How to Get Rid of Snails in Your Fish Tank
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
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In this video we discuss how pest snails get into your aquarium, their potential benefits and how to get rid of them if you don't want snails in your aquarium.
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Snail lover! I discovered my love of snails after getting some hitchhikers. Now they are my favorite aquarium animal!
very good info, and easy to listen to!! I have a 70 gallon tank that I have had for over 15 years. But in the last years ramshorn snails showed up for the first time ever with pet store fish.
This is certainly the best video about fish tank pest snails I've every seen. Very nice. Overlaps completely with my observation.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOs!!! I bought a rare Colombian ramshorn snail and they are beautiful but they reproduced so fast. I bought 3 assasin snails and they are helping allot!
Thank you so much for making this video! We have a 75 and 10 gallon tank that thrive but so do the snails at times so this was beneficial!!
Glad it helped! : -)
Great video...You really covered the bases on this one. FWIW...I am steadfastly on team snail! I got into snails when I started keeping live plants. Overnight...POOF! They do a fantastic job keeping a tank clean and I have them in all 40 tanks now with the exception of the large SA cichlid tanks. Those tanks are where extra snails go to meet their maker. To collect extra snails I put a small dish with food in it into the aquarium at lights out. I pull the dish in the morning and feed the snails to the SA's. Thanks for the great video!
Gerald Wallace That’s cool! It would be quite the trick to get them to survive in your SA tank!
Thank you Jason, think I’ll go with the sera snail trap.
I really liked the video..
My plecos had babies, four batches, so I kept the feeding high for them but I'm now over populated with snails.. I have two other tanks so I'll net them and spread the snails. Thankyou again. I'm subscribing now..
I love snails, and have 3 kinds, altho I've only bought MTS, Pond and Ramshorn snails hitch-hiked in. But, they're part of my eco-system.
My Peppered cory's enjoy the odd snack of snails too.
I used to hate snails 🐌 🐌🐌 but now that they’re in most of my tanks, they’re kinda fun to watch. If they get out of hand what I do is take out a whole bunch and put them in your tanks. 😆
Great, then you can stop asking me to take them out all the time. : -)
I fell in love with Mystery Snails and their goofy antics. I am currently trying to breed some Ivory colored snails. This AM I discovered a third egg mass.
Problem is, its blocking the lid...
I'll have to address that issue when it hardens.
Do they destroy real plants
I'm curious do they destroy Fake plants too??????!!!!😑🤨🤔
Haha yes they are fun to watch. I understood why they called the 🐌 movie Turbo.
Nice and simple advice thank you... I saw another CZcams channel someone used comet goldfish to get rid of snails. Anyone used it?
I have 2 tanks and have one of them overnight with snails and have tried the cucumber trick and a few other things as well without success. What I now do is capture the bulk of them and bring them to a local mom and pop pet stop to feed to the puffers. They benefit and so do I., circle of life!
That's a good idea but when you're pet shop is like 30 miles away
then you have to get a better solution to get rid of them, I put 3-6
pieces of (green beans) through out the tank (75 gal) & let them be
drawn to the beans & take them out & they LOVE GREEN BEANS.
Controlling snails 5:20
Thank you. Exactly what I wanted to watch right now.
Okay. Cool. Another addition to my guppies and plants home. Thanks so much. I'm glad I don't have to get rid of them.
12:01 this may have been the most valuable piece of advice I have heard!!!
Great info!
At this moment, I think I have two dozen pond snails in my one-gallon nano tank. It snuck in on one of the plants. With my wife and I having a background in environmental science, I just let the tank take care of itself :)
Plus my kids like watching snails sometimes more than the fish lol 😆
Such a great video and great advice, thank you, I subscribed
Thank you for being here!
My betta has been taking good care of the snail larvae. I like having a couple adults. Watching a snail swim is quite fun. I appreciate having them in my tank and they've proven quite helpful.
Same I squish my snail and then my Betta fish eat it
My bettas are leaving them alone sadly
@@GdV30 same 😩
I have 3 nano planted tanks & I have had snails in all of them, somehow. I have a Betta in one of the tanks & I think he's actually eating the snail larvae, too. I can't see them, of course, but I think he does. It looks like he's hunting or something, looking intensely & then he goes for it.
On another note, I really don't mind snails. I hate killing anything. So, I've just been picking them from my 2 smaller tanks & putting them into my 5 gallon tank. I thought they were making holes in my plant's leaves, then I found out it's just because they are lacking potassium & thanks to Jason, now I know that the snails don't harm the plants. I just might let them be now, for now.
