How To Get Rid Of Snails In Your Fish Tank FOREVER!!!
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2019
- Do you you want to get rid of snails in your fish tank? This video if for you!!
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Thank you. I didnt know that. I will check out your store today. I have never bought plants online, but we have some corydora babies (they are about 3 weeks old now) and I would love some plants for their new tank.
Bro you could have put one koi fish in there it would have ate them in dew days .
I got the plants from petsmart (culture ones that come in the packages). A couple weeks later, pond snail. Picked him out. Thought I was good. It was only one.....now tons! Help me..lol.
😟 oh no....
Just put cucumber in the tank ,the next morning many snail will gather there ,then take em out with the cucumber 😁
@@kittycatzz7341 really?! I will try that for sure. Thanks ♥️😁
@@LADYSILVERWOLF028 did it work??
@@pedroprospero6307 it helped a lot! But we ended up taking everything out, carefully cleaning all the plants, leaf by leaf, scrubbed the drift wood and completely changed the gravel. That seems to have done the trick.
My husband and I are dealing with this now. He was sold Mystery Snails and they were not! And they are in all three of our tanks! Fun times!
Oh no 😬 good luck, you can get rid of them 👍
I thought mystery snails were huge and kinda hard to miss
@@paintednpierced4469 idk but we didn't have the problem till he purchased them from pet supply plus. When we took them back with all the others we could get they said that's what they were and they were not sure what happened.
Nice video, I use Malaysian Snails and Ramshorn Snails to keep my tanks clean. They are not only good for cleaning the algae up but also eat up any excess food so the shrimp don't over-feed. I made a channel to show you can make low-maintenance, small planted aquariums out of glass bottles and I keep a few shrimp and snails in a glass drinks dispenser!
Thank you, and awesome I’ll give your channel a look! 🍻
Thanks this is great this deserves more likes
😊
Snails suddenly started to appear in my guppy tank and I thought of feeding them to the bigger fish but I feel bad so I started raising snails in a small jar now I just wanna take care of ‘em. I transfer them to bigger tanks when they get older.
Nothing wrong with that! Snails are cool too.
Interesting Video, observed that Danios help in regulating the snail population by eating the really tiny ones. They have been controlling the snail population in a mini pond placed outside. :)
Ive noticed that too, the one exception is with limpets. Those little guys are difficult for fish to peel off the glass because they are so flat! I absolutely dispise limpets 😠
My brother had a very simple solution to keep the snail population under control he would crush one snail and drop it to the bottom of the tank for food every day 365 days a year
I do this every time I see one 😂
Seapora Snail Zap works great. I haven't had snails in my 55 gallon tank for over 2 years now. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!
This works 100%? I bought plants from a store and it ruined my tank, had snails. I pulled my tank apart bleached and boiled everything it took 8 God damn hours and they somehow came back?!? It's seriously as cheap as $5?
It will work for adults but you won’t get the eggs. I would be willing to work they will keep coming back and you’ll never get rid of them with any kind of trap. My 2 cents anyway.
Gotta dry everything out thoroughly aquatic snails won’t survive desiccation. Gotta make sure to dry literally everything. 👍
I leave snails to it, all my tanks have them. One of my tanks has hydra while the other has limpets as well. Their not harmful, and tend to only overpopulate when their getting a large amount of food. I do have no doubt my Platystacus cotylephorus and Bunocephalus spp. pick at the snails though. Their all part of a natural ecosystem :)
Absolutely, I love snails too (pond snails and bladder snails)! Very important to a healthy system. However, I hate limpets and mini ramshorn snails, I just don’t like how those varieties look, and they have a tendency to overpopulate easily as compared to pond/bladder snails. Thanks for watching!
They clog my filter 😞
"they're"
@@JimA-pp2nu no
For everyone watching I have a much simpler solution that doesn't involve doing any of this just put some food on a dish of some sort all the snails will migrate to the food take the dish out with all the snails on it and dispose of the blob of snails on the dish rinse and repeat for best results
Yes that will help keep the numbers down but won’t get rid of them entirely unless there’s just a few. 🐌
cool artwork of that tree!
