crash, starting again with empty tank. :(
I put a single yoyo loach in a 20 gal that had a TON of pond snails and that little guy decimated the snail population in 1 weekend. Pretty cool to watch.
A long time ago after seeing your snail hat I decided I wanted a bunch of snails lol to help my planted tank.... (first planted tank) so I Went to petsmart and the lady let me collect as many mts I could get for free... put about 50 in , let an auto feeder run on the tank didn’t pay much attention at night I had a 55 gallon that was snails stacked on snails. Walls of snails...gravel was snails as I had sand this was an issue...took off auto feeder started having water quality’s issues from the snails. So I got a school of 5 gold zebra loaches took about a 3 months they tripled in size and im down to about mostly only baby snails left at this point from idk how many thousands adults. My sand is now empty shells... on the plus side I got some super cool loaches that have bursting belly’s 24/7 exactly like a pregnant guppie about to burst and they still steal all my bloodworms from my angels and guppies.
I had a terrible infestation of trumpets Tails. Had no idea until I came home in the middle of the night turn the kitchen light on and looked at the tank they were all over. Assassin snails are tearing their asses up right now big time. However, when they're done doing their job I'm going to re-home them or give them away for free before they get hungry and get my nerites. The nerites are much bigger so apparently that's kind of discouraging for the Assassin Snail but if they get hungry enough they'll team-up. If you ever read this Corey is there any reason you didn't suggest the Assassin Snail?
I got a new plant about a month ago and just saw 2 snails in the tank. I got rid of the smaller one to make sure it wasn't a worm or something because it was so tiny. But today I saw one with a hard shell and everything! about the size of a small pea. How I missed it all this time, I don't know, but I'm gunna keep him. :)
I found a snail in my tank after i ordered a plant from aquarium co-op. The snail was so tiny it was hard to find at first, but only 2 weeks later the snail quadrupled in size. And its fast! Im keeping my eye on it.
Is there a worm or snail without shell ? They are about 1/4 inch long, clear to whiteish color. Moving up and down the glass. I think they have antenna. Never seen them before. Thanks.
thank you cory, ive been seeing lots of snails in my tank and have been stressing like crazy because of my friends and such who say they are a terror. this helps a lot!
I recently got frogbit in my 10 gallon divided betta tank and bladder snails came with them. dozens of eggs hatched from them and now I've got so many tiny snails. I don't think my plakat is happy about it.
Great video! I especially appreciate you not editing every little hiccup in your transcript like some we all know, and even better that its unscripted! A++
Aquarium Co-Op its right... UA-camrs get full of themselves, and suddenly think they're master video producers... it all goes to hell from there. (like a few in our hobby!) Keep up the non-edited natural conversation, please & thank you! 😁
Okay look I need help and can't find s video on this. I have a newer tank about 4 weeks old. The fish store swore I could condition and use bacterial starter then just add fish after a good water test. I think that's wrong, I've had a couple of bacterial blooms occur. I now have 9 mollies, an amano shrimp and a bamboo shrimp in a 29g tank. Here's the thing, I keep buying snails and they keep dying almost instantly. Like, I'll acclimate for nearly 30 minutes in some cases, add the snails and they stop moving only occasionally acting like they're coughing a few times before they stop moving altogether. Because they can cause ammonia spikes, my wife keeps throwing them out even though they don't stink. I think she's just too paranoid and they're hibernating but then I've bought plants where I saw bladder snails on them a couple weeks ago and it seems like even pest snails can't make it in my tank. My GH and KH are pretty high and we did have the temp a little low because the thermometer was faulty. Just don't get why this wouldn't work out for us, I was hoping for some kind of snails.
I'm dealing with a ramshorn infestation in a tank that already has nerites. I just pluck them out with tweezers. I know that's going to take a while but the number is already decreasing.
Had a snail problem in my 20 gallon. Thousands of them. Bought a plant. Did not rinse and bleach it before putting it in tank and one little snail that appeared on the plant turned into thousands. Tried a ton of ways to get rid of them. Finally, exchanged my fish (except my corys) for five pea puffers (Had to get rid of my fish because pea puffers will attack most fish). After three months all the snails were dead (thousands of empty shells on the substrate) but now I had a huge algae problem because no more snails to eat the algae… Had to treat that. Tried to catch the pea puffers so I could bring back “regular” fish. One male pea puffer refused to be caught. It would dodge the net and hide in my plants. Stayed like that for a month. Finally caught the little sob and exchanged him… Now… two months later… the snails are back! Thousands of them… again. 😐
Hey great video! I’m about 8 months into the aquarium world and have learned a lot from your channel. What’s a good type of loach that stays around the 6” size that I could use to get rid of snails? 135 gal American cichlid tank, probably 100 (trumpet?) snails
I bought some Red Ramshorn snails a couple of weeks ago but i'm struggling to keep them. I bought 20 but now i can only see about 5 in the tank. I don't know if they are just hiding in the plants maybe? People say the breed rapidly but I haven't seen any eggs in my tank yet which is dissapointing.
I know its a bit brutal but can i collect them, crush them and feed to fish that otherwise could not eat them when they are in the shell? Guppys seem to eat them this way but is it good for them?
Wait... clown loaches eat snails? I had no idea. What about tiger barbs? Cause I was considering them as my main schooling fish & heard that the clown loaches get along well with them when they're schooled together. At the same time, I intend to get some blue ramshorn snails. Don't judge my color palette, just wondering if the snails will be safe around the barbs...
