DIY Snail Trap
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- čas přidán 31. 01. 2015
- This is an easy and very inexpensive, and quite effective DIY snail trap for your aquarium.
I've noticed that the traps will not be as effective after each use. I suspect that the snails release a stress hormone or something. If I remove the trap and bleach it after emptying it, the next catch will be much more successful.
Just letting you know your tank looks amazing!!!
+pleco boy Thank you.
"if you still have your fingers on, it makes it easier to get the snails out of the trap" not often i laugh out loud at aquarium videos. well played good sir.
I'm in love with your tank! Great water quality and looks well maintained
This trap is easy to make works very well. I'm using it to remove 2 to 3 dozen ramshorn snails each night from my planted 55
Pretty cool I'll give it a shot. I have MILLIONS
Ingenious, simple, easy and almost free!
Now I don’t have an excuse not to win the snail battle in 6 tanks.
Thank you!
This was fantastic. You are so good at explaining things in detail. Please make more videos about taking care of fish! I thought it was sweet that your wife was there making sure you didn't drill into the tv tray. Seems like you are nice people.
Thank you. :) I do have another page with fish stuff. I accidentally created this one when I got a new phone & I don't know how to move this video to the other page. Do a search for Joel101R
Joel101R the trap has worked well to control the snail population but I don't think it will eliminate it. how do you think I can wipe them out completely so I don't have to keep setting traps?
If you get the numbers down with the trap, you can add assassin snails to help with the rest. That also may not eliminate but it will help keep them down a bit.
+Joel101R But then you're stuck with those
Assassin snails are helping and they are cleaner creatures but I can't seem to keep them alive. I think my water might be too hard. Or pH is too high. No sure.
Thanks Joel
Keep up the good content.
sweet trap man! yes, they can get out of control. Well, they are lower down on the food chain so they are actually decomposing the organics and making them easier for bacteria to break down, which is beneficial for the plants when utilizing the nutrients. The bio load isn't actually increased because they are decomposing what is already there into simpler form. Unless you are feeding more for the benefit of the snails there is no issue.
thanks for taking the time to do this!!! great vid!!!!!
Sue-Anne Orozco update. 24 hours later, using the algae wafer like Joel suggested, my trap is filling up!!!!
Thanks! This really helped with my trumpet snail problem. I quarantined one for a week to let it get its eggs out or whatever, but after 6 months of having him in the tank, the population exploded from 1 to like 50. I have a 10 gal tank, so thats why it concerned me.
Nice! I’m going to try this today. Thanks.
Awesome trap! I'm making one today! MTS snails are out of control and my assassin snails can't keep up with them.
Thank you.
Great trap! Thanks! What kind of food did you bait the trap with ?
Your tank is beautiful.
Nice german blues! Great trap idea too!!
Awww!!!! The fishies have a little town.
Also, i rlly thought this was a trap to catch snails outside my yard or sum but. Ye ur tank looks rlly busy and amazing. Nice work dude
You've got very nice tank!
+Pavel Alexeev Thank you
I made one ,didn't have any luck with snails ,but caught loads of baby platys
Try not feeding the tank for two days prior. Also put a tiny bit of different foods in the trap & give them a good variety to find what they like. The next thing would be the hole size in the caps. Make sure it's big enough to let them in.
Nice aquarium!
Instead of a wafer for bait , try a slice of cucumber , 24hrs later and you’ll nearly have every snail in your tank. Snails lovvveee. Raw cucumber
Drill the holes before you cut the bottles, no need to worry about the tv tray.
great tank, but how would one clean the substrate with so many plants?
Very nice video and great job
Those bottlenecks also work quite well for topping off fluids in your car. I keep one wedged between some hoses under my hood.
Great tip , another use I found that works great 4 Pothos plants 2 keep the roots submerged & protecting the new leaves from rot .
Can you show us if this technique works?
what is the stocking of this tank and the size?
I really was scared for your fingers! Thanks for the video. I don't own a drill so I'll probably try a screwdriver to make a hole
good vid and great tank!