Thanks for the info, just found one, not sure if I have more. I think I'll do a piece of cucumber in the tank to see if I have more.Sound cool part of the ecosystem if controlled. E
Thank God there is someone making real information vids for aquariums. I am one of the odd people that really like the snails and my plants. Thus vid put my mind at rest when it comes to snails in my plant tank. While I'm at it how do you think a clown loaches would go with cherry shrimp ? Any idea would be appreciated.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching. I am fairly certain most loaches would eat the shrimp. They like them. : -)
I LOVE my snails!!
I started with only snails!
Love them!!
As long as you keep population in check, they are GREAT to have!
Great. You've given some great tips. I'm going to try your number one tip which is to not overfeed my fish because I think that's part of the problem. I can't get any killer snails because I have one great big golden snail that I love but now I'm not so worried about the stragglers.
Hope it works well for you!
Assassin snails. What wonderful little gastropods. I bought four to help with a snail infestation in a 75 gallon tank. A few months later they were the only snails to be found, but I had lots and lots of baby assassin snails. Fortunately, they found their eco balance and they really are rather pretty. Get you some!
how many assassins are in your tank? What do they eat when all the rest of the snails are gone.
@@etyrnal
They are wonderful at cleaning up excess frozen foods, like Bloodworms, Tubifex and Brine Shrimp.
They also breed readily.
I have two big Clown Loaches and I still have breeding Assassins in my big tank.
I got duds. Mine are useless lol
@@joshiewhite I hope mine aren’t like yours.. just added some to help deal with an infestation as I don’t have the heart to kill them myself.. I have a little 1 gallon tank that’s just full of ramshorn and bladder snails that I’ve pulled out of other tanks.. maybe I should get a puffer or something as I have an unlimited supply of food.. I don’t mind if something else kills and eats them, I’m just not gonna kill them for no reason though
Will they harm shrimp?
I live in Australia, and I have a native fish tank which I just chocked full of Cardina longrostris shrimp. The rainbowfish pretty much ignore them, they are super cool and fun to watch, and they just decimate any algae, detritus and anything else - therefore kinda controlling the snails. I still have snails though, idc, they're alright, sometimes the rainbowfish eat the small ones.
Thank you for an informative video; I needed this. I like your teaching style, happy face, no foul language, no music, encouraging and very knowledgeable. I subscribed tonight.
Thank you!
Great videos, very informative without getting too technical! BTW what where those colorful fish in the tank approx 15 sec before the video ended? Thanks
Those were all various species of mbuna cichlids. They are great fish, even though they can be aggressive.
Hi Jason.
I have a 10 gallon tank with the irritating baby snails. The tank is in cycling mode with no fish in it. I have manually taken out many of the snails but it’s an uphill battle. Can I use the copper based meds to kill them without disrupting my cycling ? I clear out many every day. I think they came off a plant which I have removed. Again, no fish or plants are in the tank. Thank you. I live your videos.
Started my first tank this week. A planted tall 20 gal that I am planning to slowly create a community in. The goal is to add some snails in a few weeks. I think they sound fun, and I know my son will just love watching them!
Cool! If you don't want them to over-populate you could look at mystery snails. If you want to keep the numbers down, if you see any egg clusters near the top of the tank or lid, you can just remove them. If you want more, leave them. :-)
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you for the advice and for your awesome channel! My family and I have been watching so many of your videos the last few weeks and they have been a huge help for us newbies!
I tried cutting down the bio-load by feeding less algae wafers and I think I may have starved a couple of my corydoras. There were too many ramshorns hogging the wafers I did toss in and the corydoras could not get to them, I guess. So I tossed about 30 of the snails into the fish pond out back and went back to my initial ration of wafers. The remaining cories seem happy. Lesson learned.
Very informative. I do love my mystery 🐌 ❤️
It's good to hear that mbuna will eat snails. I should be getting my mbuna this Wednesday and now I know what to do with all the snails in my 10 gallon tank. I just tried pulling them out with a shrimp net and my fingers but it didn't work out well.
They will love them!
Thank you for sharing this video. This was one of the best videos I have seen and it's very clear on what I now need to do. I have so many trumpet snails in my 20-gallon tank and I have one Betta fish. I am going to see if I can get the assassin snail to clear my tank up. I guess my question is will my Betta fish get along with the assassin snail?
If there are regular snails in the tank he will probably leave the assassin snail alone too.