Ive got about 500 bladder snails in my 6 gallon tank, I added 2 assassin snails about 2 weeks ago and also a pea puffer a week ago. The assassin snails havent really moved much and i havent seen the pea puffer eat any. So far the snail population is still growing. Any suggestions? Love the videos man. Thanks.
I need some advice. Once I've gotten the snails out of my tank, what do I do with them? I'm pretty much a pacifist when it comes to this kinda stuff, I don't have the heart to kill them. I can't even clean my tank atm because I'm afraid I'll accidentally crush or wipe away some baby snails. I'm trying to get them our, lure them onto some cucumber and take them out. When they're out though, what next? I won't kill them, not willingly. Can I release them into the wild? There's a few ponds around here.
I got bladder snails (These were NOT intentionally added, and I thought they were cute at first), cory's, and shrimp.. Which means a detrivore diet in the tank, so 'starving' the hermaphrodite snails from hell into a low population.. that would just mess with my entire tank, and they're abundant enough to be bothering my shrimp, so while I agree that a few adult snails are good.. of damn near any OTHER species at least, I can't keep everything that finds it's way into my tank, in my tank long term. What I may do is keep a population somewhere as a treat for the Khuli loaches that arrive tomorrow.
I just found one very small snail and It was an unpleasant surprise. I don't know what to do though I'm not taking it out of the tank to die as that is cruel, none of my fish are going to eat it (tetras and small shrimps) ..idk. I have a garden pond would the snails survive in that?
Ok I need help! I have a flower horn and like a million snails in the tank. He’s alone and will not eat them. I tried cleaning them out but they keep coming back like wild fire. I think am going to have to move him out and get rid of them. What solutions will work to get rid of them?
Hey Cory, I am currently Spawning Pygmy Corys and I was curious if snails would eat the eggs? I have one big nerite snail and a bunch of pond/pest snails.
Hi, I got 2 clown loaches, 5 polka dot and 3 hill stream loaches. 1 rainbow tail shark, 13 Buenos Aires tetras and 5 fully grown Pictus. 2 days ago I dropped 2 snails as treat and Yet they still crawling around. What happened ? Why are they still alive? Why my loaches don’t eat that ?
I put an injured pond goldfish (which then picked up a fungus infection) in a planted recovery/treatment tank which has been overrun by small pest snails. After around 2-3 days of treatment he started gobbling up the snails and is looking much livelier :)
I have an albino bristlenose pleco and I used to have an algae problem so i added a few snails..... bad idea. Because now everywhere there's snails. I had to start adding algae waffers because i was worried that my pleco isn't getting the food it needs now, but the snails are eating the waffers instead. What should i do?
Another fish that is native to North America is a "Red Ear Sun Fish". I would not recommend them in most aquariums but for ponds. A nick name for them is "Shell Cracker" They love snails.
CORY!! I have 3 mystery snails, one keeps latching on to the other and I’m assuming they’re mating. One is the size of a golf ball, the “latcher” is nickel sized.. I’m wondering if I should separate them or just let them get groovy?! Not really trying to have snail babies but I have no problem just removing eggs. My concern is more like “is my snail being harassed by the other?” Thank you so much I love abs appreciate your channel and content so much! You’re amazing! 💪🔥🐟🐠🐡
Got me 3 mystery snails. Let's just say it's not 3 anymore, there's like 30 smaller ones (currently ~1cm in diameter), also got some pond snails and some sort of ramshorn snails (at least 5) with plants. I'm a big snail fan since they are simply a cleanup crew, I don't mind them at all. Once the population gets out of control I know I've fed too much, hence they'll help me keep nitrates under control. Snails are awesome, and after watching how assassin snails take down other snails those wouldn't be an option for me anymore (they basically rasp the other snail down bite for bite, no venom or anything, what a way to go).
I added yoyo loaches and can't see any snails now but plant leaves are still getting rotten.. Should I cut them off or wait for them to shed themselves ?
Hi Cory. I know this is not on the topic right now. I bought a tank and inherited the fish that were in it and I'm struggling with the water being cloudy and my Jack Dempsey seems as though he is gasping for breath at this very moment. I've asked around even my local aquarium professionals. I'm really not sure what to do I followed what they recommended. It seems to be getting worse. My water levels are off the charts.
Ive done two partial water changes. The water is cloudy, I added amonia remover in hopes to lower amonia. I retsted my nitrites are low and nitrates are good...im going to stop by the fish store and add some more dr.tims bacteria to the tank to kind of boost bacteria...
I have a gaggle of bladder snail babies and a few bigger ones. I don’t want to use chemicals because I have a few mystery baby snails mixed in as well 🤦♀️ Anyway if I place a trap or remove manually how do you quickly kill the snails. I mean I don’t even want to do it but I don’t want the bladder snails. 😫😫😫
I'm trying to figure out where they are coming from. I got the initially on some plants I ordered. I kill them constantly and I've never seen any bigger than a grain of rice, but there are constantly small, recently hatched snails. So how big do they have to be to reproduce? I have one big mystery snail in my nano tank - I crush the babies with the tweezers and hope that the mystery is eating them. It's been more than a month since my tanks got infected so surely all the eggs must have hatched by now.