Malcolm Skinner Thank you
Great idea despite other peoples opinions of long windedness. Within half a beer of installing this trap, I had my first victim.
excellent video thanks dude new to your channel
this seems like a good trap!! I'm going to try it to control my rams horn snail population who is off the charts. Thanks for sharing!
thanks for the cool tip my aquarium was getting overrun by these snails...
vito pellicane No problem. Glad I could help.
great Idea
Hope it works for me. Just trying this in my 40 gallon planted tank
wow I love this tank😍
thank you.
My 75 gallon is infested. I'm going to make one over the weekend! I was crushing the snails for my angelfish, but that seemed to make them reproduce even faster. Spreading the eggs! Will let you know how it works out. I also tried a dose of copper power green. Its been 5 days, and haven't seen one dead snail.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! My Angelfish spawned and the snails found their eggs and devastated them! I didn't know that snails would eat eggs. :( Now I know I will use your idea to get rid of some of the population. Not many in the Angel's tank but my other tanks have a good sized population of them.
Good luck. Try different foods as bait. Also, the hole in the cap has to be larger than the fattest part of the snail in order for them to get in. Also, don't feed the tank any food for a day or two prior to adding the trap. If they're not hungry, they have no reason to go after the bait. ;)
better to drill the holes in the bottle caps before cutting the bottles down, gives you the whole bottle to hold on to that way and you dont have to worry about accidentally drilling through the table top
Helpful, but could've used some extra editing. 14 minutes seems 10 minutes too long.
I gonna make the trap right now, thanks for the help, can you tell me all kind of fishes do you have in your tank? BTW you have a amazing tank !
Thank you. Currently in the tank are Rummy Nose Tetras, 2 Blue Angels, 3 Discus, And a couple Cory Cats.
is the snails automatically flourish
Nice one bro. :)
YOUR AQUARIUM IS FERPLAST 110 PROF?
It works better if you just take off the caps
this is off topic, lol, but im easily distracted... and dying to know- What is the Pleco stuck on the out side of your tank?????
I just noticed that. lol. I wanna get a decoration like that for my house
1984Sarahanne sorry, I just saw this. www.greenpleco.com/
thanks! i need one lol
What is that plant infront of the trap the thin kind of one that's spread everywhere
Sorry, I just saw this. I believe you're talking about the Crinum Calimastratum.
Idk why i watched this. I don’t even a have a tank
Because it’s all fascinating!
jayme plester i guess it is
Bet you do now.
hi Joel. can u tell me the name of this type cryptocoryne in the left front side? :)
Sorry,, I just saw this. That is a crypt Wendi. It was a spectacular specimen but if fizzled out. :(
I wish you would show the results
I'm sorry, my English is not very good and I don't understand what you put inside the bottle?
Thanks.
Pebbles and bait.
I felt bad for him so i subbed but turned off notification
Who came here from collegehumors liked vids?
Same. Not sure why this is here.
Nooope!
This is a very good improvement on the snails traps with just one side open. But, the method to drill the caps is very unsafe. What you need to do is keep the cap directly on the floor or even on the wood, use a hammer and nail to make a dent, then if you keep it on the floor and put some force u dont have to hold the cap at all, can drill it, but use short burts to make the dent bigger first
Or flip the bottle ends upside down and drill till you hit wood instead of almost taking off fingers
Hey Man where did you get that pleko toy???
Daniel Barrios Romero www.greenpleco.com/
Thanks Charlie sheen !!
Send me your snails. My Pea Puffer's are hungry.
i have ghost Shrimp would they get stuck in the trap?
I would imagine so... just pick them out when you empty the trap.
nice fishtank. btw, I got snails in my fishtank, without adding anything new. Do you know perhaps how this happened?
No new plants or anything? How long has it been since you added anything? One or two could have been added a long time ago and it takes a while for them to get large enough to reproduce and notice them.
They could of been hiding in your filter from the beginning
+Joel101R Thanks. I didn't know that. I have actually been planning on getting some clown loaches because I've heard they eat snail's, also I always wanted those fish.
