Snails

[mrmoog]

Hi guys not been on in a while (sorry) Had noticed today whilst doing a water change at least 3 snails....any ideas???

 

[DesignsOnYou]

Have you bought any live plants recently? They frequently hitchhike.

 

[mrmoog]

Hey there,I bought some plants a couple a months ago, What should i do???

 

[DesignsOnYou]

Well, I think they're usually harmless, so you could just leave them, or you could take them out. It's up to you.

 

[TropicAZ]

The big question is whether or not they'll reproduce. You could have an outrageous snail population in your tank pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I don't know the difference between the two types, I just know I have 2 of the kind that won't reproduce. I'm sure you can google "aquarium snails" or something along those lines and see what you can find.

 

[OrangeCones]

You'll only have an explosion in snail population if you overfeed.

 

[DarthPadre]

Snails can be very beneficial to a tank. They are good scavengers and will eat small food that the fish won't. I will suggest that you leave them in there. If they reproduce quickly and become an eye sore you can either manually remove as many as possible, or you can pick up some copper based additives at your LPS, which I hear work very well. I hate to add any unnecessary chemicals to my tanks and prefer more natural approaches to extermination, but with the Japanese Shrimp in your tank, anything that would eat the snails would most likely eat those shrimp.

 

[mrmoog]

As always guys all my thanks....such a good site and good bunch of guys on the forums been a while since i have been on, Looking forward to getting back into it, Cheers