I use a high powered green laser on the eggs when i see that their breeding more than the tank needs and it doesn't seem to hurt the plants, i also remove the fish and invertebrates i want to keep to holding tank while doing this just to be safe, it seems less effective on ramshorns though
Wow I didn’t know Mbuna would eat them…ram horn are taking over my planted tank Im glad I can feed them to my adult mbunas 👏 thank you 🙏
Excellent video! The pest snails that have invaded my tank are bladder snails... I actually think they are kind of pretty! I just really wish they wouldn't reproduce so much! The problem is that I am an accidental mystery snail rancher. I have become the biggest mystery snail dork in the last year. I love em! They are so freaking entertaining! In order to reduce the quantity of bladder snails, I would have to also endanger my mystery snails. So, for now, I will just let them be and every so often I will clean the eggs off of my plants (paper towels or cotton swabs are actually pretty good at this!).
Seems like a good plan. : -)
Thank you!!!!! ❤this is advice I was looking for!
Very useful video. Done very nicely. Thanks
Thank you! Appreciate it : -)
excellent presentation as always
Good fish youtuber! cool tanks at home and straight good information without Hour long rants! 👍🏼
Marsa • Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
I love my tank snails, they're just as entertaining as the fish & very useful I find 😊
I love this type of education
VB 23 Thank You!
I just love the snails! My bettas love to eat the baby snails so that keeps the snail numbers down in those tanks.
I love snails! The bigger the better! I live to see the egg patches develop! Thanks Jason!! Peace! 😀😃
Very cool!
For awhile I was mad at my pond snails, but then I seen how useful they are in a tank and lets be honest tiny pond snails are adorable!
I'm glad you made friends with them. : -) They're not that bad!
I recently got Carrot snails and they will uproot plants and strip the bark of stem plants especially if recently planted. They don’t bother established plants as much.
I have pond snails in my 55gal. Tank
I like the fact that they do good but I need to control them from spreading
Nice video & excellent presentation
Thank you!
Great information. Nice upload.
Thank you!
Haha, I'm still anti-snail. I purposely tried to raise them back when I had a puffer, but I still personally don't prefer their look and would rather own other algae eaters and scavengers. :)
I don't think you are alone. : -)
Girl Talks Fish, I feel pretty much feel the same way. I would rather have scavenger fish. Don’t care for the look of snails.
Girl Talks Fish.
I have baby rams horns eating my plants. You should’ve seen how many snails I’ve removed and there still in there. And there so little there hard to grab with the tweezers and my yo-yo loaches can’t find em lol. Also I love your channel I find it very helpful and fun to watch. 🤗
Nerite snail are pretty good though and can be an exception.
You're a great speaker dude
Thank you!
i need a snail vaccume for my lake. how do i invent a snail vaccume that also mulches them.viviparus georgianus to many
Thank you for posting this! I have a snail outbreak and they’re eating my plants. :(
I appreciate the info. 😊
I put two pea puffers in my community tank and they aren't bothering the other fish and they are really enjoying hunting down the snails.
You earned a subscription from me! That’s for sure.
I recently noticed 3 snails in my tank, I haven’t added any fish nor plants in probably about a year. Is it possible for their eggs to come from tap water, bottled water or frozen fish food?
I’ve never had them before and I’m unsure how I feel about them. I was skeptical about using chemicals and that’s what brought me to your video.
I would like to add that I did have a peacock eel die recently that I’ve had for years. I highly doubt it but is it possible the eggs lied dormant on him?
Thank you for being here! I'm not sure if the eggs can survive freezing? If you haven't added anything new to the tank in a long time I wonder if that's how it happened. Either that, or they were in there but the eel was eating them and now that he is gone they are starting to grow?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics it’s definitely pretty interesting how they’ve seemingly come from nowhere.
The eel was a pretty voracious eater so that wouldn’t be a surprise.
I’ve tested the quality of my tap water and it has perfect conditions to add straight into the tank. I guess as off-putting as it is, the idea that they could come from there is possible
i have african cichlid tanks haps and peacock predator haps. and its the most trumpet snail overrun tank
It's not that I don't like the snails in my tank, it's that there was a big population boom and now there has to be atleast 100 or more in our 20 gallon tank. I understand that they are there for a reason, but I think it's a bioload problem at this point and leaving them might cause more problems with the balancing of the tank
Thanks for the info dude
Thanks for watching!
I'm completely new to the planted aquarium hobby. I don't even have fish yet. I'm only one month in, and just found a few tiny baby snails in my tank. A bit worried at first, but I appreciate the video and we shall see how this plays out. Gonna let them be for now.
Put 3-6 pieces of green beans in the tank when you see more than 6 snails
cause they WILL populate really fast
The snails will help cycle your new tank.
@@raisinggoldfishonabudget7058 What do green beans do?