When I was new to the hobby I had a pond snail problem so I just bought a handful of assassin snails and they cleared out the tank in a couple weeks. But now I honestly don’t care about snails. They are great at cleaning up the tank. And it’s actually funny how the biggest and brightest fish gets about half a second of notice from guest before somebody says oh cool a snail lol
Heyyy thanks for this video sooo informative. . I want to get rid of my snails because i thought they it plants. . Now i know they are not and they can help me. . But is it ok to my aquaruim (breeding tank) swordtail
Hi! I’m one of those people that accidentally brought home a new plant and found snails a few weeks later. 😅 They’re really really tiny, not even an inch yet, and VERY translucent, with a brown tip at the tip of the shell that’s not translucent. The shell itself swirls like a cone, but it’s not a long pointy cone. It points outward like a trumpet snail, but not as much, kind of round? They have tiny antenas and have been hanging mostly on the plants. Hope you can help me... I need to clean my tank today and if I dump them in my yard, I’m afraid I’ll accidentally have released some live ones into the ecosystem. An ecosystem they shouldn’t be in.
I have a problem, i was told snails were completely detrimental to my tank and got a tiger botia to eliminate them. I had about 7 snails and he has already eaten 2 at least. thing is after doing more research i found that they might actually be beneficial in the small numbers i had them. So is there a way to keep the leach from eating the ones i have left?
Damn I have 2 adult snails that are much bigger, will it matter or are they done for also? I was afraid things might get out of control as I was basically spooked by everyone about it, but after reading up i had pretty good control on them it seemed. My weekly maintenance seemed to go much smoother since they appeared too which is a shame,
You can't get 100% rid of them. But if you want to keep the numbers low...just drop a slice of cucumber. Wait until they swarm it and remove it and repeat daily. You can bring the number down and clean your tank as well of course. Bettas can learn to eat snails too!
@Ms. Babette Benjamin I held one by the shell with some tongs. My betta curiously kept swimming around it and eventually went for the fleshy part. Later I saw my betta develop and appetite for them. They love them! Just make sure you don't have an infestation where your betta can over feed. Keep numbers low first.
I have a quick question, this doesn't have anything to do with this video but, what are your thoughts on purchasing an aquarium kit from PetSmart for my first aquarium? Going small my first time out, like a 10 or 20 gallon.....
i have so many snails in my old fish tank and we had a real plant in that tank but i have a plastic plant in my new tank but the snails are still finding their way in what do i do?
First of all I am new to real plants. I ordered a banana plant and now I have baby snails and i would like to get rid of them. I did soak my plant in the aquarium water for a day, I had cleaned my tank (this was the leftover water) and I didn't see any snails so I put the plant in my tank and the next day I see this thing on my glass! And today I saw two more, how many am I gonna see out of this plant? Help!
I don't know what the heck is in my tank. I found 2. About the size of a spec. Take a grain of sand and maybe cut it in half. That small! But there were trails around them like those you find when snails eat algae and leave that trail behind. Anywho I figured they're pesky pond snail hatchlings so I went to squish them and they were pretty hard. Idk what they were.
I would love to have more snails! Lol I have one pond/bladder snail that hitch hiked into one of my tanks from a local pet shop, and he keeps my 10 gal planted tank looking gorgeous. I got all excited when I found a tiny baby snail two weeks ago, thinking I could put any newcomers in one of my other tanks. Alas, he has been gone since the day I spotted him. I do have a prefilter, so I doubt he’s in my hob filter.(I’ll have to check) I have Cory’s and white clouds in there...could a Cory eat a baby snail?
I have mystery snails that I like and don’t want to get rid of but I also have tons of pond snails that are smaller that don’t like that I want gone. How would I only get rid of those ones without reducing the number of mystery snails
I know this is off topic but I couldn’t find any videos on this. My aquarium has these tiny black eel like fish??? I can’t upload a pic. There are a lot of them on the bottom. I don’t know what they are. Any quesses?????
I have a microtank but I can't chemically get rid of them because of my lil shrimp family, and I also can't add another fish because I will overload the tank and don't have another tank to put them in (tanks are very very expensive in my country so I can't just go buy another) they came in with my shrimp and I only saw one originally which I was like, yeah it's ok but there's like five I've seen now and im not sure how much I haven't seen. I have native Australian creek shrimp and they're really sensitive and prefer a bit of uncleanliness so I can't just keep my tank super clean but I also don't want them to breed into oblivion helpppp
had a thousand pond snails, added 5 assassin snails now I have a thousand assassin snails great success!!!
That's my life as well
Get a loach, or better yet a few pea puffer fish
the problem is when keeping subtropical fish that need a colder seasonal period. This fish are now in my unheated fishroom downstears (18 degrees). The pond snails thrive in this temperature, but the assassins are not doing very well, so i'm looking for another solution...
Lol
The saying is no longer officially "breeding like rabbits." It has been changed to "breeding like Ramshorn snails."
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I agree, they are pests. Cute, but pests in your tank.
More like trumpet snails for me the assassin snails wiped out the bladder snails but the trumpet as taken over
AHAHAHHA🤣 so my mollies breed like..........
I loved my snails, when I had 3... now my 20 gallon has 50 odd mystery snails and I’m not loving them as much...
Same, when I first got them I had a few, then my 20 and 14 became infested.. Tore the whole 20 gallon down and started over, now looking to get them out of my 14 lol but in simpler ways
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@@colteng9721 mysterys should be quite easy to get rid of with plain ole Manuel removal, they require both a male and female snail to reproduce and lay egg coccoons above the water line which stand out
If there big enough and depending on local demand list them for like a buck each in Gumtree or the like
@@felix6320 yesterday I had one and now I have 4 +
I had a recent boom of bladder snails, I had a few rams horn and mystery snails. After the bladder snails popped up they have absolutely been eating my stem plants, but only at the base, I have watched them do it. They eat the entire outside of the stem until it’s only a thin clear strand.