I had blader snails go crazy after buying some floating plants for my 29-gallon tank. I picked up a couple yoyo loaches and half were gone the first day and none were visible by day 5. I was shocked at the results as I assumed they were strictly bottom feeders, but they went over my plants with a fine-toothed comb.
Hey Will! Thanks for the vid! I'm new to the hobby and was wondering, are snails in general bad for a tank? I thought they ate algae...could there be negatives to them besides over populating a tank? I have two in my tank by accident and am now worried
The main negative with snails is cosmetic. If you don’t mind seeing them then they typically bring more benefit than harm. I typically actually have snails on my setups to help breakdown dead or dying leaves, uneaten fish food, etc.
They DO eat algae and there is always a lot of algae in a fish tank so...they have lots of food! They do not eliminate algae which is what most people think will happen when they have snails. Surprise! They just landed in snail heaven and will propagate all over the place by laying eggs in places under the gravel where fish can not get them. Have fun!
What about if snails or eggs come out in the water (the water you're transferring to the new tank)? How can we make sure there are no snails/eggs in the water?
Will Cupramine (Seachem) get rid of snail in the aquarium, safetly?
You have excellent DSL!
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lmaooooo. wow
@@erikm8372 Iol based on your response I ran a quick urban dictionary search. Now I understand 😂
Small snails a quarter of my finger nail size have appeared in my tropical freshwater tank...where did they come from and how do i get rid of them. They have flat shells
Those are likely limpets. Unfortunately you will likely need to take down the tank, let everything dry out completely and then restart.
I have a ton of snails and i swear they mess up my pH so much and just make my tank look horrible
Have no fear, you can get rid of them!
catch em and cook them
Loaches eat snails
that happened to me too! The place where I bought my plants said they had quarantined the plants. THEY WERE SO WRONG. Now I have an infestation and my betta just died from the pH level :/
Any idea if fluorite substrate can be saved without piggybacking the mini ramshorn snails? Is there a temperature they can't survive in for long? My tank is currently torn down with everything cleaned, wiped, and drying. The piece of driftwood dried for a couple days, and today, I rinsed it as well as the substrate with a garden hose, both now in my garage inside a large bucket. The substrate is damp still, and I'm not sure how to fully dry it or if it's even worth it.
I have pee pads, I'm going to spread my gravel on it, and let it dry out
I find if I can eliminate snails within the first few weeks all is good. Manual removal. You have to be committed to acheive this. If after a few weeks you have snails, it is game over for me!
Thanks for the video, i have a massive infestation of mini rams horn.
Good luck in your fight! You can win! Just need to be diligent 💪
I use a turkey baster and an empty water bottle to get out pest snails. Definitely my preferred method.
Hey, if you have a canister filter attached to your tank, do you think that they are in there?
100%
Without a doubt
Is it safe to use in a shrimp tank?
If I clean my sand with boiling hot water will it kill the eggs and snails? I have 10 gallon with hundreds of pond and ram snails I think idk but yeah
Yup! That will definitely take care of them!
I had A LOT of mystery snails in my tank a couple of months ago and they were completely taking over, i even had to scoop them out every other day because it was awful, i have a big community tank and decided to get myself some goldfish which actually made my snail problen go away, they ate almost every single one of them, and whenever they reproduce, they eat them all again, so I guess that could be a solution as well.
Definitely! Lots of fish will eat snails! Just gotta make sure that the fish are appropriate for the tank 👍
Good idea
or get a puffer fish :)
What would you do with filter sponges
Hey there how’s go with I’m the snails ? And the other question for you. ,how do you like the fluval mano led lights plants spectrum ? Please advise
What did you ask?
Dramatic Experiment oh sorry , I was asking how did you take off the snails in your aquarium
Wont pond snails over populate? Cause im new to the hobby and my bubby says pond snails breed very quickly and over populate fast and just take over the entire tank.