This is the first time I've gotten an unwanted snail in one of my recently purchased plants. And just today I noticed quite a few baby snails. I don't know what kind they were and this new planted tank is under 15 gallons so it's not like there hundreds in there although I did remove between 40 and 50. And my brand new "turkey baster" sucks them right off the glass!!! So as long as they're very small, manually removing them via the turkey baster method wasn't that bad and didn't take that long. And while I probably missed a couple they're now what I call snails under control!!!
So, what do you do to the snails when you remove the snails? You do kill them...right?
Months ago I just bought 5 Ramshorn snails and so happy about it but after few months they multiplied aggressively. Luckily I have them in a different tank specifically for snails so any other snails that pops from other tanks, I rehome them there. Lately I realized my Ranchu's loves baby snails so whenever there's new unwanted snails that pops out I just pluck and fed them to my voracious goldfishes. They feed frenzy whenever I put some.
I do the same with some of our loaches. :-)
I went looking for videos on rams horns- now I’m staying 😂😂😂😂
Woohoo!
Excellent info
Thank you!
Also Goldfish! Our 14 cent feeder fish goldfish grew to about 4 inches. We put him in our 10 gallon guppy tank and it cleared the tank in a day. Over a hundred snails exterminated by one fish. I couldn't believe it. Afterward he was a bit sluggish but was back to begging for food the next day.
I found the best way! Im a beginner and at first i liked the one snail in my tank but eventually it got really bad. I tried everything but nothing worked.
Now i have the snails under control and it was rather easy. I plant damaged plants with big weak leaves. Snails love them and feed from them and just after a day or two just remove the plant again. The snail will hold on the the plant and you can trap dozens of them all at once. It's a natural trap basically. I don't know the name of the plant i used.
Another thing was when one of my platies was pregnant (first timer for me and i tried to save the babies). I got one baby and i put it in a small hatchery. I noticed the snails eventually start gathering in there as there is little waterflow and lots of food in there. I replace the baby and then remove the snail. It works way better than the baited traps designed for snails. My hatchery consists of 2 parts and i added soms pieces of plants in there for cover for the baby but the snails love them aswell.
I had 2 hitchhiker bladder snails with my red cap Oranda, I put them into a tank on their own and now I have tonnes of snails. Which I feed the juvenile snails to my goldfish. Constant, free supply of fresh fish food for my fancy goldies.
Some people worry that fish will choke on the snails, if it fits in a goldfishes mouth they’ll eat it and mush them up with their crushing block (teeth) at the back of their mouths. Snails are also good source of vitamins too for fishes.
I got hitchhiker ramshorn (I think) and I don't love them in my shrimp and betta tank. I do have two fantail goldies. Will they get them? I have been trying to pick them out but they hatch overnight from somewhere and I have dots that are snails when I put my "microscope eye" on them. I love my mystery snails and we all live nicely together with angels and plecos and neons and lil cats of few different kinds. Trying to do right and do plants in the tank after 7 years of doing just a filter and finally getting the hang of it - but now this ... wanna cry and start over. Tell my my goldies can save my tank.
I bought 5 assassin snails to control the pest snails in a difficult to maintain tank. Those 5 assassin snails turned into over 200. The pest solution became the pest. I've been able to trade many in, but still have some in a 5 gallon tank.
Regarding snail traps: I use the ISTA brand snail traps to catch snails in my community tank to feed the assassins.
Sounds like a good solution to your pest of a pest problem. : -)
The food method to remove snail is awesome :O
Thanks!
I use a fish net like he said works out ok I turn the light off a few hours later they all come out on the glass then i scrape them downwards and then catch them in the net as the are falling.
I've got a 20 gal home to a betta, a few corydoras, a single mystery snail, and a huge excess of pest snails. Just today there were about 30 new babies just chilling on the back glass. I've thought about getting some assassin snails to take care of them and then moving them into a shrimp tank I'm planning on starting soon, but I really don't want to risk having them in with my mystery snail
I'll definitely try the cucumber method in my community tank. Got a bit too many for my liking. I'll be moving them to my 3.5g for now(designated snail tank for now) and take some up to my aquarium job for the puffers.
Quick question. Would it be feasible to keep a African dwarf frog in a 3.5g?
Just looking for ideas for this small tank besides a betta.
Haha Jason, I love your intros!
Thanks : -)
I have a Community tank that the snails are keeping my water level messed up what should I do?
Thanks, great info! I have a Malaysian snail overpopulation and considered getting assassin snails, but I have a few Narites I do not want to be harmed. Am I right in assuming the assassins would eat the Narites as well? Thanks
Ya, they probably would.