I love the snails in my tank , I named them all Gary :)
Good joke for fallout lovers as well
No you didn't 😂😂😂
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Well, I didn’t know they could get preg withought a partner and I woke up with 15 snails....not too happy
I have about 20 of them in my tank and they keep multiplying. I really need to get rid of them, they are taking over my aquarium like Russia!! Just one would be perfect but not 20 lol
Thanks Cory, this was very good information and timely. For the last couple years I have dealt with a lot of rams horn snails and bladder snails and there are a few people who have received snails from me because mine are producing very well due to lax maintenance, over feeding and receiving them in on plants. I really appreciate your three minute Thursdays I think they are a awesome series!
Thank you! I adopted a big ole tank a month ago, had three snails, woke up to over 50 two days ago, and the pop keeps growing, mini freak out...
Glad I discovered Aquarium Co-op!
Great video! When I worked at a fish store, we had a bit of a population explosion of the small pest snails. So the owner put one larger comet goldfish in each tank. We didn't have saltwater, just freshwater, and those goldfish ate up most of the snails in each tank. Here at home, my mystery snail has reproduced, but it's very little so after a year I have one large and 3 baby mystery snails. I divided them into our other tanks. Mom had a bit of a panic when she saw the baby snail I put in her tank, so I had to explain that as long as we kept doing what we're doing, we shouldn't have a ton of them and that they're beneficial. She now is very fond of her snail and freaks out if she can't find it or thinks it's dead! She used to hate and fear them and now she's attached to hers 😂
It was from one of your other videos that I learned more about snails. Honestly your videos have been so important to me and learning about this hobby I love so much! I really enjoy these new three-minute-thursday videos!
This advice. Don't try to nuke the pop, just try and cut back the reason the pop thrives. I love this channel so much! Been watching all your videos all day. Such good content. Thank YOU!
New format is clean sure you will get use to it. Snails are a great addition in the tank they are the perfect indicators as to what's going on in a tank.
This advice right here is one of the many reasons why I would say Cory is the best expert on fish keeping today. Having dealt with snails in 4 of my aquariums successfully, I have to say Cory's advice works wonderfully.
My 10 gal fish tank received too much sunlight this past winter due to the angle of the sun's rays. 70% of it greened out with algae. Along with that, the handful of snails that were in there proliferated into hundreds. These guys then cleaned up the tank. I've crystal clear glass and crystal clear water now thanks to these little guys and gals.
I scoop a dozen of them out every other day and feed it to the 2 huge common goldfish I have in my 75 gal fish tank. This latter soon to play a role in the mini-aquaponics raft bed for growing lettuce. It's a mini-circle of life.
These Thursday videos are awesome. Great way to touch on a subject and get a bit of detail without waiting for hours of content. Very focused. Great job guys, I see plenty of these in the future.
Thanks, Cory, for teaching me that snails are not the enemy and how to control their populations. I also found a great benefit of having pond snails. My angelfish will eat smashed snails off my finger. It's fun!
I can never seem to find any aquarium store that can agree on dojo and kuhli loaches haha. I just bought four Kuhlis and was told they’d hoover bladder snails, been almost a week and still seeing lots of new babies and egg sacs popping up. Then you say Dojo loaches are on the shy side, but the store I go to has a tank of Dojo’s that come right up to your hand and will eat food right out of it. I like them because they defy expectations, mine are super active in the daytime and give my cat a lot of entertainment
Thanks Cory . I got mini ramshorn snails and they definetly eating living healthy leaves . I wish i could send a pic but there is no doubt they are eating a leaf or rather eat holes in them Can i put a yoyo loach in a 8 gallon tank just to wipe them out
I agree with you Cory in past videos, snails are the most beneficial organism you really can have in a tank, especially a planted or shrimp tank, I love snails, especially pink ramshorns
The issue with some snails is that they reproduce so much and they can get into the filter and clog it
@@erikanucci5737 They only reproduce to the amount of food that's available, so if that is a problem, the owner is most likely overfeeding to begin with.
These 3 minute Thursdays are a great idea. I like Real Fish Talk, but they're real long so I only get to watch them when I have a block of time like for a podcast or something. Also, good example of what you're talking about with maintenance, the malaysian trumpet snails I got from aquarium coop are reproducing like crazy in my guppy fry tank (to where they're almost outnumbering the guppy fry) because it's just a sponge filter and a bunch of java moss, while in my other tanks with actual HOB and canister filters and without algae or a lot of detritus they don't seem to have reproduced at all or very little (like one group of young in the last 3 months).
Corey I hate to disagree with you, but, the other day I actually saw one of the snails that came in on some plants eating my S.repens
right down to the base of the plant just the way the garden snails do in my garden. I did not believe they ate plants either but I sat there and watched him chop it right off chowing down like there was no tomorrow so I have to tell you I pulled out all The snails that came in on plants that I could find And tossed them. Then I noticed they had done quite a lot of damage on the S repens I had purchased. Just thought I should give you a heads up on that. I could not believe what I was seeing But that little booger was going to town.
Snails will no doubt eat a dying plant. I personally have never had a problem with snails eating healthy plants. I actively run over 100 tanks filled with plants. We actively use snails to eat algae and help the conversion process of plants as well. So while I can't speak for every snail in every situation for each hobbyist. As someone who makes their living off plants, we actively use snails in our operation. There are obvious plant eaters like columbian snails, tylonessian rabbit snails, spixi snails etc.
