From the article: Removing Aquarium Snails
Where do they come from? How do they multiply so rapidly? What can you do to get rid of them? Anyone who has fought snails knows it is a tough battle. Share you tips with others who are battling the scourge of exponential snail growth. Help others battle snails
I love my clown loaches!
- They are among the most comically funny, most colorful, and most lovely tempered fish ever kept in an aquarium. And they LOVE to eat snails. They suck them right out of their shells, like they were ice cream in an ice-cream-cone. W
- —Guest warren
Good Idea
- I have found a great way on how to get rid of the tiny snails. What you have to do is get a small jar and put a little bit of lettuce in it and put it at the bottom of the tank! Me and my parents have found out that it works great!
- —Guest Georgia
Loach
- Loaches are great for removing snails from your tank because they suck them right out of the shell. Clown loaches can get to 10 inches long so I personally would use a yoyo loach.
- —Guest Zhangis Khan
Get a trio of clown loaches
- An excellent community tank fish, and it loves to eat snails. W
- —Guest wp
Weapons in the "Snail Wars"
- The most effective weapon I have found to combat snails is the family of fish called botia. Many are commonly known as loaches and probably the best known is the clown loach. A beatiful fish (a little on the delicate side) but a warrior against snails nonetheless. They and their cousins the yoyo loaches and skunk botias are probably the best snail eaters that I know of. At present I have skunks in a 30 g tank. I net out snails from my infested tanks and toss them in with the skunks. Within just a few days, there is a pile of empty shells in one corner of the tank. I think it is just the water current doing the piling up, but it looks like they finish off a snail and then toss the empty shelll in the corner with the rest of them. A chemical weapon is called "Had a Snail" and it works too. But you have to be careful leaving the dead snails in the tank, they can foul the water. Anything with copper in it, like Aquari-Sol will also kill snails. Good luck, John
- —7John7