I am now have a pond snail problem and cant get rid of them. And now im finding them in my brand new 30 gallon 😓. I dont want to tare down my entire tank
Another simple alternative for lazy people would be to use draft puffer fish they would eat them all in 2-3 weeks
Ive never kept puffers! Ive heard they can be pretty efficient though :)
What type of puffers ? Pea puffer ?
Ya i did that my pea puffer is the best he cleaned my betta tank up in 2 days
@kitties nd my baby um they arent schooling fish yes they can live together but if u want to keep more than one yes u need a 20 gallon but if u only want one u can just keep in 5 to 10 gallon
@CherriesA They aren't schooling fish. In fact they are territorial fish that you shouldn't keep together. It's like keeping two male betas together. You shouldn't do it.
I dont understand why people want to eliminate the very best cleaners you can ask for....I can see wanting to control numbers, but if you keep feeding to a minimum, birth rates will slow in accordance to the food source the aquarium provides. And Ive got Rams Horns.....if they do start getting too large in numbers, Ill remove them manually. So far that hasnt happened.
Damn that seems like a lot of work... especially since I have a 125. I might just try some Amazon puffers. Any experience with those?
It is a lot of work for sure! I haven't kept puffers myself so I can't say! Good luck. Hope you're doing well, August!
Get some pea puffers and a few yoyo loaches. They will completely exterminate your snails in a short amount of time.
So a serious question.
How did my shrimp tank get bladder and ramshorn snails in it?
Backstory....
I haven't had ANY of those in my tank for 6 months. I've had trumpet snails and shrimp. I just recently saw bladder and RH snails in there. Literally the only thing different is i got my Indian almond leafs from a different vendor. The leaf was boiled for almost 3 min then put in.
So, how is this happening?? Is it from the leaf? If so how when i boiled it....
Hard to say! Could be that you had snails all along but no food source for them to really grow. Now you might have enough food that you are seeing them grow. Good luck!
@@AquariumPlantLab I will say that in the 6 month timeframe that my algae and plant life is getting crazy.... Especially the algae and decayed plant matter.... Crazy how eggs can just idk i guess hibernate that long?
Do you think I could move my betta to a new tank and strip my current tank?
Edit: A bladder snail appeared and now there’s babies, helppppp
uh oh! You should be able to do this. Just stay on top of your water changes (perhaps daily), feed very lightly, use some old tank water to jump start the new tank cycle. Test the new tank regularly until a cycle is established.
my name is wil, and i got so confused when you said our name 😂 i took my headphones off like wot
Hahaha 🤣
What about the soil? Should we get a new batch?
You can either let your substrate completely dry out, or you can replace it. 👍
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I don't do all that. Salt, common table salt. Take your fish out of the tank, and live plants as well. I leave my artificial plants and plastic decorations in the tank. Pour alot of salt in the tank water and leave it to soak a day or two. Dump the water and rinse well, I find that magic erasers work great on the tank glass. Use an old toothbrush to scrub decorations and that's that. Think about it, what do you have if you take a snails shell off of it? A slug, what dissolves slugs? Yup, salt. Salt liquifies a snail right inside its shell. Dead dead dead. No more snails.
Hello I’ve just got a tank in my room and I am getting my fish on Sunday I have 4 live plants and I have noticed some snails sliding on my glass should I wait until next week to put my fish on it put my fish in with the snails? Plz reply I need to know 😂
Best to let a tank mature for awhile before adding fish. You can go ahead and add them if you have to, just feed lightly and make sure to do regular water changes until your beneficial bacteria colony is established! Good luck!
Thank you
They ate all of my plant wished i watch this video sooner:((
Glad you found it useful! I would take a look at your environment for plants though. Snails are detritivores, this means they only eat dead or decaying organic matter. They don’t eat healthy plants. So something else likely caused your plant to die and the snails just ate the dead/dying plant. Water parameters, lighting, and nutrient availability are the main things to cause plants to die back. 🌱
What to do call again that small white snails? I have them in my tank aswell.
They are called limpets! I hate those things...
You know I feel like you could make a good buck, you know minus the gravel and stuff, just slap some water back in the tank, let the snails hatch, don't feed them a thing.
then take the batch to the local fish store?