Aquarium Co-Op ; Corey thanks for answering. I don’t know what kind of 🐌 snails they are but I have to say again they were eating perfectly healthy vibrant S repens
plants. I had never seen them do such a thing before myself as I have been in the Hobby off and on since the late 50s. Wish I had the water you guys have out there in Washington I live in Missouri now and the water is super hard high pH. Very difficult to deal with especially with acid loving tetras.
thanks rory for this . the snails iv counted are about 20 . iv 200 litre tank with fish . the tank is maintain. iv also got baby fish their to . its a nice set up . a friendly tank of fish .its balanced its self out. so snails are not bad .
I’ve had a extreme problem with bladder snails.
I rememmber one huge snail that hitchiked on a plant i bought in the store. I didnt want to get rid of him because i thought that it cant reproduce since he (or she) doesnt have a tankmate.
7 days later i had ton of snails that kept clogging my filter. I was cleaning clusters of eggs on glass, then they would lay eggs under leaves of plants so it got almost imposible to remove eggs from aquarium.
I thought there is ton of food for them so i bought littile albino pleco. I guess pleco ate all the food and bladder snails started dying really fast. Whats really strange is that the only big snails died leaving a ton of shells that turned white, looking like littile seashells.
Since then ive never noticed the snails grow bigger than 3-4mm but they keep reproducing and living in small numbers
I've had ramshorn snails in my planted community for a year or more now I didn't mind them at first, but I noticed little nibbles out of plant leaves, the snails are the only thing in the aquarium that could be nibbling on the plants. I only feed my fish sparingly and I expected the snails to be a benefit to my mini ecosystem aka aquarium. Now I have yo-yo loaches that are slowly eating the snails this is in a tank that is about 47 gallons. In my Nano aquarium which is about 5 gallons putting loaches in to eat the snails is not a option, personally I would try my hardest to stay away from snails in future even though I only feed my Nano tank about 3 times per week the snails population still increases and I'm fighting a losing battle trying to get rid of them. It's a hard no from me on snails.
Sell them that’s how. Turn your problem into a business opportunity 😂
@@grill6411 not true! I bought a fish tank off marketplace, when we got there we started talking to the guy and he has a pufferfish that eats them. We now sell him pond snails all the time! :)
Key point in this video is why do you want to get rid of snails? Best point is to figure out how limit snails because they will work wonders if you let them, Awesome video Cory thanks for sharing
love every time cory talk about the "get rid of snails" topic because it essentially boils down to: "how do you get rid of snails?" "dont"
Mystery snails are amazing. Never thought a snail could be so active and cool to watch.
Great informative video again Cory!
I love the quality! It looks like you're talking to me in real life.
I love snails, and my puffer does too!
Keep up the good work and thumbs up!
Just got three fish yesterday, woke up today and there was a snail on the wall of my tank. The imagine of the tank with 10000 snails popped into my mind and I want him out. Lol.
Funny I found this video because we are 100% the reason our tank has some snails is because of the plants we got from the co-op :). Just discovered a couple babies roaming around this weekend. My kids are so excited. I was always taught that snails in your tank wasn't a bad thing as long as you didn't have a thousand of them
Well said. I like snails. My apisto macs and red hump geos love to chow on them so I maintain a good number in stock. They also help my otos in the algae department so I would never get rid of them.
Had a planted tank for over 10 years, and almost never changed the water or vacuumed the gravel. One day, I decided to 86 about half of the overgrowth and change the water. A month later there were THOUSANDS of snails, which overwhelmed my bio filter and killed EVERYTHING in the tank. One week post crash, starting again with empty tank. :(
I put a single yoyo loach in a 20 gal that had a TON of pond snails and that little guy decimated the snail population in 1 weekend. Pretty cool to watch.
3 min videos is perfect , sometimes superlong videos are boring. have a nice day numero twoonooo!
A long time ago after seeing your snail hat I decided I wanted a bunch of snails lol to help my planted tank.... (first planted tank) so I
Went to petsmart and the lady let me collect as many mts I could get for free... put about 50 in , let an auto feeder run on the tank didn’t pay much attention at night I had a 55 gallon that was snails stacked on snails. Walls of snails...gravel was snails as I had sand this was an issue...took off auto feeder started having water quality’s issues from the snails. So I got a school of 5 gold zebra loaches took about a 3 months they tripled in size and im down to about mostly only baby snails left at this point from idk how many thousands adults. My sand is now empty shells... on the plus side I got some super cool loaches that have bursting belly’s 24/7 exactly like a pregnant guppie about to burst and they still steal all my bloodworms from my angels and guppies.
what are fish that eat thrm that can be cohabbed with bettas?
Is NO Planaria any good to get rid of snail infestation?
I like having snails in the tank; they do a good job keeping it clean.
Wait til they reproduce and you end up with a thousand tiny snails all over your glass, your plants, and your substrate.
I had a terrible infestation of trumpets Tails. Had no idea until I came home in the middle of the night turn the kitchen light on and looked at the tank they were all over. Assassin snails are tearing their asses up right now big time. However, when they're done doing their job I'm going to re-home them or give them away for free before they get hungry and get my nerites. The nerites are much bigger so apparently that's kind of discouraging for the Assassin Snail but if they get hungry enough they'll team-up. If you ever read this Corey is there any reason you didn't suggest the Assassin Snail?