I don't think I'd mind if they quickly snapped them up, but I read on a forum that pea puffers will take chunks out of bigger snails, and one user said they leave them alone after biting their antenna off. That doesn't sound like the display tank I'm going for.
Just added 3 assassin snails to my connected double 10 gallon tanks.. went from 2 pink ramshorn snails 4 months ago to like 200+… hoping they get to work soon
I bought an endler and a male guppy to add to my 5 gallon with my other male guppy and two tetras and the snails appeared. I’m so confused
Nice video of information but how about disinfecting/sanitizing plants prior to going into your aquarium! I use 19 parts water with prime to one part bleach and swoosh your plants around for about a minute depending on your plant. Rinse well afterwards prior to adding plants into your tank. (Get rid of bleach odor) With this method I've never had a population of those nasty pond snails.
Thanks for sharing!
Lol ! I literally just came home from vacay to a snail infested 9gallon 😳 squish squish squish, hopefully I got them all
What plants do you recommend for a tank with harley quinn tetras and neons, platys and guppies? Some shrimp too.
Crypts, Anubias, Java moss, jungle Val can all be good options.
I use snail traps they work great, just add some gravel to make them sink and put in algae wafers for bait
I have a 10 gallon tank with a recent snail spawn not sure what kind its a planted tank we take them out slowly but seems like an endless task
I love snails, my puffers, loaches, and cichlids love them.
I'll ship them to you then lol
Me too😅👌
@Le Baguette they will eat small snails, but not overly large ones unless you have an exceptionally large kuhli loach
hey buddy! I heard snail shells are one way to get calcium into the water column if you're using RO water
They can help, but they break down very slowly so they may not have a great impact. Aragonite may be helpful.
I got a ramshorn for my 5 gallon beta. Made the mistake of dropping in algae wafers for it and my other two cleaners. Luckily i had already gotten a Pea Puffer so i just feed him the baby snails.
My khuli loaches love bladder snails. I keep snails in my shrimp tank to feed to my fish occasionally and I have a graveyard of bladder snails from my loaches
Hi Jayson. I squish them and almost all fish will go for it. They grab the meat before it even hits the bottom. Free fresh food. I keep it under control like that. I like them. ❤
Yoyo loaches will destroy snails. I put a few in my back yard gold fish pond and they destroyed hundreds of pond snails within a few weeks.
Hi Jason, I have a 55 gal, 8 zebra snails and about 50 tiny baby maybe more snails that came in on my plants. My question is if I get 2 dwarf puffers will they eat my zebra or just eat the tiny snails?( zebra size range from nickel to a quarter size)
They may try to eat the zebras as well. : -(
Hey Jason how can you tell if a snail is dead I know they like to hibernate as some say and won't move awhile but I've heard they can release a good amount of ammonia in a tank
The truth is it’s not something I typically worry about in my fish room because I have so many scavengers in my tanks. Other snails, plecos, fish that pick on dead things, etc. I can’t recall ever having an issue with dead snails and usually don’t know they’ve died until I just see the shell. In a small tank without scavengers I suppose it could be a problem, it’s just not something I make a point to observe.
awesome video.
Question.. I use the leaves that’s supposed to be good for fish. I found they will eat up a 10 inch leaf in 5 days. I like snails. Just not a thousand. I’m infested w/trumpets.
Controlling feeding is the most important thing.
Very informative
Ramon Sanchez Glad it was helpful!
I'm not upset I have one golden mystery snail and one other random little tiny snail in my tank and that's all it's ever been there. The little tiny snail really likes to live on my heater and my golden snail is outstanding for cleaning up from the fish
I have them in my turtle tank....I love em. They are benifitual.
I like snails because I think they are the best scavengers you can get they can get down into crooks and crannies where even the catfish or loaches can not get that excess food! to control them I just use DYI snail traps made from a soda bottle
Rosy Barbs love eating snails... Changing my fake to planted tank. And OMG the amount of trumpet snails I have pulled out. My issue with them is that the shells get broken down and I can't seem to vacuum them out. They just float in the water and never go up the tube. Im to the point now, I'm using tweezers and pulling them up as they come up through the new black sand.... I tend to over feed, so cutting back on that now...
Ya, those floating shells are a pain. :-)
There isn't assassin snail in my country, what about any drug? I was thinking of a parasitic drug to kill the snails, will it kill the little red prawns too?
Bring in some French chefs.... escargot coming up! 😂😂😂
Yet another good solution. Haha
another great vid!
Thank you!
I love snails. In my various tanks, I have mystery, ramshorn, & trumpets.
I have the same mix!