I saw some small clear jelly eggs on a guava leaf i put inside my aquarium. The part of the leaf they stuck to turned orange. I'm guessing these are snails cause I can't find any other explanation on what they can be. Altho I cant find any in my tank. Whats weird is I found another one on a guava leaf I put in a separate container where I put my platy for quarantine. So now I'm confused as to what it is since there is clearly no snails in that small container. Is this fungus from the leaf or something?
Hard to say without seeing it. Unless they were taken from an aquatic environment then unlikely they are aquatic snails. More likely some other sort of terrestrial creature such as terrestrial snails, slugs, frog eggs, or as you mentioned some sort of fungus! Always a good idea to give collected items a quick bake before adding them in 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab it had white stuff on it which I'm guessing was mold or fungus. But I cleaned it thoroughly, got the white stuff out and boiled it for 5 min. Could anything have survived that including fungus?
If you boiled you should be good to go thumbs up 👍
So I have four guppies and one snail. My family really made sure that we wouldn't have a snail infestation. But now, one day ago, we saw two baby snails climbing the wall...they were so small!!!!! we took out the babies and put them in jars but r afraid that there r more babies......
We rlly love our original snail and even named it Speedy... if we want to make sure that there are no more babies but not kill Speedy, what should we do????
Hopefully you were able to remove them all! keep a close eye on it for awhile :)
If you enjoy having the sail I would recommend setting up a separate tank for the snail to avoid getting an outbreak in your tank again 👍
I hope you see this question! What do you do with the water and substrate that you took out of the infested tank?? Can I put it down the drain? I feel like that’d infest everything 😖
I’ll be honest, I have no clue! But I doubt snails would survive in the drain. Hot water, soap, chemicals. Would by a tough place to survive!
NW Aquahobby Cool, thank you!
I don't mind the ramshorn snails in and of themselves, it's the sheer volume that I don't like. But I got some assassin snails and the numbers are on the decline. It didn't happen quickly but it is happening. I'm going to get more assassin snails.
There is another way. Maybe not for everyone. Move all your fish to different tank. If you have CO2. Pump up your CO2 for an hour. This is the way I terminated the snails on my tank.
I never would have thought of that! Makes sense :)
How does that kill them! Sounds easy. Would it kill plants?
@@Tigglebitties it won't kill the plants. The plants love CO2. Just keep the aquarium light on.
I just starve the limpets out, went from hundreds to a manageable amount that I could just crush or pick out in little over a month
OR you can buy a pea puffer and never have to feed him. That would have been a perfect pea puffer tank. Also add an Otocinclus to clean up leftovers.
Me: _has snail and loves him_
Also me: watches this vid ;-; oop my child brothers and sisters
😂
Oop :>
i got the same floating plants and they apparently had snail eggs inside of the container and now it’s infested
Oh no!
Do you have a video on getting rid of duckweed without harm to other aquarium plants ?
No video on that but I’ve done it many times. It’s really not that difficult in my opinion. Here’s what I do:
Remove as much as possible with a large fish net. Then use a credit card or similar to scrape any duckweed stuck to the glass down into the water. Use your fish net again to get all of the duckweed you can visually see on the surface. The next day check for any more and remove. Check the glass. Check everyday for a week or two and remove anything that you find. You should be able to get it all without too much issue. If you miss a few and don’t keep after it then it will repopulate.
That’s about it. I love duckweed and have it in most of my personal tanks but every now and then I switch things up and remove it. Never had an issue getting rid of it. Maybe I should make a video on this 🤔
@@AquariumPlantLab please do make a video if you have time or people interested, I’d love to watch it!! I learn so much from you, I’m aspiring to build a farm like you have. You taught me how to seed and propagate in one video and I don’t think you meant to 😂
As far as the duckweed goes, I do love the look of it but my stem plants have been getting their sunlight sucked up by the duckweed, and my red root floaters are also getting overtaken by them. They were honestly a great surprise I bought red root floaters and got duckweed with them, decided to keep them but just need to learn how to keep the population low and keep it from killing my other plants.
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comment !