I got a new plant about a month ago and just saw 2 snails in the tank. I got rid of the smaller one to make sure it wasn't a worm or something because it was so tiny. But today I saw one with a hard shell and everything! about the size of a small pea. How I missed it all this time, I don't know, but I'm gunna keep him. :)
I found a snail in my tank after i ordered a plant from aquarium co-op. The snail was so tiny it was hard to find at first, but only 2 weeks later the snail quadrupled in size. And its fast! Im keeping my eye on it.
i did this but then a few weeks later there were so many eggs and baby snails around
Is there a worm or snail without shell ? They are about 1/4 inch long, clear to whiteish color. Moving up and down the glass. I think they have antenna. Never seen them before. Thanks.
I love the snails too. Its all part of the ecosystem. I need more ramshorn snails though
The pounding heart during the last three seconds was hilarious! Nice touch Jimmy!
thank you cory, ive been seeing lots of snails in my tank and have been stressing like crazy because of my friends and such who say they are a terror. this helps a lot!
I recently got frogbit in my 10 gallon divided betta tank and bladder snails came with them. dozens of eggs hatched from them and now I've got so many tiny snails. I don't think my plakat is happy about it.
Great video! I especially appreciate you not editing every little hiccup in your transcript like some we all know, and even better that its unscripted! A++
I do everything in one take and leave in the mistakes. Right or wrong my goal is to be just like we were having a conversation :)
Aquarium Co-Op its right... UA-camrs get full of themselves, and suddenly think they're master video producers... it all goes to hell from there. (like a few in our hobby!) Keep up the non-edited natural conversation, please & thank you! 😁
Have you guys tried ocean free snail remover? I wonder if it's safe for shrimps, fishes, and plants.
Okay look I need help and can't find s video on this.
I have a newer tank about 4 weeks old. The fish store swore I could condition and use bacterial starter then just add fish after a good water test. I think that's wrong, I've had a couple of bacterial blooms occur. I now have 9 mollies, an amano shrimp and a bamboo shrimp in a 29g tank.
Here's the thing, I keep buying snails and they keep dying almost instantly. Like, I'll acclimate for nearly 30 minutes in some cases, add the snails and they stop moving only occasionally acting like they're coughing a few times before they stop moving altogether. Because they can cause ammonia spikes, my wife keeps throwing them out even though they don't stink. I think she's just too paranoid and they're hibernating but then I've bought plants where I saw bladder snails on them a couple weeks ago and it seems like even pest snails can't make it in my tank.
My GH and KH are pretty high and we did have the temp a little low because the thermometer was faulty. Just don't get why this wouldn't work out for us, I was hoping for some kind of snails.
Nice. Love this format. 3 min. Brilliant! Good info too btw.
I'm dealing with a ramshorn infestation in a tank that already has nerites. I just pluck them out with tweezers. I know that's going to take a while but the number is already decreasing.
Great video. I personally love snails, great cleaners and monitors of tank health, I actually have a 5 gallon just for snails for my pea puffers.
Keep this going...absolutely love 3 min Thursday. Great info as always
And funny.
Had a snail problem in my 20 gallon. Thousands of them.
Bought a plant. Did not rinse and bleach it before putting it in tank and one little snail that appeared on the plant turned into thousands.
Tried a ton of ways to get rid of them.
Finally, exchanged my fish (except my corys) for five pea puffers (Had to get rid of my fish because pea puffers will attack most fish).
After three months all the snails were dead (thousands of empty shells on the substrate) but now I had a huge algae problem because no more snails to eat the algae… Had to treat that.
Tried to catch the pea puffers so I could bring back “regular” fish.
One male pea puffer refused to be caught. It would dodge the net and hide in my plants.
Stayed like that for a month.
Finally caught the little sob and exchanged him…
Now… two months later…
the snails are back!
Thousands of them… again.
😐
Hey great video! I’m about 8 months into the aquarium world and have learned a lot from your channel. What’s a good type of loach that stays around the 6” size that I could use to get rid of snails? 135 gal American cichlid tank, probably 100 (trumpet?) snails
I bought some Red Ramshorn snails a couple of weeks ago but i'm struggling to keep them. I bought 20 but now i can only see about 5 in the tank. I don't know if they are just hiding in the plants maybe? People say the breed rapidly but I haven't seen any eggs in my tank yet which is dissapointing.
I know its a bit brutal but can i collect them, crush them and feed to fish that otherwise could not eat them when they are in the shell? Guppys seem to eat them this way but is it good for them?
Wait... clown loaches eat snails? I had no idea. What about tiger barbs? Cause I was considering them as my main schooling fish & heard that the clown loaches get along well with them when they're schooled together. At the same time, I intend to get some blue ramshorn snails. Don't judge my color palette, just wondering if the snails will be safe around the barbs...
Ive got about 500 bladder snails in my 6 gallon tank, I added 2 assassin snails about 2 weeks ago and also a pea puffer a week ago. The assassin snails havent really moved much and i havent seen the pea puffer eat any. So far the snail population is still growing. Any suggestions? Love the videos man. Thanks.
You mentioned Clown Loachs. Do they just suck out the snail animal or do they consume the entire shell?
I need some advice. Once I've gotten the snails out of my tank, what do I do with them? I'm pretty much a pacifist when it comes to this kinda stuff, I don't have the heart to kill them. I can't even clean my tank atm because I'm afraid I'll accidentally crush or wipe away some baby snails. I'm trying to get them our, lure them onto some cucumber and take them out. When they're out though, what next? I won't kill them, not willingly. Can I release them into the wild? There's a few ponds around here.