Might want to get your pleco inside the tank before he dries out
Assassin snails are great. They spend their life hunting down other snails and eating them and they will not eat your plants. Cool trap, good idea.
Could I use a Strawberry?
I want more of these fish in my aquarium.I just want they look amazing so go to a pond and took somw then put them in my aquarium maybe a one laid because i saw babies😄.I need them because i have small tanks with no maintainace and it gets the little tiny worms on the glass they eat it yey!
I want to catch snails or slugs😂
Sure , it's awesome trap for these fish tanks. But what about the ones who are planted and filled with cherry shrimps?
Don't have an answer for ya.
Thanks for your tips. Great vid. Will be introducing your idea into my tank tomorrow. OK, "Liked and subscribed!" So tell me, why do most American CZcams vids call virtually every piece of timber a 2" x 4"? hehe. With respect, that is nothing like a 2'x 4'!!
Mark Mc actually it was i use them everyday
Doesn't plastic kill fish or no?
+Kelsey and panda the plastic used in these bottles are food service grade so no they wont leech anything harmful into the water..
Does it kill the snail ??
+Cara Hutchings The trap does not kill the snail.
3:50 worst cutting safety I’ve ever seen but good trap lol
will assassin snails eat trumpet snails? mine seem to leave them alone.
+Crystal Scott They do but you'd need a good group if you have a lot of trumpets.
Ok thanks
Yoyo loach would do the thing in eating the snail
I had 100's, After 4 days almost gone. Good work dude.
Awesome! Thank you for letting me know. :)
1:12 do the snails die😢
Works bigger snail but not baby ones
Who has a dental kit at home? Has anyone seen my poker, scraper or Gouger?
I split my pinki finger open when I was poking the hole with sisers
loaches get full and only eat so many Corydoras and gold barbs and assassin snails carry them all except the assassin snails and can only get them to eat so many
This trap kills small fish if left unattended
your goldfish will eat most snails, if they are big enough, i move snails from my 2 tanks without a goldfish into the 3 other tanks i have with goldfish and they all vanish pretty quickly, so fast i cant keep a minimum cleaning population except for a few full grown rams and trumpets, but all the adolescents, they suck them right out of shells or just suck babys off glass and eat them whole
UNSAFE…my lovely betta went in the trap & perished😥
Don't need a trap, just keep removing the small ones before breeding maturity.
mines didn't work😂😂😂😂
It takes some playing with to find the right bait. The size of the holes in the caps is something you need to play with too.
I did that all that
Didn't catch not one snail
But thanks a lot
Try not feeding the tank for a couple days prior. They'll get nice & hungry and you should have better luck.
That is to much fish for that tank
It's been going strong for 3 years. Between the plants & weekly water changes, the stock is fine.
Shut up, clearly it's not overstocked.
Not tryna diss or anything, but why do americans always say Im a 'go ahead' and do this or 'go ahead' and do that... it seems like you could say the same sentences every time without adding those two words.
They have killed 3 of our fish
Snails killed your fish? Did you witness this? Please describe how.
lol why not put clown loach into there, they eat snails
It's Ya Boi Daniel will the clown loach eat my shrimp?
@@jflabarre4569 Probably.
How to kill the snails in the aquarium, with a battery of 4.5V - find my video!
wow that is brilliant, but why would you like it .
they eat eggs of the fish
I just found that out! They ate my Angelfish's eggs yesterday. :(
made me sad...
Plastik is not gut for akwarium fisch
Kavitha Nadella
sounds very germanized :P
Nur aquarium hättest du wenigstes richtig schreiben können, das ist so wie im Deutschen ;) Das Flaschenplasik wird wohl kaum Stoffe ans Wasser abgeben, man trinkt da ja auch draus. Höchstens das Gummiband könnte vielleicht schädlich sein, aber man kann ja auch nen anderen Faden verwenden...
but it's safe enough for us to drink from...... hmmmm
That's what I told her in german :P
Thank you. :)
+I wow, I only know "NIEN!"
Dude you taken 14 mins for a video which can be made in 2 mins