I've done that and more. They always came back. I'm thinking one has to throw away all decor. Quarantine fish in a separate tank for at least a month while cycling the original snail infested tank.
Get some Clown Loaches or Koi Carp. They love to eat these snails and you'll have none left in your fish tank or pond.
The only way to have snail free plants is tissue culture or dipping and quarantining plants. All plants in the stores have snails. It's just how it is. Nature.
Yoyo loach can do the job..
indeed!
Pea puffers!
Yea buddy!
I just sold my puffers;(
@VB 23 my nano tank is infested with these mini ramshorn bastards. Nothing kills them off. I've use YoYo loaches, Zebra loaches, and Assassin snails and found is these predators prefer larger snails. Mini snails are not their desire.
Theres so many small snails living inside my gravel it's impossible to get rid of them. It started off with just 1 when i got a plant now no matter how many i remove another one comes out from the under the gravel. I got too many shrimp in the tank so taking down the tank is impossible
If you can't take it down and start over then you may be stuck with them unfortunately 😭
I took down the whole tank and replaced the gravel..I pray i never have to do it again it took my 3 hours
@@Brock-Lesnar-WWE Are they back?
@@noudialp I had changed my rock 2mm gravel to shrimp 0.5mm rock gravel. I took out the java fern it was attached to a coconut and i washed the whole tank and scrubbed it and made sure it was completely clean and empty tank then i put in new gravel and put the coconut java fern back in and few days later i saw 2 snails again... I think they was on the coconut but i killed them both and now theres no snails left
@@Brock-Lesnar-WWE Well, that's good ne2s. Hope they never pop up :)
I'm too lazy to clean the tank. Will wait until it's full of snails :D
Just a snail for a tank and two more just popped up
Pull them all out now and you might get them under control! You don’t want any eggs!
What will happen if I let them stay??? I had just one and I checked then there was 12 😟 can I let them stay or will they make hundreds? I dont want to kill them 😢
I have a 29 gallon
Hard to say! Most species of snails will start to self control their population, however, if you over feed then they will overpopulate. Make sure you don’t have too much algae and that you only feed your fish as much as they need. Good luck!! 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab I have 2 mystery snails and algae eater fish as well theres not much alge
Awesome, feed sparingly and you shouldn’t have too much of a problem! Unless you have limpets...
kill them now before its too late i now have 100 snails because i waited too long KILL THEM WHILE YOU CAN
These snails are everywhere
They are like an army!
i have an insane amount of snails in my 10 gallon with my pearl & opaline gourami (yes i know how it sounds but they actually do well together haha) but the snails are driving me insane because they multiply exponentially (and i do NOT like creatures so small that i can’t see them 💀
I bought 4 assassin snails, now rescuing the Malaysian and ramshorn snails for use as feeders. Bumblebee snails are a cute addition
Use alge flex it will also kill snails.
I treat with no planaia to keep snail population in check
Hey I’ll keep that in mind! Thanks for the comment!
Was trying to breed Betta fish got a snail tank instead.
oh no 😂
i co0ked my gravel cleaned the tank with soap and gravel i super cleaned everything only to find these damn snails somehow survived what the fuck.........
oh no 🤦♂️
Thousands man, thousands.
You can win the fight. I believe in you!
Hey, why don't u just bring your little tank to the tub and spray it with water? Isn't easier to clean it?
I have this problem but I have 10 big fish and my tank is 200 gallons
Dude, I'm sorry to hear that....
@@AquariumPlantLab yeah my wood and glass is covered I. Rhem
You got planarians, too.
how do I know what kind of snails I have?
Do a google search for common aquarium snails a list with photos should pop up. 🌱
I got snails after 2 weeks of having it! Must of been from the fish. 😞
oh no!
I bleached my plants, bleached and boiled my gravel - guess what....12 months laters the snails are back. Nothings been introduced into the take. I give up.
😢 I feel for you!!!
Assassin snails 😊and anything with copper in it might kill em
You just got schedule every two months or so to clean that tank on a regular basis.
Are these invasive snails harmless to plants?
Pretty much! Just an eyesore to some.