I got bladder snails (These were NOT intentionally added, and I thought they were cute at first), cory's, and shrimp.. Which means a detrivore diet in the tank, so 'starving' the hermaphrodite snails from hell into a low population.. that would just mess with my entire tank, and they're abundant enough to be bothering my shrimp, so while I agree that a few adult snails are good.. of damn near any OTHER species at least, I can't keep everything that finds it's way into my tank, in my tank long term. What I may do is keep a population somewhere as a treat for the Khuli loaches that arrive tomorrow.
I just found one very small snail and It was an unpleasant surprise. I don't know what to do though I'm not taking it out of the tank to die as that is cruel, none of my fish are going to eat it (tetras and small shrimps) ..idk. I have a garden pond would the snails survive in that?
Snails are great I use them for my plants feed my pea puffers
Ok I need help! I have a flower horn and like a million snails in the tank. He’s alone and will not eat them. I tried cleaning them out but they keep coming back like wild fire. I think am going to have to move him out and get rid of them. What solutions will work to get rid of them?
Great video, I will keep my snails after I've seen this one,thanks looking forward to next video.
Hey Cory, I am currently Spawning Pygmy Corys and I was curious if snails would eat the eggs? I have one big nerite snail and a bunch of pond/pest snails.
Hi, I got 2 clown loaches, 5 polka dot and 3 hill stream loaches. 1 rainbow tail shark, 13 Buenos Aires tetras and 5 fully grown Pictus. 2 days ago I dropped 2 snails as treat and Yet they still crawling around. What happened ? Why are they still alive? Why my loaches don’t eat that ?
I put one snail in my tank and a month later theirs like snail eggs and snails everywhere they never go away!!!!
Awesome, snails are great.
This is my problem. My gf got 2 snails from a friend and now we have like 80 snails/snail eggs. They're taking over
Wait they breed just bye there self
I put an injured pond goldfish (which then picked up a fungus infection) in a planted recovery/treatment tank which has been overrun by small pest snails. After around 2-3 days of treatment he started gobbling up the snails and is looking much livelier :)
@@kyliexx7232 yeh I think they can get there self pregnant to
Thank you. Great video, you gave me my snails, so I shall keep my snails. 😂
Do you have white bettas ? And how much are they .
I have an albino bristlenose pleco and I used to have an algae problem so i added a few snails..... bad idea. Because now everywhere there's snails. I had to start adding algae waffers because i was worried that my pleco isn't getting the food it needs now, but the snails are eating the waffers instead. What should i do?
Another fish that is native to North America is a "Red Ear Sun Fish".
I would not recommend them in most aquariums but for ponds.
A nick name for them is "Shell Cracker" They love snails.
CORY!!
I have 3 mystery snails, one keeps latching on to the other and I’m assuming they’re mating.
One is the size of a golf ball, the “latcher” is nickel sized..
I’m wondering if I should separate them or just let them get groovy?! Not really trying to have snail babies but I have no problem just removing eggs. My concern is more like “is my snail being harassed by the other?”
Thank you so much I love abs appreciate your channel and content so much! You’re amazing! 💪🔥🐟🐠🐡
Got me 3 mystery snails. Let's just say it's not 3 anymore, there's like 30 smaller ones (currently ~1cm in diameter), also got some pond snails and some sort of ramshorn snails (at least 5) with plants. I'm a big snail fan since they are simply a cleanup crew, I don't mind them at all. Once the population gets out of control I know I've fed too much, hence they'll help me keep nitrates under control. Snails are awesome, and after watching how assassin snails take down other snails those wouldn't be an option for me anymore (they basically rasp the other snail down bite for bite, no venom or anything, what a way to go).
Hi, I have two snails. Is it safe to put a water heater in the tank? I don't want the snail to crawl on it and die.
Can bladder snails travel from one tank to another on their own?
Phew I was gonna toss in puffers in my tank but if they help I will keep them! Not sure what kind but what kind are the bad ones?
I added yoyo loaches and can't see any snails now but plant leaves are still getting rotten.. Should I cut them off or wait for them to shed themselves ?
Do Amphipods eat the snails or snail babies or even the eggs? Great video ..Thx!
Hi Cory. I know this is not on the topic right now. I bought a tank and inherited the fish that were in it and I'm struggling with the water being cloudy and my Jack Dempsey seems as though he is gasping for breath at this very moment. I've asked around even my local aquarium professionals. I'm really not sure what to do I followed what they recommended. It seems to be getting worse. My water levels are off the charts.
I almost wonder if I'm not having a case of old tank syndrome.
if your levels are off the chart, change water. until they are in normal parameters after first making sure your tap water is normal.
Ive done two partial water changes. The water is cloudy, I added amonia remover in hopes to lower amonia. I retsted my nitrites are low and nitrates are good...im going to stop by the fish store and add some more dr.tims bacteria to the tank to kind of boost bacteria...
I have a gaggle of bladder snail babies and a few bigger ones. I don’t want to use chemicals because I have a few mystery baby snails mixed in as well 🤦♀️
Anyway if I place a trap or remove manually how do you quickly kill the snails. I mean I don’t even want to do it but I don’t want the bladder snails. 😫😫😫
I'm trying to figure out where they are coming from. I got the initially on some plants I ordered. I kill them constantly and I've never seen any bigger than a grain of rice, but there are constantly small, recently hatched snails. So how big do they have to be to reproduce? I have one big mystery snail in my nano tank - I crush the babies with the tweezers and hope that the mystery is eating them. It's been more than a month since my tanks got infected so surely all the eggs must have hatched by now.
When I was new to the hobby I had a pond snail problem so I just bought a handful of assassin snails and they cleared out the tank in a couple weeks. But now I honestly don’t care about snails. They are great at cleaning up the tank. And it’s actually funny how the biggest and brightest fish gets about half a second of notice from guest before somebody says oh cool a snail lol
Heyyy thanks for this video sooo informative. . I want to get rid of my snails because i thought they it plants. . Now i know they are not and they can help me. . But is it ok to my aquaruim (breeding tank) swordtail
Hi! I’m one of those people that accidentally brought home a new plant and found snails a few weeks later. 😅 They’re really really tiny, not even an inch yet, and VERY translucent, with a brown tip at the tip of the shell that’s not translucent. The shell itself swirls like a cone, but it’s not a long pointy cone. It points outward like a trumpet snail, but not as much, kind of round? They have tiny antenas and have been hanging mostly on the plants. Hope you can help me... I need to clean my tank today and if I dump them in my yard, I’m afraid I’ll accidentally have released some live ones into the ecosystem. An ecosystem they shouldn’t be in.
I have a 2 inch yoyo loach will that help me reduce my blader snail problem in my 30 gallon tank?
I have a problem, i was told snails were completely detrimental to my tank and got a tiger botia to eliminate them. I had about 7 snails and he has already eaten 2 at least. thing is after doing more research i found that they might actually be beneficial in the small numbers i had them. So is there a way to keep the leach from eating the ones i have left?
Unlikely, loaches are pretty much designed to eat them.
Damn I have 2 adult snails that are much bigger, will it matter or are they done for also? I was afraid things might get out of control as I was basically spooked by everyone about it, but after reading up i had pretty good control on them it seemed. My weekly maintenance seemed to go much smoother since they appeared too which is a shame,
I only recently saw 1 snail in my tank, should I get it out or let it live? Would it reproduce alot and have a lot of snails on my tank?
You can't get 100% rid of them. But if you want to keep the numbers low...just drop a slice of cucumber. Wait until they swarm it and remove it and repeat daily. You can bring the number down and clean your tank as well of course. Bettas can learn to eat snails too!
How can bettas learn to eat them ?
@Ms. Babette Benjamin I held one by the shell with some tongs. My betta curiously kept swimming around it and eventually went for the fleshy part. Later I saw my betta develop and appetite for them. They love them! Just make sure you don't have an infestation where your betta can over feed. Keep numbers low first.
Snails are awesome don't get rid of them! Specifically, ramshorns and Malaysian trumpet snails :)
I have a quick question, this doesn't have anything to do with this video but, what are your thoughts on purchasing an aquarium kit from PetSmart for my first aquarium? Going small my first time out, like a 10 or 20 gallon.....
i have so many snails in my old fish tank and we had a real plant in that tank but i have a plastic plant in my new tank but the snails are still finding their way in what do i do?
Great advice
First of all I am new to real plants. I ordered a banana plant and now I have baby snails and i would like to get rid of them. I did soak my plant in the aquarium water for a day, I had cleaned my tank (this was the leftover water) and I didn't see any snails so I put the plant in my tank and the next day I see this thing on my glass! And today I saw two more, how many am I gonna see out of this plant? Help!
Hard to say, could have been an egg clutch on the plant.
I don't know what the heck is in my tank. I found 2. About the size of a spec. Take a grain of sand and maybe cut it in half. That small! But there were trails around them like those you find when snails eat algae and leave that trail behind. Anywho I figured they're pesky pond snail hatchlings so I went to squish them and they were pretty hard. Idk what they were.
I would love to have more snails! Lol
I have one pond/bladder snail that hitch hiked into one of my tanks from a local pet shop, and he keeps my 10 gal planted tank looking gorgeous. I got all excited when I found a tiny baby snail two weeks ago, thinking I could put any newcomers in one of my other tanks.
Alas, he has been gone since the day I spotted him.
I do have a prefilter, so I doubt he’s in my hob filter.(I’ll have to check)
I have Cory’s and white clouds in there...could a Cory eat a baby snail?
They clean the bedding so propavly they eat all the babies
Very informative!! I love snails!!
I have mystery snails that I like and don’t want to get rid of but I also have tons of pond snails that are smaller that don’t like that I want gone. How would I only get rid of those ones without reducing the number of mystery snails
Can you move the mystery snails to another tank and rent a pea puffer from your local store? then put the mystery snails back in?
Aquarium Co-Op I’ll try that thanks
I know this is off topic but I couldn’t find any videos on this. My aquarium has these tiny black eel like fish??? I can’t upload a pic. There are a lot of them on the bottom. I don’t know what they are. Any quesses?????
Maybe live black worms? Leeches or Kuhli loaches?
took a pic to the pet store, turned out to be mosquito larve…. so strange!! Scooped them up and the end!.. :) Thanks for the reply!!
I have a microtank but I can't chemically get rid of them because of my lil shrimp family, and I also can't add another fish because I will overload the tank and don't have another tank to put them in (tanks are very very expensive in my country so I can't just go buy another) they came in with my shrimp and I only saw one originally which I was like, yeah it's ok but there's like five I've seen now and im not sure how much I haven't seen. I have native Australian creek shrimp and they're really sensitive and prefer a bit of uncleanliness so I can't just keep my tank super clean but I also don't want them to breed into oblivion helpppp