They look like herpes but on the bright side. Massive improvement on hair algae control. My rocks are almost clear except with occasional streaks
The ramshorn snails tore up my plants. A nightmare to completely eliminate.
Help, I’ve cleaned my tank. Boiled my gravel, bleach dipped my items and plants. I have no snails but I’m still getting white eggs appearing on my glass. I have neons, Ottos, rummy nose, harlequins and silver fire fox. Where are these eggs coming from?
Hard to say without seeing them! Have any snails hatched?
Snails suck Lol. Unless you want them, then they’re cool haha 😂
I think I have the same problem as you
Hey! What happened to the eggs? Are snails back?
I have alot of snails in my fish tank
Oh no!!!! May the force be with you...
Well shoot I was here to kill pond snails but now I feel bad. 🤦🏻♀️
Haha, you don't have to get rid of them! Snails do serve a great purpose in aquariums.
Isn't there a SNAIL EATER I can just add for a while ????
Snail eaters will certainly help! They are unlikely to completely eliminate snails though. Some types of snails, like limpets, are pretty safe from snail eaters.
Clown Loach
I never ever bought snails but all the sudden there are these very small snails out of nowhere first it was a few and I was very confused now they are everywhere what do I do
If you don't want them then you will need to go through the process outlined in the video. They probably came in on plants or other materials you added to the tank. Just one egg is all you need to get them going in a tank 😔
Put in an assassin snail for a while and it will take care of it for you!
Clown loaches will eat snails as will a few other fish..
This is definitely true! I don't like to buy fish to treat problems though, as I like to keep single species tanks, but this is certainly an option for folks.
"How to get rid of snaIls : Destroy the whole damn tank."
Right..
Pretty much, or live with them 👍
I crush them on the glass and then the fish eat them
Will ramshorns eat my goldfish eggs?
Why would i wanna getvrid of the adorableness that is baby snails? 🐌
To each their own! I like some varieties of snails but the ones covered in this video bother me for some reason 😂
@@AquariumPlantLab oh XD btw i like ur videos :3
Flourish excel kills all snails
Will they kill my fishes
Generally nope!
Just enlist the help of a few puffers. Problem solved naturally.
how do snails get in a tank?
They usually come in as "hitchhikers" on plants, substrate, or in fish bags.
But that's not the only way is it
Just get rid of the thing entirely 😂
Why do you what to get rid of snails snails are endergerd
I’m pretty sure these species of snails are far from endangered.
WEAR GLOVES DOING ANY TANK CLEANING!! SNAILS 🐌 HAVE PARASITES 😮
Kk xxxxxxx
GET RID OF SNAILS? Why???????
The snails killed ur betta buddy
Ambushed in the night 🤣
Whattttt!!!!! Snail are breeding in my betta tanks ( 2 )
Snails won’t kill your Betta fish :)
I was incredibly frustrated buying new aquarium with 4 live plants as it is my intention to NOT house any creatures to clear my reality space of dual existence liars who I can't stand being too familiar with me on their rude terms, and from PetCo's filthy plant holding tank I had 2 additional snail organisms that illegally used my tank and that will eventually rely on me, steal focus of others, and be burden to me all without my consent. Sorry, but I'm calling, "evicted" I am the main head, and I didn't approve of another season of overconfident maters behind my back, claiming not to know me, never, not on my dime. What relies on me better acknowledge me, because I am the bane of their ushered in existence, more than they ever were alone, and I'm no longer seeing them as anything else than free ride moochers that I owe nothing to, And that they owe me, god made them grovel in this form because thats what they rendered from in my empty tank, and thats not their home, nothing will, because they intruded. I'm not fostering any hell on earth scenario where perceived helpless justify unhealthy codependency on me never learning, never growing, spoiled from me because of their access to the world and its fleeting worldly loyalties, leaving me for false all over again. I know what comes next, and its wiser I'd rid myself of a bad time sooner than later getting falsely over invested.
Are we still talking about snails?
Wtf are you talking about????
@@bec3057 I think this is about eviction papers have been served to the unwanted squatters.